neighbourhood in Enschede
Walhof-Roessingh
2,555 residents · postal code 7522 · Part of Enschede-Noord, Enschede
Everything close by, little to spend
Walhof-Roessingh records over one and a half times as many offences as is nationally usual and still ends up with an 8.3 for safety. The distribution explains that entirely: violence and residential burglary are almost absent here, far below the national median, and the high total is almost wholly down to property crime. Things disappear, people do not.
The wealth & income pillar is the weak point at 4.9, and it is the property value that does it: that is more than a quarter below the median. Incomes themselves are slightly better than the national picture and the rate of social assistance only mildly raised — so this is a matter of house prices, not of poverty.
The amenities are exceptional for a neighbourhood on the northern edge of the city: supermarket, GP and restaurant are all within six hundred metres and the station a kilometre and a half away.
- no. 2,898 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 14 of 67 in Enschede
How Walhof-Roessingh scores
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Is Walhof-Roessingh a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Walhof-Roessingh comes out at 39 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Walhof-Roessingh 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, 144 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
Walhof-Roessingh has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 18%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1513%
NL median 14%
- 15–2518%
NL median 11%
- 25–4530%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+14%
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
49% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
26% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
3,246 — 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 Walhof-Roessingh a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Walhof-Roessingh comes out at 39 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Walhof-Roessingh is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the most recorded crimes. Even so, the safety grade at the top of this page is 8.3. That grade weighs violence and burglary most heavily, and both are low here: of the 39 records per 1,000, 0.4 is violence. What gets counted is mostly theft — the picture of a business park or shopping area, not of an unsafe residential street. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Walhof-Roessingh?
In Walhof-Roessingh the police recorded 144 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (39 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 Walhof-Roessingh calculated?
Walhof-Roessingh scores 8.3 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 Walhof-Roessingh 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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