Addresses in Merbes-Le-Château (Thuin) where 4,266 inhabitants are distributed over 30.5 km² with slightly more women (50.2%) than men in this municipality. The average age of the inhabitants is about 40 years, they are majority ownership (71%) in their homes and have an average per capita income of 16,413 € net per year. There is an average of 1.3 cars per household or precisely the national average.
The inhabitants come from these different countries:
- 95.4% Belgium
- 2.1% France
- 1.5% Italy
- 0.2% Spain
- 0.1% Morocco
- 0.1% Russia
- 0.1% Burundi
- 0.3% Other
Philippe, Michel, Jean, Frédéric and Eric are the most common first names for men in Merbes-Le-Château and Marie, Isabelle, Nathalie, Françoise and Martine for women.
On average, the homes you come across in Merbes-Le-Château will have 6.4 rooms is higher than the Belgian average (6). The average year of construction of the buildings is 1915 and the dwellings in the municipality are distributed as follows: 97.9% houses and 2.1% apartment buildings.
More specifically, here is the breakdown by type of building:
- 39.4% open type houses, farms, castles
- 35.8% semi-closed type houses
- 18.7% houses of the closed type
- 2.6% other types of buildings
- 2.1% buildings and flat blocks
- 1.5% commercial houses
Multiple companies are located in Merbes-Le-Château and work in these fields:
- 22 firms present in "mixed farming"
- 13 companies active in "hairdressing and other beauty treatment"
- 10 corporations in the field "construction of residential and non-residential buildings"
- 9 firms present in "sale of cars and light motor vehicles"
- 9 corporations active in "landscape service activities"
- 8 corporations in the field "other specialised construction activities n.e.c."
The motorway A15 / E42 (La Louvière - Charleroi - Namur - Liège) is easily accessible to the residents of Merbes-Le-Château: 23 minutes drive is enough from the centre. In addition, there is also access to the A7 / E19 - E42 motorway. (Halle - Nivelles - Mons - (Valenciennes, France)) to 22 minutes.
Access to these roads is easy to Merbes-Le-Château:
- N55
- N 55
- N559
- N561
- N562
As far as children are concerned, the municipality has 2 nurseries (such as the nursery "E. M." or "L. T."), 5 nursery schools ("Ecole Fondamentale Communale" or "Ecole Fondamentale Libre Saint-Vincent"), 5 primary schools (examples: "Ecole Fondamentale Libre Saint-Vincent" or "Ecole Fondamentale Communale") but no secondary school.
You will find 5 lines of bus different lines that stop in Merbes-Le-Château:
- Bus NMBS/SNCB, Line BUS: Tournai -- Mouscron
- Bus TEC, Line 108: Binche - Erquelinnes
- Bus TEC, Line 119: Anderlues - Biercée - Ragnies - Beaumont
- Bus TEC, Line 194: Thuin - Ragnies - Biercée - Thuin
- Bus TEC, Line 21: Binche - Estinnes
Here is the choice in the available stations: "Solre-Sur-Sambre", "Labuissière", "Erquelinnes-Village", "Fontaine-Valmont", "Erquelinnes".
There is no known charging station in the municipality.
The best placed airport in relation to the municipality is "Brussels South Charleroi Airport". It is 110 minutes by public transport or 30 minutes by car.
The commune has no shared bicycles in its territory at the moment. Merbes-Le-Château has no shared cars at the moment.
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