Berlaar currently has 2 apartments for rent. Monthly rents range from €895 to €1,100, with an average of €998. The municipality is home to 11,527 people and covers 24.5 km². Its average age is close to 43, 78% of residents own their homes, and the average net income is €19,573 per year. The population is 50.4% women. Nationalities are 95.8% Belgian, 0.8% Portuguese, 0.6% Dutch, 0.6% Romanian, 0.6% Polish, 0.2% Bulgarian, 0.1% Spanish and 1.4% other.
Apartment buildings make up 16.6% of the housing stock in Berlaar, while houses represent 83.4%. The building mix includes 15.6% buildings and flat blocks, 34.9% detached houses, farms or castles, 31.2% semi-detached houses, 12.3% terraced houses, 2.1% commercial houses and 4% other types. The average construction year of buildings is 1961; homes have an average of 5.6 rooms. The N10 runs through the local road network. From the town centre, the A13/E313 entrance is 16 minutes away by car and the A21/E34 entrance is 21 minutes away.
Berlaar has bus stops for 5 lines: De Lijn 297, 570, 571 and 943, and an NMBS/SNCB bus line listed as Tournai–Mouscron. Line 297 runs between Heist-op-den-Berg and Lier Zevenbergen, while line 943 is the Belbus connection for Nijlen, Herenthout, Putte and Heist. Stations closest to the centre are Melkouwen, Berlaar, Heist-Op-Den-Berg, Kessel and Nijlen. Childcare and education facilities include 7 nurseries, 6 nursery schools, 6 primary schools and 1 secondary school, Heilig Hart Van Maria Berlaar. Examples are Roelants Willy-Van Herck Linda, Gemeentelijke Basisschool Berlaar-Heikant and Vrije Basisschool Berlaar. The supermarket choices are 1 Lidl, 1 Carrefour and 1 Delhaize.
There are no shared bicycles or shared cars in Berlaar, and no EV charging station is known in the municipality. Antwerp International Airport (Deurne) is a 24-minute drive or 44 minutes away by public transport. Local companies include 63 hairdressing and beauty-treatment businesses, 44 firms in management consultancy, 34 landscape service businesses, 30 head offices, 29 restaurants and mobile food-service businesses, and 28 electrical installation firms.