Etterbeek has 146 flats available to rent, at an average monthly rent of €1,585. Current rents run from €630 to €6,400 per month. The commune has 48,367 inhabitants within 3.2 km², with an average age of 36. Women account for 51.8% of residents, and 67% of residents are tenants. Average annual net income per person is €14,815. The population is 52.4% Belgian, 8.3% French, 5.3% Italian, 3.7% Spanish, 3.6% Polish, 3% Romanian, 2.2% German and 21.5% other.
Apartments sit within a housing stock where 65.2% of dwellings are in apartment buildings and 34.8% are houses. The average dwelling has 5 rooms, and buildings generally date from around 1930. Building types are 61.5% buildings and flat blocks, 32% closed-type houses, 5.5% commercial houses, 0.8% semi-closed-type houses and 0.3% other types; open-type houses, farms and castles make up 0%. Road access includes the R21. An entrance to the A3 / E25–E40–E42, on the Brussels–Leuven–Liège–Eupen route, is 6 minutes by car from the centre. The A4 / E411–E25 entrance towards Brussels, Namur and Arlon is also 6 minutes away.
The commune is served by metro lines 1 and 5, with routes from Gare de l’Ouest to Stockel and from Erasme to Herrmann-Debroux. Tram lines 25, 7 and 81 stop in Etterbeek; bus services include lines 34, 36, 59, 60 and 80. Stations near the centre include Merode, Brussel-Schuman / Bruxelles-Schuman, Mouterij / Germoir, Brussel-Luxemburg / Bruxelles-Luxembourg and Etterbeek. Childcare and education options comprise 32 nurseries, 18 nursery schools, 19 primary schools and 10 secondary schools. Named examples include Nos Bulbes, Ecole Communale “Colombe de la Paix”, Complexe Scolaire “La Farandole” & “Les Marronniers”, Go! Atheneum Etterbeek and Centre Scolaire Saint-Michel.
Local grocery shops include 6 Carrefour stores, 4 Delhaize, 2 Louis Delhaize and 1 Colruyt. There are 10 Villo! bicycle stations and 17 Cambio car-sharing stations, as well as 5 electric-car charging stations. Brussels Airport is 10 minutes away by car or 44 minutes by public transport. Etterbeek also has 219 companies in restaurants and mobile food service activities, 175 in public relations and communication activities and 168 in architectural activities.