1079 Postcode — Amsterdam, North Holland

English Nederlands

4-digit postcode 1079 covers Amsterdam, North Holland. Dutch postcodes are four digits and two letters. The four digits identify a delivery area, and it is the level Statistics Netherlands publishes against, so the figures below describe this postcode itself rather than the town around it.

Residents: 14,425
Households: 8,670
Average property value: €530,000
Owner-occupied: 20%
Average household size: 1.6
Urbanity: Very strongly urban

Where 1079 is

Amsterdam, North Holland — the point recorded for this postal code. It marks the centre of the code, not its boundary.

People

Residents	14,425
Men	6,800
Women	7,625
Under 15	1,435
15 to 25	1,585
25 to 45	6,260
45 to 65	2,860
65 and over	2,285
Born abroad, in Europe	10%
Born abroad, outside Europe	20%

Households

Households	8,670
Average size	1.6
One-person households	56.4%4,890
Couples without children	2,330
One-parent families	6.6%570
Two-parent families	885

Housing

Homes	8,675
Average property value (WOZ)	€530,000
Owner-occupied	20%
Rented	80%
Housing-association homes	2,860
Flats and shared buildings	98.6%8,550
Built before 1945	77.8%6,745
Unoccupied	9.4%815

Area

Addresses per square kilometre	6,168
Urbanity	Very strongly urban
Residents on unemployment, disability or income support	8.5%1,230

Against the national median

The tick is the national median.

Housing

Owner-occupied	20%
Rented	80%
Flats and shared buildings	98.6%
Built before 1945	77.8%
Unoccupied	9.4%

Households

One-person households	56.4%
One-parent families	6.6%
Residents on unemployment, disability or income support	8.5%

Age bands

Under 15	9.94801%
15 to 25	10.9879%
25 to 45	43.3969%
45 to 65	19.8267%
65 and over	15.8406%

Figures from Statistics Netherlands (CBS), key figures per postcode, 1 January 2025. CBS withholds figures for areas with too few residents to publish safely, so a missing value here means withheld, not zero.