8916 Postcode — Leeuwarden, Friesland

English Nederlands

4-digit postcode 8916 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: 3,190
Households: 1,800
Average property value: €253,000
Owner-occupied: 60%
Average household size: 1.8
Urbanity: Very strongly urban

Where 8916 is

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

People

Residents	3,190
Men	1,550
Women	1,640
Under 15	395
15 to 25	455
25 to 45	990
45 to 65	755
65 and over	600
Born abroad, in Europe	0%
Born abroad, outside Europe	10%

Households

Households	1,800
Average size	1.8
One-person households	52.2%940
Couples without children	435
One-parent families	8.1%145
Two-parent families	280

Housing

Homes	1,760
Average property value (WOZ)	€253,000
Owner-occupied	60%
Rented	40%
Housing-association homes	355
Flats and shared buildings	36.9%650
Built before 1945	69.9%1,230
Unoccupied	3.1%55

Area

Addresses per square kilometre	3,192
Urbanity	Very strongly urban
Residents on unemployment, disability or income support	7.8%250

Against the national median

The tick is the national median.

Housing

Owner-occupied	60%
Rented	40%
Flats and shared buildings	36.9%
Built before 1945	69.9%
Unoccupied	3.1%

Households

One-person households	52.2%
One-parent families	8.1%
Residents on unemployment, disability or income support	7.8%

Age bands

Under 15	12.3631%
15 to 25	14.241%
25 to 45	30.9859%
45 to 65	23.6307%
65 and over	18.7793%

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.