neighbourhood in Enschede

Oikos

2,280 residents · postal code 7534 · Part of Glanerbrug en omgeving, Enschede

Top 29% in the Netherlands

Safe streets, thinner wallets

Oikos is a young neighbourhood: two thirds of the homes were built this century, half of households have children and few residents are 65 or over. That partly explains the 7.6 for families — the primary school is just within a kilometre, and that distance does most of the work in the figure.

The 8.9 for safety rests on three of the four types of offence: violence, burglary and property crime stay below the national middle, burglary at close to zero. Only vandalism rises slightly above, and that is the lightest item in the pillar.

The wealth & income pillar stays at 5.5 while incomes, social assistance and vacancy are all close to or below the national picture. What holds the figure down is the property value. Beyond that it is quiet here for a densely built neighbourhood: the sound level is clearly below the median.

no. 3,704 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 17 of 67 in Enschede

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Is Oikos a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Oikos comes out at 19 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

19.2 per 1,000

Violent crime

1.9 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.1 per 1,000

Property crime

3.7 per 1,000

Vandalism

2.8 per 1,000

In 2025, 50 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

1.4 km

Train station

1.8 km

Restaurant

1.3 km

Hospital

6.5 km

Café

1.5 km

Library

1.6 km

Motorway ramp

2.8 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

€ 343,000

Welfare recipients

8.8 per 1,000

High incomes

18%

Low incomes

36%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

80%

Social housing

14%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

93%

Built after 2000

67%

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

5,491 inw/km²

Noise level

47 dB

Green surroundings

54%

Trees nearby

11%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

979

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.4 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

0.9 km

Households with children

52%

Childcare

0.9 km

Secondary school

4.3 km

Residents under 15

19%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Oikos has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 8%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1519%
NL median 14%
15–2515%
NL median 11%
25–4527%
NL median 22%
45–6532%
NL median 28%
65+8%
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
2.5 — larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
23% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
52% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,491 — far more 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 Oikos a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Oikos comes out at 19 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 Oikos?

In Oikos the police recorded 50 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (19 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 Oikos calculated?

Oikos scores 7.9 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 Oikos 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.