Bruxelles / Brussel has 432 flats for rent, with an average monthly rent of €1,629. Current rents range from €545 to €9,000 per month. The municipality is 33.1 km² in area and has 181,726 residents, whose average age is close to 35. Some 73% of residents rent their homes. Average net income is €12,801 per year, and households have an average of 0.5 cars. Residents’ nationalities are 64.3% Belgian, 5% French, 4.1% Moroccan, 3.9% Romanian, 2.9% Italian, 2.6% Spanish, 1.5% Polish and 15.8% other.
Apartment buildings account for 67.3% of dwellings in the municipality; houses account for 32.7%. The building types are recorded as 59% buildings and flat blocks, 27% closed-type houses, 9.1% commercial houses, 3.2% other types, 1.2% semi-closed houses and 0.5% open-type houses, farms and castles. The average construction year is 1932, and the average dwelling has about 4.9 rooms. For sale, there are 399 flats, averaging €529,687, with prices from €100,000 to €3,950,000. The N1, N2, N3, N5 and N6 serve the area; from the centre, the A3 / E25 - E40 - E42 is 10 minutes away and the R0 Brussels ring is 12 minutes away.
Metro stops serve lines 1, 2, 5 and 6. The municipality also has 13 tram lines, including 3, 7, 51, 92 and 93, and 92 bus lines, among them 46, 53, 65, 71 and 95. Nearby rail stations include Bruxelles-Central, Bruxelles-Chapelle, Bruxelles-Congrès, Bruxelles-Nord and Bruxelles-Midi. Childcare and education options comprise 111 nurseries, 71 nursery schools, 75 primary schools and 58 secondary schools.
For shopping, there are 29 Carrefour supermarkets, 19 Delhaize, 5 Louis Delhaize, 4 LIDL, 1 OKay, 1 SPAR and 1 Delitraiteur. Bike hire is available from 76 Villo! stations, while 28 Cambio stations offer car sharing. The municipality has 38 electric-vehicle charging stations. Brussels Airport is 14 minutes away by car or 44 minutes by public transport. The rental market sits within a housing stock where apartment buildings make up the larger share of dwellings.