Zwevegem 8550

Addresses in Zwevegem (Kortrijk / Courtrai), as which has 24,656 inhabitants in an area 63.6 km² with more women (50.4%) than men in this agglomeration. The average age of the inhabitants is about 42 years, they are mostly owners (77%) in their homes and have an average per capita income of 19,660 € net per year. There is an average of 1.3 cars per household and is therefore within the Belgian average.

Citizens come from the following countries:
- 97.3% Belgium
- 0.4% France
- 0.4% Romania
- 0.3% Poland
- 0.3% Netherlands
- 0.1% Spain
- 0.1% Morocco
- 1% Other

In Zwevegem, the first names you will hear the most in women are Marie, Rita, Ann, Maria and Christine and for men you will regularly come across Luc, Marc, Geert, Dirk and Johan.

On average, the homes you come across in Zwevegem will have 6 rooms or as much as the average in the country. With regard to the age of the buildings, they were built around 1958 and the dwellings in the municipality are distributed as follows: 10.2% apartment buildings and 89.8% houses.

There are buildings distributed as follows:
- 31.7% open type houses, farms, castles
- 29.2% semi-closed type houses
- 25.5% houses of the closed type
- 9.9% buildings and flat blocks
- 2.8% commercial houses
- 1% other types of buildings

Multiple companies are located in Zwevegem and work in these fields:
- 132 firms present in "hairdressing and other beauty treatment"
- 111 firms in the domain "business and other management consultancy activities"
- 110 firms in the domain "activities of head offices"
- 91 corporations present in "mixed farming"
- 88 firms in the domain "landscape service activities"
- 72 corporations active in "joinery installation"

Residents of Zwevegem benefit from an entrance to the A14 / E17 (Antwerpen - Sint-Niklaas - Gent - Kortrijk - (Lille, France)) motorway: it is a 4 minute drive from the centre. The highway A17 / E403 (Brugge - Kortrijk - Tournai) also has an access that can be reached in 14 minutes.

Access to these roads is easy to Zwevegem:
- N8
- N391

Several supermarkets are at your disposal in the commune: 3 Delhaize, 2 SPAR, 1 OKay, 1 Aldi, 1 LIDL and 1 Carrefour.

If you have children or are planning to have children, you should know that the commune offers 6 nurseries ("De Bosvriendjes" or "Baby Hof" for example), 10 nursery schools ("Gemeentelijke Basisschool Zwevegem" or "Vrije Basisschool"), 16 primary schools (examples: "Vrije Basisschool" or "Gemeentelijke Lagere School") and 7 secondary schools ("Rhizo 2" or "Rhizo 6").

You will find 6 lines of bus different lines that stop in Zwevegem:
- Bus De Lijn, Line 89: Antwerpen L.O. - Kallo - Kieldrecht
- Bus De Lijn, Line 91: Hasselt - Lummen - Tessenderlo - Hulst
- Bus De Lijn, Line 92: Diest - Lummen - Heusden
- Bus De Lijn, Line 93: Sint-Niklaas - Hoogk - Temse - Rupelm - A'pen L.O
- Bus De Lijn, Line 99: Hamme - Temse - Rupelmonde - Antwerpen L.O

The nearest stations to the centre of the town are "Vichte", "Kortrijk / Courtrai", "Harelbeke", "Bissegem", "Mouscron / Moeskroen".

Zwevegem offers solutions for electric vehicles: 1 stations allow you to recharge your electric car.

The best placed airport in relation to the municipality is "Wevelgem Airport". It is 16 minutes by public transport or 10 minutes by car.

We are not aware of the existence of shared bicycles in this commune. Zwevegem has no shared cars on its territory.