neighbourhood in Enschede

Glanerveld

1,170 residents · postal code 7532 · Part of Glanerbrug en omgeving, Enschede

Top 23% in the Netherlands

Everything for children close by, thinner wallets

Glanerveld pairs a railway station eight hundred metres away with a primary school at three hundred, and those two distances together carry the 9.5 for families and a 7.1 for amenities. For a neighbourhood with under fifteen hundred residents per square kilometre that accessibility is unusually good.

The wealth & income pillar stays at 4.3, and it is a mixed picture no single sentence catches: social assistance here sits practically on the national middle and vacancy below it, but property value lags far behind and more than four in ten households fall in the lowest income group. Property value carries nearly two fifths of that pillar, so that one figure does most of the work. Among the offences only violence rises above the median; burglary is all but absent.

no. 2,885 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 13 of 67 in Enschede

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Is Glanerveld a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Glanerveld comes out at 18 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods.

The figures ⌄

Safety

Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.

Total crime

17.7 per 1,000

Violent crime

3.0 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.2 per 1,000

Property crime

6.7 per 1,000

Vandalism

1.6 per 1,000

In 2025, 23 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).

Tick = Dutch median

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Amenities

Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.

Supermarket

1.2 km

GP practice

1.2 km

Train station

0.8 km

Restaurant

1.2 km

Hospital

6.1 km

Café

0.4 km

Library

1.3 km

Motorway ramp

1.3 km

Tick = Dutch median

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Wealth & income

What the homes are worth, what residents earn and how many homes stand empty. It describes the area, not the people living in it.

Property value

€ 321,000

Welfare recipients

8.5 per 1,000

High incomes

12%

Low incomes

45%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

80%

Social housing

12%

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Single-family homes

89%

Built after 2000

27%

Tick = Dutch median

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Quiet & nature

How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.

Population density

1,389 inw/km²

Noise level

51 dB

Green surroundings

55%

Trees nearby

10%

Water share

Not counted

Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.

Addresses per km²

1,012

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.6 µg/m³

Not part of the grade: air quality varies mostly between regions, barely between neighbourhoods within one municipality. WHO guideline: 5 µg/m³. Calculated annual mean, RIVM 2024.

Tick = Dutch median

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Families

How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.

Primary school

0.3 km

Households with children

41%

Childcare

0.3 km

Secondary school

3.9 km

Residents under 15

15%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

The age profile of Glanerveld looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1515%
NL median 14%
15–2513%
NL median 11%
25–4524%
NL median 22%
45–6528%
NL median 28%
65+19%
NL median 22%

Share of residents per age group (CBS, 2025). All five bars share one scale, so their lengths can be compared with each other.

Average household size
2.4 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
30% — around the average
NL median 31%
Households with children
41% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,389 — far less densely populated than average
NL median 2,364

Tick = Dutch median. Households with children counts towards Families, population density towards Quiet & nature; the other figures here get no grade.

Frequently asked questions

Is Glanerveld a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Glanerveld comes out at 18 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is fewer than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.

How much crime is there in Glanerveld?

In Glanerveld the police recorded 23 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (18 per 1,000) is not simply that count divided by the number of residents: we count residents plus workplaces, so a shopping street or station is not unfairly penalised, and for small counts we pull the figure towards the national average — otherwise a single incident would make a small neighbourhood look unsafe.

How is the grade for Glanerveld calculated?

Glanerveld scores 8.3 as its total score. That grade is a national position: we weigh five equally heavy scores — safety, amenities, wealth & income, quiet & nature and families — and see where Glanerveld lands among every neighbourhood in the Netherlands. So it is not the mean of the five grades, but a place in the queue. All from open data published by CBS and the police.