Tienen 3300

Addresses in Tienen / Tirlemont (Leuven / Louvain), commune of 72.8 km²: 34,975 people live in this area where there are fewer men than women (51.6%). The average age of the inhabitants is about 43 years, they are mainly owners (72%) in their homes and have an average per capita income of 19,683 € net per year. There is an average of 1.1 cars per household or less than the national average (1.3).

The most represented nationalities are the following:
- 92.4% Belgium
- 1% Netherlands
- 0.9% Romania
- 0.7% Poland
- 0.6% Iraq
- 0.4% Morocco
- 0.3% Italy
- 3.8% Other

Maria, Marie, Rita, Christiane and Nicole are the first names you will come across the most in Tienen / Tirlemont for men and Marc, Luc, Jean, Patrick and André for women.

In general, the accommodation you will find in Tienen / Tirlemont has 5.7 rooms and is therefore below the national average (6). With regard to the age of the buildings, they were built around 1944 and the dwellings in the municipality are distributed as follows: 22.5% apartment buildings and 77.5% houses.

The breakdown by type of building is as follows:
- 37.4% houses of the closed type
- 21.6% buildings and flat blocks
- 20.4% open type houses, farms, castles
- 16.4% semi-closed type houses
- 2.8% commercial houses
- 1.3% other types of buildings

Multiple companies are located in Tienen / Tirlemont and work in these fields:
- 142 corporations active in "hairdressing and other beauty treatment"
- 103 corporations present in "business and other management consultancy activities"
- 101 firms in the domain "restaurants and mobile food service activities"
- 71 companies in the field "legal activities"
- 64 companies in the field "computer consultancy activities"
- 59 companies present in "landscape service activities"

The motorway A3 / E25 - E40 - E42 (Brussels - Leuven - Liège - Eupen - (Aachen, Germany)) is easily accessible to the residents of Tienen / Tirlemont: 4 minutes drive is enough from the centre. In addition, there is also access to the A2 / E314 motorway. (Leuven - Diest - Genk - Maasmechelen) to 18 minutes.

These main roads pass through Tienen / Tirlemont:
- N3
- R27
- N29
- N64
- N221

For your daily shopping, you will find the following shops: 3 Carrefour, 2 Aldi, 2 Colruyt, 2 Delhaize, 1 SPAR and 1 LIDL.

As far as children are concerned, the municipality has 9 nurseries (such as the nursery "Ooievaarsnest" or "Het Bavetje"), 12 nursery schools ("Vrije Basisschool De Toverwijzer" or "Vrije Basisschool - Sint-Jozef"), 13 primary schools (e.g. school "Vrije Basisschool - Sint-Jozef" or "Vrije Basisschool De Toverwijzer") and 8 secondary schools ("Go! Atheneum Tienen" or "Go! Atheneum Tienen").

The bus is at your disposal in Tienen / Tirlemont with 37 lines such as:
- Bus De Lijn, Line 22: UZA - Valaar - Groenplaats
- Bus De Lijn, Line 313: Tienen - St-Truiden
- Bus De Lijn, Line 346: Landen - Tienen
- Bus De Lijn, Line 380: Leuven - Boutersem - Tienen
- Bus De Lijn, Line 713: Belbus Lommel west

Here is the choice in the available stations: "Thienen / Tirlemont / Tienen", "Ezemaal", "Neerwinden", "Vertrijk", "Landen".

Do you use an electric car or would you like to switch to this type of vehicle in the near future? Be aware that 2 electric recharging stations are located in the commune of Tienen / Tirlemont!

In 42 minutes by public transport or 27 minutes by car you can reach the airport "Brussels Airport".

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 2 stations "Cambio" !