Postcode areas PC4 / PC6

Products

• PC4 and PC6 boundaries The official four and six digit postcode boundaries for the Netherlands, delivered as a ready to use map layer, with several years available so you can pick the vintage that fits your analysis. per PC6 (or PC4, coarser)
• Basis for area matching A reference layer that lets you join any dataset with a postcode field onto a map or onto other area based data, so different sources line up on a common geography. per PC6
• CBS postcode areas as a geo layer The postcode boundaries delivered as a ready GIS layer, paired with area level statistics such as income, property value, density and urbanity so you can map both geography and context together. per PC4 and PC6
• Overview by municipality A roll up of postcode areas grouped by the municipality they sit in, giving you a coarser summary view when full postcode detail is not needed. per municipality (from PC4/PC6)
• Export layer for GIS use The postcode boundaries packaged as a standard GIS export, such as shapefile or GeoPackage, ready to drop into your mapping tools. per PC6
• Mapping table between PC4 and PC6 A lookup table linking every six digit postcode to its parent four digit postcode, so you can roll fine grained analysis up to the coarser level. per PC6, mapped to parent PC4
• Basis for a custom area breakdown Postcode areas as building blocks for your own custom territory or sales region map, grouped however suits your business. per PC6, custom aggregation
• Combination with district and neighbourhood divisions Overlays the postcode grid with official district and neighbourhood boundaries so you can analyse either unit or cross reference the two. per PC6 x buurt
• Quality check on postcode matching A validation check that flags postcodes in your file which do not match our reference boundaries, useful for cleaning an address list before analysis. per PC6
• Historical overview of boundary changes A year over year comparison showing where postcode boundaries shifted, merged or were retired, built from several years of boundary data. per PC6, across years
• Comparison of surface area by postcode area Ranks or compares postcode areas by physical size, useful for spotting unusually large or small postcode zones. per PC6