Chaumont-Gistoux currently has 2 flats for rent. Monthly rents average €1,420, with the lowest at €1,250 and the highest at €1,590. The municipality’s 11,798 residents live across 48.3 km². The average age is about 42, 51% of residents are women, and 75% own their homes. Average net income is €23,975 per person per year. Nationalities comprise 94.2% Belgian, 2.1% French, 0.7% Italian, 0.4% Portuguese, 0.3% Spanish, 0.3% Polish, 0.3% Romanian and 1.7% other.
Apartments form a smaller part of the housing stock: 8.4% of dwellings are in apartment buildings, compared with 91.6% in houses. Across the municipality, dwellings average 6.5 rooms and buildings date from around 1957. The building-type mix is 71.4% open-type houses, farms and castles, 14.2% semi-detached houses, 8.2% buildings and apartment blocks, 4% closed-type houses, 1.4% other types and 0.7% commercial houses. The N243 serves the area. The A4/E411–E25 towards Brussels, Namur and Arlon is a 6-minute drive from the centre, while access to the A3/E25–E40–E42 towards Brussels, Leuven, Liège and Eupen takes 21 minutes.
TEC bus services in the commune include line 21, Louvain-la-Neuve–Dion-Le-Mont; line 23, Wavre–Jodoigne; line 33, Eghezée–Perwez–Louvain-la-Neuve–Ottignies; line 543, Brussels–Wavre–Eghezée; and line 6, Mille–Hamme-Mille–Grez–Louvain-la-Neuve. In total, 7 bus lines have stops in Chaumont-Gistoux. The nearest stations to the centre are Louvain-la-Neuve, Gastuche, Basse-Wavre, Wavre and Bierges-Walibi. The commune has 10 nurseries, 6 nursery schools and 6 primary schools, with no secondary school. Daily shopping is served by 2 Carrefour stores, 1 Louis Delhaize, 1 Intermarché and 1 Delhaize.
For electric vehicles, there is 1 charging station. Shared bicycles are not available in the commune at present, and shared cars do not appear to be offered. Brussels Airport is 25 minutes away by car, or 136 minutes by public transport. The current rental supply is 2 flats, with monthly rents from €1,250 to €1,590 and an average of €1,420.