Galmaarden 1570

Addresses in Galmaarden / Gammerages (Halle-Vilvoorde / Hal-Vilvorde), commune of 35.3 km²: 8,746 people live in this area where there are slightly more women (50.5%) than men in this municipality. The average age of the inhabitants is about 42 years, they are in majority owners (84%) in their homes and have an average per capita income of 21,281 € net per year. There is an average of 1.4 cars per household or more than the national average (1.3).

The inhabitants come from these different countries:
- 97.5% Belgium
- 0.4% Romania
- 0.3% Poland
- 0.3% France
- 0.2% Netherlands
- 0.2% Portugal
- 0.2% Italy
- 0.9% Other

Marie, Martine, Maria, Cindy and Christiane are the first names you will come across the most in Galmaarden / Gammerages for men and Johan, Luc, Jean, Marc and Dirk for women.

In Galmaarden / Gammerages, the dwellings have on average 5.9 rooms and is therefore below the national average (6). With regard to the age of the buildings, they were built around 1951 and the dwellings in the municipality are distributed as follows: 6.1% apartment buildings and 93.9% houses.

There are buildings distributed as follows:
- 43% open type houses, farms, castles
- 28.9% semi-closed type houses
- 18.9% houses of the closed type
- 5.9% buildings and flat blocks
- 1.8% commercial houses
- 1.6% other types of buildings

Companies in Galmaarden / Gammerages are located in the following sectors:
- 47 companies active in "business and other management consultancy activities"
- 33 companies present in "hairdressing and other beauty treatment"
- 32 companies present in "mixed farming"
- 31 firms active in "other specialised construction activities n.e.c."
- 28 companies active in "landscape service activities"
- 23 corporations present in "electrical installation"

Residents of Galmaarden / Gammerages benefit from an entrance to the A8 / E429 - E42 (Halle - Tournai - (Lille, France)) motorway: it is a 11 minute drive from the centre. The highway A10 / E40 (Brussels - Aalst - Gent - Brugge - Oostende) also has an access that can be reached in 21 minutes.

Access to these roads is easy to Galmaarden / Gammerages:
- N249
- N255
- N272
- N495

Several supermarkets are at your disposal in the commune: 1 OKay and 1 Delhaize.

For education, the municipality has 1 nursery ("Pierrot"), 5 nursery schools ("Vrije Basisschool - Sint- Catharinacollege" or "Gemeentelijke Basisschool - Herhout"), 5 primary schools ("Gemeentelijke Basisschool" or "Gemeentelijke Basisschool - Herhout" for example) but no secondary school.

11 lines from bus with a stop in Galmaarden / Gammerages, you will find an overview of the lines:
- Bus De Lijn, Line 161: Leerbeek - Geraardsbergen
- Bus De Lijn, Line 162: Leerbeek - Vollezele - Ninove
- Bus De Lijn, Line 370: Leuven - Tielt - Diest
- Bus De Lijn, Line 502: Schoolbus St.-Martens-Lennik
- Bus De Lijn, Line 71: Oostakker - Gent - Nazareth

The nearest stations to the centre of the town are "Galmaarden / Gammerages", "Tollembeek", "Viane-Moerbeke", "Herne", "Zandbergen".

There is no known charging station in the municipality.

The nearest airport is "Brussels Airport" and is 43 minutes away by car or 68 minutes by public transport.

Unfortunately, the commune does not seem to have any shared bicycles available. Galmaarden / Gammerages has no shared cars at the moment.