The apartment rental listings in Geel sit in a municipality of 110.3 km² with 40,353 inhabitants. The average age is 42, and 72% of residents own their dwelling. Average net income per person is €19,950 a year; households own about 1.2 cars. Men account for 50.2% of residents. The recorded nationalities are 92.6% Belgian, 1.9% Dutch, 0.9% Romanian, 0.7% Polish, 0.3% Afghan, 0.3% Moroccan, 0.2% Indian and 3% other. There are 7 flats for rent, at an average of €1,147 per month. Listed rents range from €765 to €2,350 monthly.
Apartment buildings represent 34.3% of the local building stock, while houses represent 65.7%; the average building dates from around 1973. Across all building types, 32.3% are buildings and flat blocks, 37.1% open-type houses, farms or castles, 18.6% semi-closed houses, 6.3% closed houses, 3.8% other buildings and 1.9% commercial houses. Dwellings have an average of 5.7 rooms. These figures describe the wider housing stock around the available rentals.
The roads serving Geel include the N13, R14, N19, N19g and N71. An entrance to the A13/E313, linking Antwerp, Hasselt and Liège, is 6 minutes by car from the town centre. The A21/E34 entrance is accessible in 18 minutes and serves the direction of Antwerp and Turnhout, continuing towards Eindhoven in the Netherlands. Public transport includes 22 De Lijn bus lines, among them line 19 from Sportpaleis to Deurne Zuid, line 510, the Schoolbus Eppegem–Boortmeerbeek–Haacht, line 84 from Hamont to Geel and line 921, Belbus Geel. Stations closest to the centre are Geel, Olen, Mol, Tielen and Herentals.
For shopping, residents have 2 SPAR stores and 1 each of Carrefour, Colruyt and Delhaize. Geel has 10 nurseries, 18 nursery schools, 18 primary schools and 20 secondary schools; examples include Dol-Fijn Geel, Vrije Basisschool De Leeroase and Kogeka 5. The municipality has 1 Blue-bike rental station and 5 electric-car charging stations, but no shared-car service. Antwerp International Airport (Deurne) is 31 minutes away by car, or 87 minutes by public transport.