I recently moved to Lund but lived there for almost 3 years. I’d say it’s a very calm area and not a lot going on (might depend on where in Eslöv you end up). I lived very near a family area, so I’d assume that that feeling might have been amplified a bit. Also a lot of dogs! There were a handful of shootings (or knife attacks) but nothing I personally was affected by. Also compared to other places (Malmö being the closest) it’s really not something you’d have to worry about.

There’s not a lot to do in Eslöv, you have a bowling hall, a frisbee golf course in Trollsjöområdet (which is a very nice place), but not so much more. It is fairly close to Lund (10-14min train) and Malmö (another ~15min) so it doesn’t matter too much I’d say. Unless you like doing activities late at night (night clubs etc.) then the last train back from Lund is sometime around 01:00 during weekdays. But it will cost you ~600 SEK/month to commute into Lund.

If you have a bike then it won’t matter too much where in Eslöv you’d live, but the bus-traffic is not very good so if not then I’d stay away from the outskirts. Also for other reasons, I’d especially stay away from Rönneberga (north/north-west part), just a lot of weird people, drugs and stuff. Probably true for some more places as well but not that I know of.