8911 Postcode — Leeuwarden, Friesland

English Nederlands

4-digit postcode 8911 covers Leeuwarden, 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: 7,115
Households: 5,485
Average property value: €174,000
Owner-occupied: 10%
Average household size: 1.3
Urbanity: Very strongly urban

Where 8911 is

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

People

Residents	7,115
Men	3,795
Women	3,320
Under 15	180
15 to 25	2,620
25 to 45	2,660
45 to 65	960
65 and over	695
Born abroad, in Europe	10%
Born abroad, outside Europe	10%

Households

Households	5,485
Average size	1.3
One-person households	79.7%4,370
Couples without children	880
One-parent families	2.1%115
Two-parent families	120

Housing

Homes	5,065
Average property value (WOZ)	€174,000
Owner-occupied	10%
Rented	90%
Housing-association homes	1,245
Flats and shared buildings	90.8%4,600
Built before 1945	50.4%2,555
Unoccupied	7.8%395

Area

Addresses per square kilometre	4,641
Urbanity	Very strongly urban
Residents on unemployment, disability or income support	11.9%845

Against the national median

The tick is the national median.

Housing

Owner-occupied	10%
Rented	90%
Flats and shared buildings	90.8%
Built before 1945	50.4%
Unoccupied	7.8%

Households

One-person households	79.7%
One-parent families	2.1%
Residents on unemployment, disability or income support	11.9%

Age bands

Under 15	2.52987%
15 to 25	36.8236%
25 to 45	37.3858%
45 to 65	13.4926%
65 and over	9.7681%

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.