Opwijk 1745

Addresses in Opwijk (Halle-Vilvoorde / Hal-Vilvorde), a municipality of 19.9 km² in which 14,547 people reside with a higher proportion of women (51.1%) than men in this municipality. The average age is 41 years, residents are majority ownership (78%) in their own homes and have an average annual net per capita income of 21,535€. Households have on average 1.3 cars and is therefore within the Belgian average.

The most represented nationalities are the following:
- 94.6% Belgium
- 1.5% Romania
- 0.4% Poland
- 0.4% Congo
- 0.4% Netherlands
- 0.3% Italy
- 0.3% Portugal
- 2% Other

In Opwijk, the first names you will hear the most in women are Maria, Marie, Rita, Godelieve and Hilde and for men you will regularly come across Jan, Jozef, Bart, Marc and Frans.

The average number of rooms in Opwijk is about 5.6 and is therefore below the national average (6). With regard to the age of the buildings, they were built around 1965 and the dwellings in the municipality are distributed as follows: 19.8% apartment buildings and 80.2% houses.

The different types of buildings are distributed as follows:
- 30.2% semi-closed type houses
- 29.3% open type houses, farms, castles
- 19.1% buildings and flat blocks
- 18.1% houses of the closed type
- 2.4% commercial houses
- 0.9% other types of buildings

The municipality of Opwijk has different companies on its territory, here are the most common areas:
- 58 firms active in "business and other management consultancy activities"
- 54 firms active in "hairdressing and other beauty treatment"
- 36 companies present in "landscape service activities"
- 35 firms in the domain "legal activities"
- 30 corporations present in "other specialised construction activities n.e.c."
- 30 corporations active in "public relations and communication activities"

In Opwijk, you are close to an access to the highway A12 (Brussels - Boom - Antwerpen - (Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands)): you will be there in 15 minutes from the centre of Opwijk. An access to the highway A10 / E40 (Brussels - Aalst - Gent - Brugge - Oostende) can also be reached in 15 minutes.

In Opwijk, you will also have access to these main roads:
- N47
- N211
- N411

For your daily shopping, you will find the following shops: 1 SPAR, 1 Carrefour, 1 Colruyt and 1 Delhaize.

If you have children or are planning to have children, you should know that the commune contains 5 nurseries (example: "Kdv Inne Minne" or "Zonnetje Opwijk - Neerveldstraat"), 7 nursery schools ("Vrije Basisschool - De Lettertuin" or "Vrije Basisschool - De Lettertuin"), 6 primary schools ("Vrije Basisschool - De Leertrommel" or "Vrije Basisschool 'T Luikertje" for example) and 2 secondary schools ("Vrij Katholiek Onderwijs Opwijk - Middenschool" or "Vrij Katholiek Onderwijs Opwijk").

8 different lines of bus have a stop in the commune of Opwijk like the following lines:
- Bus De Lijn, Line 23: Centraal Station - Dam - Noorderplaats
- Bus De Lijn, Line 24: Tienen - Neerlinter - Ransberg - Kortenaken
- Bus De Lijn, Line 320: Belbus Lebbeke - Buggenhout
- Bus De Lijn, Line 340: Belbus Faluintjes - Opwijk
- Bus De Lijn, Line 41: Sint-Truiden - Jeuk

The nearest stations to the centre of the town are "Opwijk", "Merchtem", "Heizijde", "Mollem", "Buggenhout".

There is no known charging station in the municipality.

In 26 minutes by car or 40 minutes by public transport, the nearest airport is Brussels Airport.

It would seem that there are no shared bicycles in this commune. Opwijk does not offer shared cars.