Residents by urbanisation of their postcode area: strongly urbanised is the largest part, 28% in 2024

Breakdown in 2024: strongly urbanised 28%, extremely urbanised 24%, moderately urbanised 18%, hardly urbanised 16%, not urbanised 14%. Total: 17.9 million residents.

Source: CBS, statistiek per postcode (pc4, 2024) via PDOK (WFS) · opgehaald 25 oktober 2026 · selection: 4.071 postcodegebieden, waarvan 16 zonder cijfer (geheim); stedelijkheid van het postcodegebied (omgevingsadressendichtheid); aantallen afgerond op 5Open the table Single block

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CBS statistics per postcode and per grid square

Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek

CBS also publishes its key figures per postcode area (4 digits, and 6 characters) and per grid square of 100 and 500 metres, finer than the district and neighbourhood division. Each area has about 140 fields: residents by age and origin, households, dwellings by construction year and ownership, WOZ value, energy use, income, benefits, urbanisation and the distance to amenities such as GP, supermarket and station. Postcode figures run from 2015 to 2024, grid squares from 2000 to 2024. In 2024 there were 4,071 four-digit postcode areas and 464,964 six-character ones. Via PDOK as OGC API, and per year as WFS and WMS; CBS itself also offers ZIP files, which already include 2025 (first version).

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Table: postcode4 2024
Latest figure: 2024
Fetched: 25 October 2026

Fetch exactly these figures yourself

curl "https://service.pdok.nl/cbs/postcode4/2024/wfs/v1_0?service=WFS&version=2.0.0&request=GetPropertyValue&typeNames=postcode4&valueReference=aantalInwoners&sortBy=postcode&count=1000&startIndex=0"

curl "https://service.pdok.nl/cbs/postcode4/2024/wfs/v1_0?service=WFS&version=2.0.0&request=GetPropertyValue&typeNames=postcode4&valueReference=stedelijkheid&sortBy=postcode&count=1000&startIndex=0"

Residents by urbanisation of their postcode area: strongly urbanised is the largest part, 28% in 2024

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