Houyet has 4,956 residents and covers 122.8 km². Its average age is 40, and women account for 50.8% of the population. About 75% of residents own their dwelling; average net income is €17,268 per person per year. The population is 97% Belgian, 1.5% French, 0.3% Romanian, 0.3% Italian, 0.2% Portuguese, 0.1% Dutch, 0.1% Algerian and 0.6% other. The municipality’s building stock is mostly houses: 94.2% houses and 5.8% apartment buildings. The average dwelling has about 6.3 rooms, and buildings were constructed on average around 1925. The building-type breakdown is 52.6% open-type houses, farms and castles, 25.1% semi-closed houses, 10.4% closed houses, 5.8% other buildings, 5.4% apartment buildings and blocks, and 0.7% commercial houses.
There are currently 0 flats for rent, with a listed average monthly rent of €0; no rental range is available. For context, 9 flats are for sale at an average of €161,000, with the lowest listed at €139,000 and the highest at €179,000. The N94, N95, N910, N911 and N915 serve Houyet by road. The A4/E411–E25 is 7 minutes by car from the centre, on the route between Brussels, Namur, Arlon and Luxembourg. The A15/E42, serving La Louvière, Charleroi, Namur and Liège, is 36 minutes away. Bus services comprise 8 lines, including TEC 141 from Dinant through Beauraing and Gedinne to Graide, line 25 between Dinant and Beauraing, 421 between Beauraing and Hour, 423 between Beauraing and Houyet, and 47 between Ciney and Custinne (Ver). Stations nearest the centre include Houyet, Gendron-Celles, Anseremme, Beauraing and Dinant.
The municipality has 3 nurseries, 6 nursery schools and 6 primary schools, including Ecole Fondamentale Communale. There is no secondary school. The listed supermarket provision is 1 Louis Delhaize. No metro or tram routes are listed. Shared bicycles and shared cars are not available in Houyet, and no electric-vehicle charging station is known. Brussels South Charleroi Airport is 50 minutes away by car; the public-transport journey takes 142 minutes. Apartment buildings and blocks account for 5.4% of the building-type breakdown, within a housing stock where houses remain the predominant form.
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