1608 Postcode — Wijdenes, North Holland

English Nederlands

4-digit postcode 1608 covers Wijdenes, 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: 1,510
Households: 650
Average property value: €502,000
Owner-occupied: 80%
Average household size: 2.3
Urbanity: Not urban

Where 1608 is

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

People

Residents	1,510
Men	775
Women	730
Under 15	200
15 to 25	170
25 to 45	300
45 to 65	510
65 and over	330
Born abroad, in Europe	0%
Born abroad, outside Europe	0%

Households

Households	650
Average size	2.3
One-person households	26.2%170
Couples without children	260
One-parent families	5.4%35
Two-parent families	180

Housing

Homes	650
Average property value (WOZ)	€502,000
Owner-occupied	80%
Rented	20%
Housing-association homes	85
Flats and shared buildings	6.2%40
Built before 1945	33.1%215
Unoccupied	4.6%30

Area

Addresses per square kilometre	103
Urbanity	Not urban
Residents on unemployment, disability or income support	5%75

Against the national median

The tick is the national median.

Housing

Owner-occupied	80%
Rented	20%
Flats and shared buildings	6.2%
Built before 1945	33.1%
Unoccupied	4.6%

Households

One-person households	26.2%
One-parent families	5.4%
Residents on unemployment, disability or income support	5%

Age bands

Under 15	13.245%
15 to 25	11.2583%
25 to 45	19.8675%
45 to 65	33.7748%
65 and over	21.8543%

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.