Apartment buyers will find a municipality with a small share of apartment buildings in its housing stock. Cerfontaine covers 83.4 km² and has 4,923 residents, with an average age of 40; 50.1% of residents are women. Home ownership stands at 71%, and average net income per person is €16,777 per year. Residents are 97.8% Belgian, 0.9% French, 0.4% Italian, 0.3% Romanian, 0.1% German, 0.1% Greek, 0.1% Albanian and 0.4% other nationalities. Overall, 95.6% of buildings are houses and 4.4% are apartment buildings. The average home has 6.3 rooms, and buildings date from around 1925 on average. The building mix is 34.6% open houses, farms and castles, 24.5% semi-detached houses, 20.8% terraced houses, 14.7% other types, 3.6% apartment blocks and 1.8% commercial houses.
There are currently 0 apartments for sale in Cerfontaine. The supplied average, highest and lowest prices for apartments for sale are each €0. For comparison within the local housing market, houses have an average asking price of €228,024, with a lowest price of €70,000 and a highest price of €425,000. Road access includes the N40, N589a, N589, N599 and N907. From central Cerfontaine, the A54/E420 towards Nivelles and Charleroi is around 30 minutes away, while access to the A15/E42 towards La Louvière, Charleroi, Namur and Liège takes about 33 minutes. TEC bus services include line 132a (Walcourt–Cerfontaine–Philippeville), 136a (Florennes–Yves-Gomezée–Walcourt), 136d (Florennes–Philippeville–Rance), 561 (Philippeville–Walcourt–Thy-le-Château) and the Rbus (Walcourt–Froidchapelle). Nearby station options listed are Philippeville, Yves-Gomezée, Walcourt, Pry and Mariembourg.
The municipality has 3 nurseries, 6 nursery schools and 6 primary schools. Named examples are Cerfontaine - Les P'Tits Loustics and G. L. for childcare, and Ecole Fondamentale Communale and Ecole Fondamentale Communale De Cerfontaine -Villages for schooling. There is no secondary school in Cerfontaine. For everyday groceries, there is 1 Louis Delhaize and 1 Carrefour. No shared bicycles or shared cars are known in the commune, and no electric-vehicle charging station is known there. Brussels South Charleroi Airport can be reached in about 33 minutes by car; the public-transport journey takes 123 minutes.