8448 Postcode — Heerenveen, Friesland

English Nederlands

4-digit postcode 8448 covers Heerenveen, Friesland. 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: 6,055
Households: 2,215
Average property value: €452,000
Owner-occupied: 80%
Average household size: 2.7
Urbanity: Little urban

Where 8448 is

Heerenveen, Friesland — the point recorded for this postal code. It marks the centre of the code, not its boundary.

People

Residents	6,055
Men	3,055
Women	3,000
Under 15	1,395
15 to 25	745
25 to 45	1,530
45 to 65	1,715
65 and over	675
Born abroad, in Europe	0%
Born abroad, outside Europe	0%

Households

Households	2,215
Average size	2.7
One-person households	19.6%435
Couples without children	610
One-parent families	8.6%190
Two-parent families	985

Housing

Homes	2,250
Average property value (WOZ)	€452,000
Owner-occupied	80%
Rented	20%
Housing-association homes	285
Flats and shared buildings	11.1%250
Built before 1945	7.1%160
Unoccupied	2%45

Area

Addresses per square kilometre	725
Urbanity	Little urban
Residents on unemployment, disability or income support	4%240

Against the national median

The tick is the national median.

Housing

Owner-occupied	80%
Rented	20%
Flats and shared buildings	11.1%
Built before 1945	7.1%
Unoccupied	2%

Households

One-person households	19.6%
One-parent families	8.6%
Residents on unemployment, disability or income support	4%

Age bands

Under 15	23.0198%
15 to 25	12.2937%
25 to 45	25.2475%
45 to 65	28.3003%
65 and over	11.1386%

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.