Aubel is a municipality of 18.8 km² with 4,288 inhabitants. Its average age is 42, and 66% of residents are homeowners. Average net income per capita is €18,944 per year. The population is 94.3% Belgian, 1.5% Dutch, 1% French, 0.9% Romanian, 0.5% German, 0.3% Italian, 0.2% Spanish and 1.3% other. Apartments are a smaller part of the local housing stock: 15% of dwellings are in apartment buildings, compared with 85% houses. The average dwelling has 6.2 rooms, and buildings were built around 1939 on average. Building types include 14.1% buildings and apartment blocks, alongside 42.4% open-type houses, farms or castles, 20.9% semi-detached houses, 16.5% terraced houses, 3.9% commercial houses and 2.2% other buildings.
There are currently 0 flats for sale in Aubel. The supplied sale-price figures for flats are €0 at both the highest and lowest ends, and the stated average is also €0. The town is served by the N608, N612 and N648. By car, the A27 / E42 entrance towards Battice, Verviers, Malmedy and Sankt-Vith is 7 minutes from the centre; the A3 / E25 - E40 - E42 entrance on the Brussels–Leuven–Liège–Eupen route is 9 minutes away. Public transport includes De Lijn bus 39b, running between Tongeren, Visé and Voeren / Fourons, and TEC buses 139, 339, 712 and 738. Rail stations listed for the area are Welkenraedt, Dolhain-Gileppe, Wezet / Visé, Vise-Frontiere and Verviers-Paleis / Verviers-Palais.
Aubel has 4 nurseries, 3 nursery schools and 3 primary schools, but no secondary school. Ecole Fondamentale Libre and Les Écoles Communales De Saint-Jean-Sart Et La Clouse are among the named schools. Shopping options in the municipality include 1 OKay, 1 Aldi and 1 Carrefour. There are no shared bicycles or shared cars in the municipality, and no known charging station for electric vehicles. Liège Airport can be reached in 27 minutes by car or 100 minutes using public transport. Apartment buildings account for 15% of the housing stock, while the current number of flats listed for sale is 0.