neighbourhood in Enschede
Stroinkslanden Noord-West
2,395 residents · postal code 7542 · Part of Enschede-Zuid, Enschede
Safe streets, thinner wallets
In Stroinkslanden Noord-West both the highest and the lowest income group are thinner than nationally. That does not mean the neighbourhood is narrow, but rather broad in the middle: few outliers upwards, few downwards, and a social assistance rate that stays far below the national level. The 5.9 for wealth & income comes mainly from property value, which is below the median.
The 9.4 for safety rests on all offence types at once; not one rises above the national median, and property crime stalls at a third of it.
The families score of 9.2 is backed by the population: almost half of households have children and the primary school is eight hundred metres away.
- no. 915 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 4 of 67 in Enschede
How Stroinkslanden Noord-West scores
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Is Stroinkslanden Noord-West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Stroinkslanden Noord-West comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Stroinkslanden Noord-West is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest 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, 33 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
Stroinkslanden Noord-West has strikingly many children under 15: 19%, against 14% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1519%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4525%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+19%
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
25% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
45% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,741 — 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 Stroinkslanden Noord-West a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Stroinkslanden Noord-West comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Stroinkslanden Noord-West is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Stroinkslanden Noord-West?
In Stroinkslanden Noord-West the police recorded 33 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (14 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 Stroinkslanden Noord-West calculated?
Stroinkslanden Noord-West scores 9.5 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 Stroinkslanden Noord-West 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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