Postal Codes

8937 Postcode

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English Nederlands

4-digit postcode 8937 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
940
Households
460
Average property value
€154,000
Average household size
1.8
Urbanity
Strongly urban

Where 8937 is

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

People
Residents940
Men485
Women455
Under 15170
15 to 25115
25 to 45340
45 to 65160
65 and over155
Born abroad, in Europe0%
Born abroad, outside Europe30%
Households
Households460
Average size1.8
One-person households60.9%280
Couples without children65
One-parent families14.1%65
Two-parent families55
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Housing
Homes690
Average property value (WOZ)€154,000
Rented100%
Housing-association homes685
Flats and shared buildings92.8%640
Unoccupied20.3%140
Area
Addresses per square kilometre2,153
UrbanityStrongly urban
Residents on unemployment, disability or income support22.9%215
Against the national median
Residents940Average property value€154,000Average household size1.8One-person households60.9%

The tick is the national median.

Housing
Rented100%
Flats and shared buildings92.8%
Unoccupied20.3%
Households
One-person households60.9%
One-parent families14.1%
Residents on unemployment, disability or income support22.9%
Age bands
Under 1518.0851%
15 to 2512.234%
25 to 4536.1702%
45 to 6517.0213%
65 and over16.4894%

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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