neighbourhood in Hengelo (O.)
Vossenbelt Zuid
2,295 residents · postal code 7559 · Part of Slangenbeek, Hengelo (O.)
Safe, but not spacious
Burglary in Vossenbelt Zuid is all but absent: the figure sits at a fraction of the national median, and violence, vandalism and property crime stay below it too. Four clean figures in a row is rare and explains the 9.7 for safety, one of the highest scores a neighbourhood can reach.
The quiet & nature pillar nonetheless stalls at 4.6, and that is not down to noise — levels here are below the national middle — nor to the trees, which are well above it. It is the building: almost seven thousand residents per square kilometre leave little room, and there is no water in the area at all. Anyone moving here trades a station at cycling distance for a neighbourhood where almost nothing gets reported.
- no. 1,263 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 6 of 53 in Hengelo (O.)
How Vossenbelt Zuid scores
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Is Vossenbelt Zuid a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Vossenbelt Zuid comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Vossenbelt Zuid 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, 30 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 Zuid has strikingly few residents aged 65 and over: 15%, against 22% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1517%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4524%
NL median 22%
- 45–6531%
NL median 28%
- 65+15%
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
27% — fewer than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
43% — more than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
6,673 — 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 Zuid a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Vossenbelt Zuid comes out at 13 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Vossenbelt Zuid 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 Zuid?
In Vossenbelt Zuid the police recorded 30 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 Zuid calculated?
Vossenbelt Zuid scores 9.3 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 Vossenbelt Zuid 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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