Apartment buyers will find 16 flats for sale in Beringen, with an average asking price of €397,523. Prices currently range from €150,000 to €1,100,000. The wider housing stock averages 6.2 rooms per home, and buildings date on average from around 1972. Of the building types recorded, 15.7% are buildings and apartment blocks; 52.2% are open-type houses, farms and castles, 23.3% semi-closed houses, 5.4% closed-type houses, 1.8% other types and 1.6% commercial houses. Overall, houses make up 83.8% of buildings and apartment buildings 16.2%.
The municipality covers 78.6 km² and has 46,346 residents. Average age is about 41, while 78% of residents own their homes. Average net income is €17,266 per person per year. The population is 50.1% men and 49.9% women, with nationalities recorded as 93.7% Belgian, 1.6% Turkish, 1.3% Dutch, 0.8% Bulgarian, 0.7% Italian, 0.3% Polish, 0.2% Romanian and 1.5% other. Beringen is served by 15 bus lines. De Lijn routes include line 23, Centraal Station–Dam–Noorderplaats; line 32, Beringen–Paal–Tessenderlo; line 58, Beringen–Lommel; line 7, Diest–Paal–Beringen; and line 719, the Koersel–Stal–Beverlo demand-responsive bus. Nearby stations are Beringen, Beverlo, Heusden, Zolder and Leopoldsburg / Bourg-Léopold.
The road network includes the N29, N72 and N717. By car, the A13 / E313 entrance is 4 minutes from the town centre, and access to the A2 / E314 takes 9 minutes. For households with children, there are 15 nurseries, 19 nursery schools, 18 primary schools and 6 secondary schools. Named examples include De Speelboom Beringen and Villa Duimelot Bvba; Vrije Basisschool Picard and Vrije Basisschool ‘De Beerring’; Vrije Lagere School - De Buiteling and Go! Basisschool Xplow; and Spectrumcollege Campus Beringen Bovenbouw S and Campus Flx Middenschool.
Grocery options include 3 SPAR stores, 2 Aldi, 2 Delhaize, 1 Albert Heijn, 1 OKay, 1 Carrefour and 1 Colruyt. There are 2 EV charging stations in the municipality, but no shared bicycles or shared cars. Liège Airport can be reached in 40 minutes by car and 187 minutes by public transport. The listed public transport consists of buses and stations; no metro or tram service is listed. Beringen averages 1.4 cars per household, compared with the Belgian average of 1.3.