neighbourhood in Enschede
Marssteden
60 residents · postal code 7547 · Part of Bedrijfsterreinen Enschede-West, Enschede
Spacious and quiet, but not set up for children
Sixty residents, forty-two per square kilometre, and a noise exposure of 66 decibels: Marssteden is empty and loud at the same time. That combination is rare and explains why the quiet & nature pillar stops at 7.4 rather than climbing higher — space and greenery count, but so does noise, and fourteen decibels above the national middle cannot be smoothed away.
Three in ten premises here stand empty. That pushes the wealth & income pillar down to 5.0 while property value sits practically on the national median; incomes and social assistance go unpublished here, because there are too few households. For families the sum is simple: supermarket, GP and primary school are all 2.6 kilometres away, and school distance alone makes up nearly a third of that pillar.
- no. 12,442 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 61 of 67 in Enschede
This neighbourhood has few residents; figures are indicative.
How Marssteden scores
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Is Marssteden a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Marssteden comes out at 38 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Marssteden is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 37 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).
Tick = Dutch median
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The figures ⌄Amenities
Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄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.
Not counted
Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Quiet & nature
How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.
Not counted
Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.
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
The figures ⌄Families
How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.
Tick = Dutch median
Who lives here
Marssteden has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 32%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1515%
NL median 14%
- 15–2515%
NL median 11%
- 25–4532%
NL median 22%
- 45–6524%
NL median 28%
- 65+24%
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
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
26% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
26% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
42 — 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 Marssteden a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Marssteden comes out at 38 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Marssteden is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes. One caveat: the figure counts per person present, not per resident. In a neighbourhood with many visitors — a centre, a station, a shopping area — it therefore comes out higher than residents experience. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Marssteden?
In Marssteden the police recorded 37 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (38 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 Marssteden calculated?
Marssteden scores 2.9 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 Marssteden 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.
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