2561 Postcode — 's-Gravenhage, South Holland

English Nederlands

4-digit postcode 2561 covers 's-Gravenhage, South 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: 5,570
Households: 2,980
Average property value: €411,000
Owner-occupied: 60%
Average household size: 1.9
Urbanity: Very strongly urban

Where 2561 is

's-Gravenhage, South Holland — the point recorded for this postal code. It marks the centre of the code, not its boundary.

People

Residents	5,570
Men	2,810
Women	2,760
Under 15	805
15 to 25	645
25 to 45	2,135
45 to 65	1,405
65 and over	585
Born abroad, in Europe	20%
Born abroad, outside Europe	20%

Households

Households	2,980
Average size	1.9
One-person households	51.5%1,535
Couples without children	680
One-parent families	6.7%200
Two-parent families	570

Housing

Homes	2,875
Average property value (WOZ)	€411,000
Owner-occupied	60%
Rented	40%
Housing-association homes	20
Flats and shared buildings	93.2%2,680
Built before 1945	96.7%2,780
Unoccupied	8.2%235

Area

Addresses per square kilometre	8,186
Urbanity	Very strongly urban
Residents on unemployment, disability or income support	5.7%320

Against the national median

The tick is the national median.

Housing

Owner-occupied	60%
Rented	40%
Flats and shared buildings	93.2%
Built before 1945	96.7%
Unoccupied	8.2%

Households

One-person households	51.5%
One-parent families	6.7%
Residents on unemployment, disability or income support	5.7%

Age bands

Under 15	14.4395%
15 to 25	11.5695%
25 to 45	38.296%
45 to 65	25.2018%
65 and over	10.4933%

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.