Overijssel · The Netherlands
Enschede population
153,655people · latest figure
Enschede has a population of 153,655, making it the 14th largest place we list in The Netherlands. It is in Overijssel.
Enschede holds 0.83% of The Netherlands's 18,448,775 people. Rotterdam, the largest place we list there, is 5.6 times its size. The World Gazetteer published 153,655 for Enschede in 2005 and GeoNames still carries that same figure, so there is no measured change to report.
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. Why figures differ.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Haarlem | North Holland | 162,543 |
| Arnhem | Gelderland | 162,424 |
| 's-Hertogenbosch | North Brabant | 160,783 |
| Zaanstad | North Holland | 140,085 |
| Amersfoort | Utrecht | 139,914 |
| Apeldoorn | Gelderland | 136,670 |
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Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.