district in Enschede
Boswinkel - Stadsveld
Boswinkel - Stadsveld has 9 neighbourhoods with 22,035 residents in total.
Boswinkel-Stadsveld bundles Enschede's post-war western edge, nine neighbourhoods and just over 22,000 residents around Pathmos and Stadsveld-Zuid. Amenities reach 8.6, with the city a bike ride away. Set against that, wealth and income stay at 3.6, safety at 4.5 and quiet and nature at 3.7. The overall lands at 4.4: a mixed, somewhat dated working-class district where the convenience of amenities fails to offset the gap.
no. 7 of the 10 districts of Enschede
Short answer: Boswinkel - Stadsveld scores 4.4 as a district of Enschede, no. 7 of the 10 districts of Enschede. Its strongest neighbourhood is 't Zwering (9.3), the worst Elferink-Heuwkamp (3.0). The district has 9 neighbourhoods with 22,035 residents in total.
Key figures for Boswinkel - Stadsveld
- residents
- 22,035
- neighbourhoods
- 9
- km² of land
- 4.5
How Boswinkel - Stadsveld scores
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The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 1,051 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
Boswinkel - Stadsveld has strikingly many young people aged 15 to 25: 15%, against 11% in the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1514%
NL median 14%
- 15–2515%
NL median 11%
- 25–4529%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+16%
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
1.9 — smaller than average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
47% — far more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
28% — fewer than average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
5,726 — 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. Average of the neighbourhoods in Boswinkel - Stadsveld, weighted by population.
The best and worst neighbourhoods of Boswinkel - Stadsveld
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Neighbourhoods in Boswinkel - Stadsveld
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