Postal Codes

6543 Postcode

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English Nederlands

4-digit postcode 6543 covers Nijmegen, Guelders. 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
7,785
Households
4,370
Average property value
€362,000
Owner-occupied
50%
Average household size
1.7
Urbanity
Strongly urban

Where 6543 is

Nijmegen, Guelders โ€” the point recorded for this postal code. It marks the centre of the code, not its boundary.

People
Residents7,785
Men3,700
Women4,085
Under 15920
15 to 251,475
25 to 452,395
45 to 651,705
65 and over1,290
Born abroad, in Europe10%
Born abroad, outside Europe10%
Households
Households4,370
Average size1.7
One-person households58.5%2,555
Couples without children965
One-parent families5.5%240
Two-parent families610
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Housing
Homes3,765
Average property value (WOZ)€362,000
Owner-occupied50%
Rented50%
Housing-association homes1,600
Flats and shared buildings51.3%1,930
Built before 19459.6%360
Unoccupied3.9%145
Area
Addresses per square kilometre2,443
UrbanityStrongly urban
Residents on unemployment, disability or income support11.2%875
Against the national median
Residents7,785Average property value€362,000Average household size1.7One-person households58.5%

The tick is the national median.

Housing
Owner-occupied50%
Rented50%
Flats and shared buildings51.3%
Built before 19459.6%
Unoccupied3.9%
Households
One-person households58.5%
One-parent families5.5%
Residents on unemployment, disability or income support11.2%
Age bands
Under 1511.8176%
15 to 2518.9467%
25 to 4530.7643%
45 to 6521.9011%
65 and over16.5703%

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.

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