Roeselare 8800

Addresses in Roeselare / Roulers (Roeselare / Roulers), commune of 60.4 km²: 62,954 people live in this area where there are fewer men than women (50.1%). The average age of the inhabitants is about 42 years, they are majority ownership (70%) in their homes and have an average per capita income of 18,660 € net per year. The households own about 1.1 cars and is therefore below the national average (1.3).

The inhabitants come from these different countries:
- 90.6% Belgium
- 3.6% Romania
- 1% Poland
- 0.6% Afghanistan
- 0.4% Iraq
- 0.4% Russia
- 0.3% Netherlands
- 3% Other

The most common first names for women in Roeselare / Roulers are Maria, Marie, Rita, Ann and Marleen and the most common first names for men are Luc, Geert, Marc, Johan and Patrick.

In general, the accommodation you will find in Roeselare / Roulers has 5.8 rooms or below the Belgian average (6). The average year of construction of the buildings is 1961 and the dwellings in the municipality are distributed as follows: 77.4% houses and 22.6% apartment buildings.

There are buildings distributed as follows:
- 34% houses of the closed type
- 21.7% buildings and flat blocks
- 21.6% open type houses, farms, castles
- 18.9% semi-closed type houses
- 2.7% commercial houses
- 1.2% other types of buildings

The municipality of Roeselare / Roulers has different companies on its territory, here are the most common areas:
- 320 firms present in "activities of head offices"
- 314 companies active in "hairdressing and other beauty treatment"
- 219 firms active in "business and other management consultancy activities"
- 182 corporations in the field "restaurants and mobile food service activities"
- 137 companies active in "electrical installation"
- 137 companies active in "architectural activities"

Residents of Roeselare / Roulers benefit from an entrance to the A17 / E403 (Brugge - Kortrijk - Tournai) motorway: it is a 5 minute drive from the centre. The highway A19 (Kortrijk - Ieper) also has an access that can be reached in 14 minutes.

Access to these roads is easy to Roeselare / Roulers:
- N32
- R32
- N36a
- N36
- N37

For your daily shopping, you will find the following shops: 3 Carrefour, 3 Delhaize, 2 Albert Heijn, 2 LIDL, 2 Colruyt, 1 Bio-Planet, 1 OKay and 1 SPAR.

In terms of children's facilities, the municipality offers 34 nurseries ("Bambieno" or "Kinderopvang Duckie" for example), 22 nursery schools ("Go! Basisschool Windekind Rumbeke" or "Go! Basisschool Ring - Campus Groenestraat"), 26 primary schools (e.g. school "Go! Basisschool Ring - Campus Groenestraat" or "Vrije Lagere School Arkorum 12- De Bever") and 40 secondary schools ("Onze-Lieve-Vrouw Van Vreugde" or "Vabi").

22 different lines of bus have a stop in the commune of Roeselare / Roulers like the following lines:
- Bus De Lijn, Line 1: Hasselt - Genk
- Bus De Lijn, Line 2: Heverlee Campus - Leuven - Kessel-Lo Hulsberg
- Bus De Lijn, Line 38: Hasselt - Kortessem - Borgloon - Heers
- Bus De Lijn, Line 5: Hasselt - Nieuwerkerken - Sint-Truiden
- Bus De Lijn, Line 6: Wijgmaal - Leuven - Neervelp - Hoegaarden

The nearest stations to the centre of the town are "Roeselare / Roulers", "Izegem", "Lichtervelde", "Ingelmunster", "Kortemark".

Roeselare / Roulers offers solutions for electric vehicles: 5 stations allow you to recharge your electric car.

The best placed airport in relation to the municipality is "Wevelgem Airport". It is 22 minutes by public transport or 14 minutes by car.

A bicycle "Blue-bike" can be rented through one of the 1 available stations. You don't need to own your own car but have an occasional need? No worries, your commune has 3 stations "Cambio" !