neighbourhood in Enschede
Roombeek-Roomveldje
4,365 residents · postal code 7523 · Part of Enschede-Noord, Enschede
Everything close by, little space
Six in ten homes in Roombeek-Roomveldje date from after 2000, and it shows in the amenities: at a 9.7 the accessibility is among the best five per cent in the country. Restaurant, supermarket, GP and school are all within five hundred metres.
The safety score of 3.4 hangs on one type. Property offences run at almost four times the national median and account for nearly two thirds of all recorded crime; violence and burglary barely differ. So things disappear here.
The wealth & income pillar, at a 4.2, is harder to read than it looks. The share of high incomes sits exactly on the national median, vacancy slightly above it and the social assistance rate at almost three times the median. So this is not a neighbourhood with one clear profile.
- no. 9,072 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 33 of 67 in Enschede
How Roombeek-Roomveldje scores
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Is Roombeek-Roomveldje a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Roombeek-Roomveldje comes out at 56 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Roombeek-Roomveldje 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, 364 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
Roombeek-Roomveldje has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 17%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1513%
NL median 14%
- 15–2517%
NL median 11%
- 25–4529%
NL median 22%
- 45–6527%
NL median 28%
- 65+15%
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
2.0 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
47% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
28% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,023 — 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 Roombeek-Roomveldje a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Roombeek-Roomveldje comes out at 56 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Roombeek-Roomveldje 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 Roombeek-Roomveldje?
In Roombeek-Roomveldje the police recorded 364 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (56 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 Roombeek-Roomveldje calculated?
Roombeek-Roomveldje scores 4.8 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 Roombeek-Roomveldje 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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