neighbourhood in Hengelo (O.)
Dalmeden
1,185 residents · postal code 7559 · Part of Slangenbeek, Hengelo (O.)
Safe, but everything is a drive away
With a 9.9, Dalmeden ranks among the highest-scoring neighbourhoods in the country, and the wealth & income pillar is clearest about why: property values are nearly double the national median, the share of high incomes is well above it, the share of low incomes below it, social assistance does not occur and vacancy is low. Every component points the same way, which rarely happens.
The weak spot is distance. Amenities stops at a 4.5, with the railway station more than five kilometres away, and that carries into the families pillar: the primary school is more than a kilometre off. Even though more than six in ten households here have children, that score stays below what you might expect. Anyone moving here drives or cycles for almost everything.
- no. 235 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 2 of 53 in Hengelo (O.)
How Dalmeden scores
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Is Dalmeden a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Dalmeden comes out at 9 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Dalmeden 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, 5 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
Dalmeden has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 9%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1519%
NL median 14%
- 15–2517%
NL median 11%
- 25–4520%
NL median 22%
- 45–6535%
NL median 28%
- 65+9%
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
3.1 — far larger than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
10% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
62% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
1,134 — far less 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 Dalmeden a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Dalmeden comes out at 9 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Dalmeden 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 Dalmeden?
In Dalmeden the police recorded 5 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (9 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 Dalmeden calculated?
Dalmeden scores 9.9 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 Dalmeden 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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Same total grade, same yardstick — from the top to the bottom of Hengelo (O.).
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