Postal Codes

8872 Postcode

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English Nederlands

4-digit postcode 8872 covers Midlum, 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
600
Households
290
Average property value
€269,000
Owner-occupied
70%
Average household size
2.1
Urbanity
Not urban

Where 8872 is

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

People
Residents600
Men310
Women290
Under 1580
15 to 2555
25 to 45140
45 to 65180
65 and over140
Born abroad, in Europe10%
Born abroad, outside Europe0%
Households
Households290
Average size2.1
One-person households36.2%105
Couples without children95
One-parent families10.3%30
Two-parent families65
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Housing
Homes275
Average property value (WOZ)€269,000
Owner-occupied70%
Rented30%
Housing-association homes70
Built before 194514.5%40
Unoccupied1.8%5
Area
Addresses per square kilometre334
UrbanityNot urban
Residents on unemployment, disability or income support6.7%40
Against the national median
Residents600Average property value€269,000Average household size2.1One-person households36.2%

The tick is the national median.

Housing
Owner-occupied70%
Rented30%
Built before 194514.5%
Unoccupied1.8%
Households
One-person households36.2%
One-parent families10.3%
Residents on unemployment, disability or income support6.7%
Age bands
Under 1513.4454%
15 to 259.2437%
25 to 4523.5294%
45 to 6530.2521%
65 and over23.5294%

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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