neighbourhood in Enschede

Stadsveld-Zuid

1,845 residents · postal code 7545 · Part of Boswinkel - Stadsveld, Enschede

Bottom 12% in the Netherlands

Everything close by, little to spend

Theft in Stadsveld-Zuid runs at four times the usual national rate and makes up two thirds of all reported offences. Violence and burglary are above the median too, but the picture is dominated by what disappears. With supermarket, GP, school and restaurant all within four hundred metres this is a busy stretch of town, and that draws this kind of report.

The population lives in small units and few children: over half of households are single-person, one in ten residents is under fifteen and only a third of the homes are single-family. The families pillar still reaching 7.7 comes from the school four hundred metres away — the distance component carries that pillar almost alone here, not the share of children.

no. 11,550 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
no. 51 of 67 in Enschede

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Is Stadsveld-Zuid a safe neighbourhood?

The figures ⌄

Safety

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

Total crime

56.9 per 1,000

Violent crime

3.8 per 1,000

Burglaries

1.6 per 1,000

Property crime

37.8 per 1,000

Vandalism

5.3 per 1,000

In 2025, 140 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

0.3 km

GP practice

0.3 km

Train station

3.0 km

Restaurant

0.3 km

Hospital

2.9 km

Café

1.1 km

Library

0.4 km

Motorway ramp

2.9 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

€ 248,000

Welfare recipients

54.2 per 1,000

High incomes

Low incomes

53%

Vacancy

Owner-occupied

37%

Social housing

45%

Not counted

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

Single-family homes

36%

Built after 2000

20%

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

6,416 inw/km²

Noise level

50 dB

Green surroundings

39%

Trees nearby

11%

Water share

Not counted

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

Addresses per km²

2,496

Fine particles (PM2.5)

7.9 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

0.4 km

Households with children

19%

Childcare

0.4 km

Secondary school

0.4 km

Residents under 15

10%

Tick = Dutch median

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Who lives here

Stadsveld-Zuid has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 17%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.

Age profile

0–1510%
NL median 14%
15–2517%
NL median 11%
25–4529%
NL median 22%
45–6524%
NL median 28%
65+20%
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
1.7 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
55% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
19% — far fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,416 — 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 Stadsveld-Zuid a safe neighbourhood?

For 2025, Stadsveld-Zuid comes out at 57 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Stadsveld-Zuid 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 Stadsveld-Zuid?

In Stadsveld-Zuid the police recorded 140 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (57 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 Stadsveld-Zuid calculated?

Stadsveld-Zuid 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 Stadsveld-Zuid 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.