Middelkerke’s housing stock includes 74.7% apartment buildings, and 58.7% of building types are buildings and flat blocks. Across the municipality, homes average 4.9 rooms, below the Belgian average of 6, and buildings date from around 1972 on average. Other building types are 20.4% other types, 7.9% open-type houses, farms and castles, 6.5% closed-type houses, 5.4% semi-closed houses and 1.1% commercial houses. Middelkerke has 19,336 inhabitants spread over 78.8 km². The average age is 50, women account for 50.3% of residents, and 67% of residents own their homes. Average annual net income per person is €18,759. Nationalities are 97% Belgian, 0.5% Dutch, 0.3% French, 0.3% Romanian, 0.2% Polish, 0.2% Italian, 0.1% German and 1.5% other.
There are 5 flats for rent, with an average monthly price of €1,718. The cheapest listed flat is €600 per month and the most expensive is €2,677 per month. The N33, N34, N302, N302a and N318 run through the municipality. A car journey from the centre to the A18/E40 towards Brugge, Veurne and Dunkirk takes 7 minutes; the A10/E40 towards Brussels, Aalst, Gent, Brugge and Oostende is 11 minutes away. De Lijn’s Kusttram, line 0 between De Panne, Oostende and Knokke, serves Middelkerke. There are also 7 bus lines with stops in the municipality; the listed examples are lines 39, 51, 53, 68 and 69.
For daily shopping, the municipality has 2 SPAR stores, 2 Delhaize stores, 1 OKay, 1 Carrefour and 1 Colruyt. Childcare and schools include 3 nurseries, among them Nadine and Groepsopvang De Kastaar, 9 nursery schools and 10 primary schools. Gemeentelijke Basisschool - Middelkerke 1 and Vrije Basisschool St-Lutgardis are named examples. There is no secondary school in Middelkerke. Households average 0.9 cars, compared with 1.3 nationally. No shared bicycles or shared cars are available at present; 1 electric-vehicle charging station is available. Ostend-Bruges International Airport is 33 minutes away by public transport or 7 minutes by car.