1442 Postcode — Purmerend, North Holland

English Nederlands

4-digit postcode 1442 covers Purmerend, 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: 7,375
Households: 3,710
Average property value: €322,000
Owner-occupied: 50%
Average household size: 2
Urbanity: Very strongly urban

Where 1442 is

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

People

Residents	7,375
Men	3,580
Women	3,795
Under 15	1,070
15 to 25	820
25 to 45	2,190
45 to 65	1,815
65 and over	1,480
Born abroad, in Europe	10%
Born abroad, outside Europe	20%

Households

Households	3,710
Average size	2
One-person households	44.2%1,640
Couples without children	870
One-parent families	14.2%525
Two-parent families	675

Housing

Homes	3,735
Average property value (WOZ)	€322,000
Owner-occupied	50%
Rented	50%
Housing-association homes	1,585
Flats and shared buildings	52.9%1,975
Built before 1945	0.4%15
Unoccupied	3.3%125

Area

Addresses per square kilometre	2,903
Urbanity	Very strongly urban
Residents on unemployment, disability or income support	9.1%670

Against the national median

The tick is the national median.

Housing

Owner-occupied	50%
Rented	50%
Flats and shared buildings	52.9%
Built before 1945	0.4%
Unoccupied	3.3%

Households

One-person households	44.2%
One-parent families	14.2%
Residents on unemployment, disability or income support	9.1%

Age bands

Under 15	14.5085%
15 to 25	11.1186%
25 to 45	29.6949%
45 to 65	24.6102%
65 and over	20.0678%

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.