Apartment buyers in Gent / Gand will find 171 flats for sale, priced from €75,000 to €1,131,000. The average listed flat price is €334,236. The municipality has 262,219 residents over 157.7 km², with an average age of about 39. Home ownership stands at 50%, and average net income is €18,789 per person per year. Nationalities represented include 85.4% Belgian, 3.9% Bulgarian, 1.5% Turkish, 1.2% Dutch, 0.8% Slovak, 0.5% Afghan, 0.4% Polish and 6.4% other.
Apartment buildings account for 41% of dwellings, compared with 59% houses. Looking across all building types, buildings and flat blocks represent 39.4%; closed-type houses 39.5%; open-type houses, farms and castles 8.6%; semi-closed-type houses 8.5%; commercial houses 3.3%; and other types 0.7%. Homes average 5.3 rooms, and buildings date on average to around 1939. The A10 / E40 and A14 / E17 motorway accesses are each 4 minutes from the centre. The R4b, R4a, R4, N9 and R40 are also among the roads serving Gent / Gand.
Tram and bus services are part of the local transport network: 3 tram lines and 67 bus lines have stops in the municipality. The tram list gives De Lijn lines 1, 2 and 4, while the bus list includes lines 3, 5, 6, 9 and 930. Stations near the centre are Gent-Sint-Pieters / Gand-Saint-Pierre, Gent-Dampoort / Gand-Dampoort, Gentbrugge, Drongen / Tronchiennes and Merelbeke. The municipality has 125 nurseries, 96 nursery schools, 95 primary schools and 88 secondary schools. Grocery choices include 25 Carrefour, 23 Delhaize, 9 Aldi, 6 Louis Delhaize, 6 LIDL, 5 OKay, 5 Colruyt, 4 Albert Heijn, 4 SPAR, 2 Match / Smatch and 1 Bio-Planet.
There are 129 electric charging stations in Gent / Gand, plus 6 Blue-bike stations and 93 Cambio shared-car stations. Households have an average of 0.8 cars. Wevelgem Airport can be reached in 31 minutes by car or 66 minutes using public transport. The current flat listings range from €75,000 to €1,131,000, with an average price of €334,236; these sit within a municipality where apartment buildings form 41% of the dwelling stock.