Addresses in Gent / Gand (Gent / Gand), a municipality of 157.7 km² in which 262,219 people reside with slightly more women (50.2%) than men in this municipality. The average age is 39 years, the inhabitants are mainly owners (50%) of their dwelling and have an average per capita income of 18,789€ net per year. The households own about 0.8 cars or below the Belgian average (1.3).
Here is an overview of the most common nationalities:
- 85.4% Belgium
- 3.9% Bulgaria
- 1.5% Turkey
- 1.2% Netherlands
- 0.8% Slovakia
- 0.5% Afghanistan
- 0.4% Poland
- 6.4% Other
The most common first names for women in Gent / Gand are Marie, Maria, Rita, Martine and Ann and the most common first names for men are Marc, Jan, Peter, Luc and Patrick.
On average, the homes you come across in Gent / Gand will have 5.3 rooms and is therefore below the national average (6). With regard to the age of the buildings, they were built around 1939 and the dwellings in the municipality are distributed as follows: 41% apartment buildings and 59% houses.
The breakdown by type of building is as follows:
- 39.5% houses of the closed type
- 39.4% buildings and flat blocks
- 8.6% open type houses, farms, castles
- 8.5% semi-closed type houses
- 3.3% commercial houses
- 0.7% other types of buildings
Multiple companies are located in Gent / Gand and work in these fields:
- 1684 companies present in "business and other management consultancy activities"
- 1402 companies active in "architectural activities"
- 991 companies in the field "restaurants and mobile food service activities"
- 888 corporations active in "legal activities"
- 676 companies in the field "hairdressing and other beauty treatment"
- 628 firms active in "computer consultancy activities"
In Gent / Gand, you are close to an access to the highway A10 / E40 (Brussels - Aalst - Gent - Brugge - Oostende): you will be there in 4 minutes from the centre of Gent / Gand. An access to the highway A14 / E17 (Antwerpen - Sint-Niklaas - Gent - Kortrijk - (Lille, France)) can also be reached in 4 minutes.
Access to these roads is easy to Gent / Gand:
- R4b
- R4a
- R4
- N9
- R40
Different supermarkets are available: 25 Carrefour, 23 Delhaize, 9 Aldi, 6 Louis Delhaize, 6 LIDL, 5 OKay, 5 Colruyt, 4 Albert Heijn, 4 SPAR, 1 Bio-Planet and 1 Match / Smatch.
If you have children or are planning to have children, you should know that the commune offers 126 nurseries ("De (B)engeltjes" or "'T Paradijsje" for example), 96 nursery schools ("Stedelijke Basisschool - De Panda" or "Go! Basisschool Mijlpaal Drongen"), 95 primary schools (examples: "Vrije Basisschool - Sint-Jans College Visitatie" or "Stedelijke Basisschool Daltonschool De Lotus") and 89 secondary schools ("Het Spectrum Gent" or "Humaniora Nieuwen Bosch").
The tram is at your disposal in Gent / Gand with 3 lines such as:
- Tram De Lijn, line 1 : Hasselt - Genk
- Tram De Lijn, line 2 : Heverlee Campus - Leuven - Kessel-Lo Hulsberg
- Tram De Lijn, line 4 : Hasselt - Kortessem - Tongeren
Gent / Gand is served by 67 lines of bus including these lines:
- Bus De Lijn, Line 3: Hasselt - Wellen - Borgloon - Heers
- Bus De Lijn, Line 5: Hasselt - Nieuwerkerken - Sint-Truiden
- Bus De Lijn, Line 6: Wijgmaal - Leuven - Neervelp - Hoegaarden
- Bus De Lijn, Line 9: Genk - As - Lanklaar - Dilsen - Maasmechelen
- Bus De Lijn, Line 930: Minder Mobielen Gent
The nearest stations to the centre of the town are "Gent-Sint-Pieters / Gand-Saint-Pierre", "Gent-Dampoort / Gand-Dampoort", "Gentbrugge", "Drongen / Tronchiennes", "Merelbeke".
Gent / Gand offers solutions for electric vehicles: 123 stations allow you to recharge your electric car.
The nearest airport is "Wevelgem Airport" and is 31 minutes away by car or 49 minutes by public transport.
Shared bikes "Blue-bike" can be rented at the 3 stations available in the commune. You will find 85 stations "Cambio" in the commune.
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