Deinze covers 128 km² and has 43,571 inhabitants. The average age is about 42, and women make up 50.5% of the population. Home ownership stands at 72%, while average net income per person is €20,809 a year. Residents are 95.8% Belgian, 0.8% Polish, 0.5% Dutch, 0.4% Romanian, 0.2% Italian, 0.2% Spanish, 0.2% Afghan and 1.9% from other countries. For buyers looking at houses, the current listings include 46 homes for sale. The average asking price is €424,593, with prices ranging from €149,000 to €795,000.
Houses account for 82.4% of the municipality’s dwellings, compared with 17.6% in apartment buildings. Across the housing stock, 44.9% are detached houses, farms or castles; 19.5% are semi-detached houses; 15.6% are terraced houses; 2.3% are commercial houses; and 0.6% fall into other building types. Buildings date on average from around 1961, and homes have an average of 5.9 rooms. The municipality’s building mix also includes 17.1% buildings and blocks of flats. These are shares of the building stock, not of the homes currently listed for sale.
Road access is a practical part of living in Deinze: the centre is a 6-minute drive from the A14/E17, on the Antwerp–Sint-Niklaas–Ghent–Kortrijk–Lille route. The A10/E40, linking Brussels, Aalst, Ghent, Bruges and Ostend, is 11 minutes away by car. The N35, N43, N409, N437 and N440 also pass through the municipality. De Lijn bus services include lines 125, 450, 75, 77 and 87, among 21 bus lines in total. The nearest stations to the centre are Deinze, Eke-Nazareth, Aarsele, De Pinte and Landegem. The supplied transport information lists bus services and rail stations; it gives no metro or tram routes.
Families have access to 22 nurseries, 21 nursery schools, 20 primary schools and 15 secondary schools. Named examples include Ini Mini and Het Troetelland for childcare, Vrije Basisschool and Go! Leefschool Klavertje 4 Nevele for nursery education, and Leiepoort Deinze Campus Sint-Vincentius for secondary education. Grocery options include 4 Carrefour stores, 3 Delhaize, 2 SPAR, 2 Aldi, 1 Albert Heijn, 1 OKay, 1 LIDL and 1 Colruyt. For travel beyond the municipality, Wevelgem Airport is 25 minutes away by car or 39 minutes by public transport. Deinze has 6 electric-car charging stations, 3 Blue-bike stations and 8 Cambio car-share stations. The municipality also has 259 businesses in management consultancy, 208 in mixed farming, 181 in hairdressing and other beauty treatment, 167 in head-office activities, 140 in landscape services and 137 in building construction.
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