The current rental selection includes 3 flats in Genappe / Genepiën. Monthly rents range from €650 to €1,250, with an average of €1,017. Apartment buildings account for 10% of dwellings in the municipality, while houses account for 90%. The average home has 6.2 rooms, and buildings were constructed on average in 1938. The wider building stock includes 49.2% detached houses, farms or castles, 22% semi-detached houses, 16.1% terraced houses, 9.7% buildings and apartment blocks, 1.7% commercial houses and 1.3% other types.
The municipality has 15,427 residents and covers 90.3 km². The average age is about 40. Home ownership stands at 74%, and average net income per person is €21,262 a year. Women represent 50.8% of residents. The nationalities represented are 94.3% Belgian, 1.7% French, 0.8% Italian, 0.6% Romanian, 0.5% Portuguese, 0.3% Spanish, 0.2% Polish and 1.6% other. Roads in the area include the N5, N5g, N93, N237 and N271. The R0 entrance is 11 minutes by car from the centre; the A7 / E19 - E42 entrance is 13 minutes away.
Bus connections include 9 lines, with TEC services 19, 28, 365a and 568, as well as express line E4. Their routes link Nivelles with Ottignies, Genappe with Tangissart and Ottignies, Bruxelles with Jumet (Madeleine), Nivelles with Marbais and Fleurus, and Nivelles with Louvain-la-Neuve. No metro or tram service is listed. Nearby stations named for the area are La Roche (Brabant), Villers-La-Ville, Lillois, Faux and Nijvel / Nivelles. Local shopping options comprise 2 Carrefour stores, 1 Louis Delhaize, 1 Delitraiteur, 1 Colruyt and 1 Delhaize.
There are 13 nurseries, including F. F. and Morgane Descamps, as well as 10 nursery schools, 10 primary schools and 1 secondary school, Ecole Secondaire Nespa-Bw. Examples of schools are Ecole Fondamentale Libre Saint-Jean, Ecoles Communales De Genappe, Ecole Fondamentale Communale De Baisy-Thy and Ecole Communale Fondamentale. The commune has 1 electric-vehicle charging station and no shared bicycles or shared cars at present. Brussels South Charleroi Airport is 18 minutes away by car, or 96 minutes by public transport.