Addresses in Zelzate (Eeklo), a municipality of 13.8 km² in which 12,854 people reside with a lower number of women compared to men (50.7%). The inhabitants are mainly owners (63%) from their homes, they have an average age close to 42 years and their average income is 18,139€ net per year. The households own about 1.1 cars is lower than the national average (1.3).
The inhabitants come from these different countries:
- 88% Belgium
- 3.9% Netherlands
- 1.2% Bulgaria
- 1.1% Poland
- 0.9% Romania
- 0.6% Turkey
- 0.6% Slovakia
- 3.8% Other
Luc, Marc, Patrick, Dirk and Peter are the most common first names for men in Zelzate and Maria, Rita, Marie, Annie and Marleen for women.
The average number of rooms in Zelzate is about 5.7 or below the Belgian average (6). With regard to the age of the buildings, they were built around 1957 and the dwellings in the municipality are distributed as follows: 20.5% apartment buildings and 79.5% houses.
More specifically, here is the breakdown by type of building:
- 33.2% houses of the closed type
- 27.8% semi-closed type houses
- 19.8% buildings and flat blocks
- 15.7% open type houses, farms, castles
- 3.1% commercial houses
- 0.3% other types of buildings
Multiple companies are located in Zelzate and work in these fields:
- 53 corporations present in "hairdressing and other beauty treatment"
- 31 firms in the domain "restaurants and mobile food service activities"
- 24 companies in the field "beverage serving activities"
- 23 companies active in "electrical installation"
- 15 firms in the domain "freight transport by road"
- 14 firms active in "joinery installation"
Residents of Zelzate benefit from an entrance to the A11 / E34 (Antwerpen - Zelzate) motorway: it is a 3 minute drive from the centre. The highway A14 / E17 (Antwerpen - Sint-Niklaas - Gent - Kortrijk - (Lille, France)) also has an access that can be reached in 18 minutes.
These main roads pass through Zelzate:
- R4
- N62
- N252
- N423
- N436
The following shops are located in the town: 1 Match / Smatch, 1 Aldi, 1 LIDL, 1 Carrefour, 1 Colruyt and 1 Delhaize.
For education, the municipality has 2 nurseries (for example: the nursery "Zazoe" or also "Villa Wapiwi"), 5 nursery schools ("Vrije Basisschool" or "Go! Basisschool De Reigers Zelzate"), 5 primary schools (e.g. school "Vrije Basisschool" or "Vrije Basisschool Sint-Laurens Zelzate-West") and 7 secondary schools ("Sint-Laurensinstituut - Aso" or "Sint-Laurensinstituut - Aso").
Zelzate is served by 8 lines of bus including these lines:
- Bus De Lijn, Line 175: Belbus Oostakker
- Bus De Lijn, Line 49: Gent Sint-Pieters - Herzele - Geraardsbergen
- Bus De Lijn, Line 55: Gent - Zelzate
- Bus De Lijn, Line 96: Eeklo - Assenede - Zelzate
- Bus De Lijn, Line 97: Eeklo - Ertvelde - Zelzate
The nearest stations to the centre of the town are "Evergem", "Sleidinge", "Beervelde", "Wondelgem", "Waarschoot".
There is no known charging station in the municipality.
The nearest airport is "Antwerp International Airport (Deurne)" and is 37 minutes away by car or 57 minutes by public transport.
It would seem that there are no shared bicycles in this commune. Zelzate does not seem to offer shared cars.
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