neighbourhood in Hengelo (O.)
Vossenbelt Noord
2,090 residents · postal code 7559 · Part of Slangenbeek, Hengelo (O.)
Safe, but not spacious
Vossenbelt Noord scores above the middle on four pillars and low on none; the overall figure ranks among the highest thousand in the country. Safety contributes most: all four categories of offence stay far below the national median, vandalism even at less than a third of it.
What stands out is the contrast inside the families pillar. Nearly half of households have children, yet the share of residents under fifteen stays below the national median. The 8.1 therefore leans mainly on the primary school, six hundred metres away.
The restaurant is more than two kilometres off while the supermarket and GP are within seven hundred metres. That single outlier holds amenities at 6.0.
- no. 964 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 4 of 53 in Hengelo (O.)
How Vossenbelt Noord scores
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Is Vossenbelt Noord a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Vossenbelt Noord comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Vossenbelt Noord 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, 27 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
Vossenbelt Noord has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 15%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1513%
NL median 14%
- 15–2515%
NL median 11%
- 25–4519%
NL median 22%
- 45–6535%
NL median 28%
- 65+18%
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
22% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
47% — far more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
4,007 — 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 Vossenbelt Noord a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Vossenbelt Noord comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Vossenbelt Noord 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 Vossenbelt Noord?
In Vossenbelt Noord the police recorded 27 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (13 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 Vossenbelt Noord calculated?
Vossenbelt Noord scores 9.4 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 Vossenbelt Noord 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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