neighbourhood in Hengelo (O.)
Roershoek
2,370 residents · postal code 7559 · Part of Slangenbeek, Hengelo (O.)
Safe, but few children
Children live in more than a third of Roershoek's households, and yet the families pillar stops at 5.3. That looks contradictory until you see where the primary school is: just over a kilometre away. School distance is by far the heaviest component of that pillar, so anyone living here with young children is not dropping them off around the corner, however many families live next door.
The 8.4 for safety comes from three of the four offence types sitting below the national middle. Burglary is the exception and sits slightly above it. That is a different risk profile from what the overall score suggests: this is not about what happens on the street but about what disappears behind the front door.
The tree canopy is almost twice the national level, and that lifts the quiet & nature pillar in a neighbourhood that, with nearly three thousand residents per square kilometre, is anything but thinly populated.
- no. 3,486 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 12 of 53 in Hengelo (O.)
How Roershoek scores
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Is Roershoek a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Roershoek comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Roershoek 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, 39 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
The age profile of Roershoek looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1512%
NL median 14%
- 15–2511%
NL median 11%
- 25–4518%
NL median 22%
- 45–6534%
NL median 28%
- 65+25%
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
2.4 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
21% — far fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
38% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
2,832 — 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 Roershoek a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Roershoek comes out at 15 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Roershoek 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 Roershoek?
In Roershoek the police recorded 39 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (15 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 Roershoek calculated?
Roershoek scores 8.0 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 Roershoek 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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