Wemmel has 7 flats for rent, with monthly rents ranging from €900 to €2,600. The average rent is €1,484 per month. The municipality’s 16,491 residents live across 8.8 km²; their average age is about 40, and 62% own their homes. Average net income per person is €21,287 a year. Residents are 84.8% Belgian, 4.4% Romanian, 1.9% French, 1.4% Italian, 1.2% Polish, 1.1% Spanish, 0.8% Moroccan and 4.5% other nationalities. Women account for 51.4% of the population.
Apartment buildings represent 30.7% of Wemmel’s dwellings, while houses make up 69.3%. The broader building breakdown records 28.9% as buildings and blocks of flats, alongside 32.5% closed-type houses, 20.2% open-type houses, farms or castles and 12.5% semi-closed-type houses. Commercial houses account for 2.5%, and other types of buildings for 3.4%. Homes have an average of 5.9 rooms, and buildings date on average to around 1963. For comparison within the sale market, 25 flats are listed for sale at an average of €329,018, with prices from €165,000 to €585,000.
The R0 is 3 minutes by car from the centre, and the A12 is 4 minutes away, with routes towards Brussels, Boom and Antwerp. The N290 also provides road access. There are 11 De Lijn bus lines serving Wemmel; examples are 240 between Brussels and Wemmel, 241 between Brussels, Wemmel and Drijpikkel, 242 between Brussels, Wemmel and Asse, 245 between Brussels and Dendermonde, and 810 between Jette, Dilbeek, Ruisbroek and Halle. Nearby stations are Zellik, Jette, Bockstael, Sint-Agatha-Berchem / Berchem-Sainte-Agathe and Thurn en Taxis / Tour et Taxis. No metro or tram route is listed in the transport details.
Residents can shop at 2 Carrefour stores and 1 each of Albert Heijn, Louis Delhaize, Delitraiteur, Lidl, Colruyt and Delhaize. The municipality has 7 nurseries, 5 nursery schools, 5 primary schools and 2 secondary schools. Examples are Snoopy and Baby And Co nurseries; Vrije Basisschool - Sint-Jozef and Go! Basisschool Kameleon nursery schools; Vrije Basisschool - Mater Dei and Go! Basisschool Kameleon primary schools; and Go! Middenschool Campus Wemmel and Go! Technisch Atheneum Campus Wemmel secondary schools. No charging station is known locally, and shared bicycles and shared cars do not seem to be available. Brussels Airport is 13 minutes away by car or 72 minutes by public transport.