Addresses in Aalst / Alost (Aalst / Alost), a municipality of 78.7 km² in which 86,445 people reside with fewer men than women (50.9%). The average age is 42 years, residents are mostly owners (69%) in their own homes and have an average annual net per capita income of 19,693€. Households have on average 1.1 cars and is therefore below the national average (1.3).
Here is an overview of the most common nationalities:
- 92% Belgium
- 1.2% Romania
- 1.2% Netherlands
- 0.7% Congo
- 0.5% Poland
- 0.3% Morocco
- 0.3% Turkey
- 3.7% Other
Luc, Marc, Patrick, Jan and Dirk are the most common first names for men in Aalst / Alost and Maria, Marie, Godelieve, Ann and Rita for women.
The average number of rooms in Aalst / Alost is about 5.6 or below the Belgian average (6). In terms of the age of the buildings, the average is around 1953 with this distribution: 72.8% houses and 27.2% apartment buildings.
There are buildings distributed as follows:
- 36.6% houses of the closed type
- 25.4% buildings and flat blocks
- 18.9% semi-closed type houses
- 12.3% open type houses, farms, castles
- 3.7% other types of buildings
- 3% commercial houses
Multiple companies are located in Aalst / Alost and work in these fields:
- 337 companies in the field "hairdressing and other beauty treatment"
- 321 corporations in the field "business and other management consultancy activities"
- 229 corporations present in "restaurants and mobile food service activities"
- 185 companies active in "computer consultancy activities"
- 170 companies in the field "legal activities"
- 142 companies present in "beverage serving activities"
Living in Aalst / Alost, you will not be far from an entrance to the A10 / E40 (Brussels - Aalst - Gent - Brugge - Oostende) motorway, which is 3 minutes by car from the centre of the town. An entrance for the A14 / E17 motorway (Antwerpen - Sint-Niklaas - Gent - Kortrijk - (Lille, France)) is also accessible in 23 minutes.
Access to these roads is easy to Aalst / Alost:
- N9
- R41
- N41
- N405
- N406a
Several supermarkets are at your disposal in the commune: 6 Carrefour, 5 Delhaize, 4 SPAR, 3 Aldi, 2 Louis Delhaize, 2 OKay, 2 LIDL, 1 Albert Heijn, 1 Bio-Planet and 1 Colruyt.
For education, the municipality has 33 nurseries (for example: the nursery "Arlecchino" or also "De Stampertjes"), 41 nursery schools ("Vrije Basisschool - Herdersem" or "Vrije Basisschool Sint-Maarten"), 37 primary schools (examples: "Go! Basisschool Atheneum Aalst" or "Vrije Basisschool Sint-Maarten") and 37 secondary schools ("Technigo! Campus Ledebaan Aalst" or "Sint-Augustinusinstituut").
Aalst / Alost is served by 36 lines of bus including these lines:
- Bus De Lijn, Line 1: Hasselt - Genk
- Bus De Lijn, Line 2: Heverlee Campus - Leuven - Kessel-Lo Hulsberg
- Bus De Lijn, Line 214: Brussel-Asse-Aalst
- Bus De Lijn, Line 3: Hasselt - Wellen - Borgloon - Heers
- Bus De Lijn, Line 4: Hasselt - Kortessem - Tongeren
The nearest stations to the centre of the town are "Aalst / Alost", "Aalst-Kerrebroek / Alost Kerrebroek", "Erembodegem", "Vijfhuizen", "Haaltert".
Do you use an electric car or would you like to switch to this type of vehicle in the near future? Be aware that 11 electric recharging stations are located in the commune of Aalst / Alost!
The nearest airport is "Brussels Airport" and is 27 minutes away by car or 43 minutes by public transport.
You will also have the possibility to rent a bike "Blue-bike" thanks to the 1 stations available in the commune. 10 stations " Cambio " allow you to rent a shared car.
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