Gooik’s rental listings currently include 0 apartments, and no monthly apartment rent is listed. The municipality has 9,170 inhabitants and covers 40.2 km². Residents have an average age of about 43; 50.7% are women. About 80% own their homes, and average net income per person is €22,106 a year. The population’s nationalities are 96.9% Belgian, 0.4% Dutch, 0.3% Romanian, 0.3% French, 0.3% Italian, 0.2% Polish, 0.2% Portuguese and 1.5% other. Households own an average of 1.4 cars.
Apartment buildings make up 7% of Gooik’s buildings, while houses account for 93%. The average age of buildings is around 1954, and homes average 6.1 rooms. The full mix of building types is 48.3% open-type houses, farms and castles, 25.2% semi-detached houses, 12.9% closed-type houses, 6.5% buildings and apartment blocks, 4.9% other types and 2.1% commercial houses. Local economic activity includes 72 mixed-farming firms, 69 business and other management consultancy companies, 43 landscape-service businesses, 36 hairdressers and beauty-treatment businesses, 33 electrical-installation firms and 30 residential and non-residential construction companies.
Bus connections include 14 lines in total, with De Lijn routes 141, 144, 153, 161 and 162 among them. The nearest stations to the centre are Ninove, Okegem, Eichem, Iddergem and Appelterre. By road, the N28, N272 and N285 serve Gooik. The A10/E40 towards Brussels, Aalst, Ghent, Bruges and Ostend is about 13 minutes from the centre by car; the A8/E429–E42 towards Halle, Tournai and Lille is about 19 minutes away. Gooik has 5 nurseries, 5 nursery schools and 5 primary schools, including Vrije Basisschool - Dorps- School Kester, Gemeentelijke Sportbasisschool De Oester and Vrije Basisschool - De Bron. There is no secondary school. Shops in the municipality include 1 Louis Delhaize and 1 Delhaize.
There are no known EV charging stations in Gooik, and no shared-bike or shared-car service is available. Brussels Airport can be reached in about 30 minutes by car or 123 minutes by public transport. These local connections and services sit alongside the current apartment-rental listing count of 0.