8602 Postcode — Sneek, Friesland

English Nederlands

4-digit postcode 8602 covers Sneek, 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: 4,815
Households: 2,135
Average property value: €256,000
Owner-occupied: 40%
Average household size: 2
Urbanity: Strongly urban

Where 8602 is

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

People

Residents	4,815
Men	2,365
Women	2,455
Under 15	760
15 to 25	620
25 to 45	1,300
45 to 65	1,290
65 and over	845
Born abroad, in Europe	0%
Born abroad, outside Europe	20%

Households

Households	2,135
Average size	2
One-person households	45.4%970
Couples without children	505
One-parent families	12.6%270
Two-parent families	395

Housing

Homes	2,295
Average property value (WOZ)	€256,000
Owner-occupied	40%
Rented	60%
Housing-association homes	1,235
Flats and shared buildings	32%735
Built before 1945	17.9%410
Unoccupied	2.8%65

Area

Addresses per square kilometre	1,543
Urbanity	Strongly urban
Residents on unemployment, disability or income support	14.6%705

Against the national median

The tick is the national median.

Housing

Owner-occupied	40%
Rented	60%
Flats and shared buildings	32%
Built before 1945	17.9%
Unoccupied	2.8%

Households

One-person households	45.4%
One-parent families	12.6%
Residents on unemployment, disability or income support	14.6%

Age bands

Under 15	15.784%
15 to 25	12.8764%
25 to 45	26.999%
45 to 65	26.7913%
65 and over	17.5493%

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.