neighbourhood in Enschede

Pathmos

1,960 residents · postal code 7545 · Part of Boswinkel - Stadsveld, Enschede

Bottom 12% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little space

One in every seven homes in Pathmos is owner-occupied; the rest are rented, mostly from a housing association. Yet that fact barely carries the wealth & income pillar — ownership and association renting together make up a tenth of it. What does make the 2.8: a property value well under half the national middle, more than half of households in the lowest income group and a social assistance rate over eight times the median.

The quiet & nature pillar comes out lower still at 2.6, and there greenery is the culprit. Within three hundred metres barely a quarter of the surroundings is green, well under half the usual national share, at over eight thousand residents per square kilometre. Amenities are not the problem: everything needed day to day is within a kilometre.

no. 11,590 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 52 of 67 in Enschede

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Is Pathmos a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Pathmos comes out at 29 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more 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

28.5 per 1,000

Violent crime

2.2 per 1,000

Burglaries

0.8 per 1,000

Property crime

12.5 per 1,000

Vandalism

3.5 per 1,000

In 2025, 70 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

0.8 km

GP practice

0.9 km

Train station

2.2 km

Restaurant

0.3 km

Hospital

1.8 km

Café

0.5 km

Library

1.5 km

Motorway ramp

2.3 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

€ 235,000

Welfare recipients

66.3 per 1,000

High incomes

Low incomes

54%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

14%

Social housing

82%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

89%

Built after 2000

26%

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

8,167 inw/km²

Noise level

54 dB

Green surroundings

22%

Trees nearby

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

3,199

Fine particles (PM2.5)

8.0 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

0.6 km

Households with children

31%

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

1.5 km

Residents under 15

17%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Pathmos has strikingly many residents aged 25 to 45: 35%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1517%
NL median 14%
15–2512%
NL median 11%
25–4535%
NL median 22%
45–6523%
NL median 28%
65+13%
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
1.9 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
47% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
31% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
8,167 — 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 Pathmos a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Pathmos comes out at 29 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is more than in most Dutch neighbourhoods. 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 Pathmos?

In Pathmos the police recorded 70 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (29 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 Pathmos calculated?

Pathmos scores 3.4 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 Pathmos 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.