7957 Postcode — de Wijk, Drenthe

English Nederlands

4-digit postcode 7957 covers de Wijk, Drenthe. 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: 2,990
Households: 1,325
Average property value: €387,000
Owner-occupied: 70%
Average household size: 2.2
Urbanity: Not urban

Where 7957 is

de Wijk, Drenthe — the point recorded for this postal code. It marks the centre of the code, not its boundary.

People

Residents	2,990
Men	1,500
Women	1,485
Under 15	400
15 to 25	310
25 to 45	540
45 to 65	835
65 and over	905
Born abroad, in Europe	0%
Born abroad, outside Europe	0%

Households

Households	1,325
Average size	2.2
One-person households	29.1%385
Couples without children	550
One-parent families	6%80
Two-parent families	310

Housing

Homes	1,370
Average property value (WOZ)	€387,000
Owner-occupied	70%
Rented	30%
Housing-association homes	320
Flats and shared buildings	14.2%195
Built before 1945	15.7%215
Unoccupied	2.9%40

Area

Addresses per square kilometre	385
Urbanity	Not urban
Residents on unemployment, disability or income support	6.9%205

Against the national median

The tick is the national median.

Housing

Owner-occupied	70%
Rented	30%
Flats and shared buildings	14.2%
Built before 1945	15.7%
Unoccupied	2.9%

Households

One-person households	29.1%
One-parent families	6%
Residents on unemployment, disability or income support	6.9%

Age bands

Under 15	13.3779%
15 to 25	10.3679%
25 to 45	18.0602%
45 to 65	27.9264%
65 and over	30.2676%

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.