neighbourhood in Enschede
Wesselerbrink Noord-Oost
3,775 residents · postal code 7544 · Part of Enschede-Zuid, Enschede
Everything close by, little to spend
The number of social assistance payments per thousand residents in Wesselerbrink Noord-Oost is fifteen times the national median. Together with a property value below half the national median and a very narrow top income group, that explains the 2.6 for wealth & income — vacancy is the one component that does not fit.
What stands against it is striking: amenities score 8.7 and families 8.1. The supermarket, the GP and the primary school are all within six hundred metres, and those distances are precisely what those two pillars measure. This neighbourhood in southern Enschede is not remote; the figures are about income, not about access.
Safety lags behind at 3.0, with every category of offence above the national median.
- no. 11,375 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 48 of 67 in Enschede
How Wesselerbrink Noord-Oost scores
Do some of these matter more to you than others?
Is Wesselerbrink Noord-Oost a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Wesselerbrink Noord-Oost comes out at 48 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Wesselerbrink Noord-Oost 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, 240 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).
Tick = Dutch median
The safest neighbourhoods in Enschede →The most dangerous neighbourhoods in Enschede →
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
Wesselerbrink Noord-Oost has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 14%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1514%
NL median 14%
- 15–2514%
NL median 11%
- 25–4521%
NL median 22%
- 45–6526%
NL median 28%
- 65+24%
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
49% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
27% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,175 — 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 Wesselerbrink Noord-Oost a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Wesselerbrink Noord-Oost comes out at 48 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is high: Wesselerbrink Noord-Oost 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 Wesselerbrink Noord-Oost?
In Wesselerbrink Noord-Oost the police recorded 240 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (48 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 Wesselerbrink Noord-Oost calculated?
Wesselerbrink Noord-Oost scores 3.5 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 Wesselerbrink Noord-Oost 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.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Enschede
Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Enschede.
Highest grades
Lowest grades
More about this area
Nearby neighbourhoods
Stroinkslanden Noord-West
Enschede
Wesselerbrink Zuid-Oost
Enschede
Cromhoffsbleek-Kotman
Enschede
Stroinkslanden-Zuid
Enschede
Wesselerbrink Noord-West
Enschede
Wesselerbrink Zuid-West
Enschede