Thuin currently has 3 flats for rent. Monthly rents run from €550 to €850, with an average of €717. Across the municipality, 9.3% of dwellings are in apartment buildings and 90.7% are houses. The housing stock averages 5.7 rooms, and buildings date on average from around 1935. In the wider breakdown of building types, 8.8% are buildings and blocks of flats, 42.4% open-type houses, farms or castles, 26.5% semi-detached houses, 17.2% terraced houses, 2.6% other types and 2.4% commercial houses. There are also 2 flats for sale, priced between €110,000 and €268,000, with an average asking price of €189,000.
Thuin is home to 14,702 people in an area of 76.7 km². The average age is 43, 67% of residents own their homes, and average annual net income per capita is €19,015. Women account for 50.6% of the population, while the reported nationalities are 95.9% Belgian, 1.7% Italian, 1.1% French, 0.1% Romanian, 0.1% Chinese, 0.1% Algerian, 0.1% Moroccan and 0.9% other. Households have an average of 1.3 cars. These figures describe the municipality around the current choice of 3 rental flats.
For local journeys, 14 bus lines stop in Thuin. The listed TEC services include 109a, running between Charleroi, Beaumont and Chimay; 109b, between Lobbes, Thuilies and Beaumont; 170, between Charleroi Sud, Jamioulx, Ham-sur-Heure and Vésale; 75, between Goutroux, Gozée and Thuillies; and 91, between Montigny, Thuin, Anderlues, Piéton and Chapelle. The nearest stations to the centre are Thuin, Lobbes, Hourpes, Fontaine-Valmont and Landelies. Roads through the area include the N53, N59, N559, N561 and N579. The A15 / E42 entrance is 14 minutes by car from the centre, and the A54 / E420 entrance is 18 minutes away.
The town has 13 nurseries, 11 nursery schools, 11 primary schools and 3 secondary schools; named examples include Ecole Fondamentale Communale, Institut Notre-Dame and Athenee Royal Thuin. Shops include 1 Louis Delhaize, 1 Trafic, 1 Intermarché, 1 Aldi, 1 Lidl, 1 Carrefour, 1 Colruyt and 1 Delhaize. Thuin does not offer shared bicycles or shared cars, and there is no known charging station for electric vehicles in the municipality. Brussels South Charleroi Airport is 21 minutes away by car or 66 minutes by public transport.