Addresses in Spiere-Helkijn / Espierres-Helchin (Kortrijk / Courtrai), as which has 2,049 inhabitants in an area 10.8 km² with a higher proportion of women (51.5%) than men in this municipality. The inhabitants are in majority owners (62%) from their homes, they have an average age close to 40 years and their average income is 17,589€ net per year. There is an average of 1.3 cars per household either aligned with the country's average.
Citizens come from the following countries:
- 92.3% Belgium
- 6.2% France
- 0.3% Romania
- 0.2% Togo
- 0.1% Italy
- 0.1% United Kingdom
- 0.1% Portugal
- 0.6% Other
Marie, Isabelle, Anne, Nancy and Nathalie are the first names you will come across the most in Spiere-Helkijn / Espierres-Helchin for men and Jean, Christian, Thierry, Philippe and Bernard for women.
The average number of rooms in Spiere-Helkijn / Espierres-Helchin is about 6 either aligned with the country's average. With regard to the age of the buildings, they were built around 1952 and the dwellings in the municipality are distributed as follows: 7.7% apartment buildings and 92.3% houses.
The breakdown by type of building is as follows:
- 36.9% open type houses, farms, castles
- 25.8% houses of the closed type
- 25.1% semi-closed type houses
- 7.3% buildings and flat blocks
- 4.2% commercial houses
- 0.6% other types of buildings
The municipality of Spiere-Helkijn / Espierres-Helchin has different companies on its territory, here are the most common areas:
- 12 firms in the domain "growing of cereals (except rice), leguminous crops and oil seeds"
- 12 companies in the field "hairdressing and other beauty treatment"
- 9 companies present in "electrical installation"
- 9 firms active in "beverage serving activities"
- 9 companies present in "business and other management consultancy activities"
- 8 firms present in "restaurants and mobile food service activities"
Residents of Spiere-Helkijn / Espierres-Helchin benefit from an entrance to the A17 / E403 (Brugge - Kortrijk - Tournai) motorway: it is a 5 minute drive from the centre. The highway A14 / E17 (Antwerpen - Sint-Niklaas - Gent - Kortrijk - (Lille, France)) also has an access that can be reached in 11 minutes.
These main roads pass through Spiere-Helkijn / Espierres-Helchin:
- N50
- N353
- N512
If you have children or are planning to have children, you should know that the commune has 1 nursery ("De Vlinder"), 2 nursery schools ("Go! Basisschool De Polyglot Spiere-Helkijn" or "Go! Basisschool De Polyglot Spiere-Helkijn"), a primary school (Go! Basisschool De Polyglot Spiere-Helkijn) but no secondary school.
5 lines from bus with a stop in Spiere-Helkijn / Espierres-Helchin, you will find an overview of the lines:
- Bus De Lijn, Line 15: Maaseik - Kinrooi - Molenbeersel
- Bus De Lijn, Line 85: Antw. LO-Beveren-Vrasene-SGW-Stekene-Moerbeke
- Bus De Lijn, Line 93: Sint-Niklaas - Hoogk - Temse - Rupelm - A'pen L.O
- Bus De Lijn, Line 99: Hamme - Temse - Rupelmonde - Antwerpen L.O
- Bus TEC, Line 2: Mons - Dour
The nearest stations to the centre of the town are "Herseaux", "Mouscron / Moeskroen", "Mouscron-Frontiere / Moeskroen-Grens", "Froyennes", "Kortrijk / Courtrai".
There is no known charging station in the municipality.
In 13 minutes by car or 20 minutes by public transport, the nearest airport is Wevelgem Airport.
We are not aware of the existence of shared bicycles in this commune. Spiere-Helkijn / Espierres-Helchin does not seem to offer shared cars.
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