There are currently 0 apartments for rent in Ternat. The listed rental market has 1 house at €1,650 per month; house sales comprise 14 listings, averaging €432,500 and ranging from €169,000 to €770,000. Ternat has 15,746 inhabitants over 24.7 km². Residents have an average age of 42, and 78% own their dwelling. Average net income per person is €22,146 a year, while women make up 50.7% of the population. Nationalities are 94% Belgian, 1.5% Romanian, 0.8% Polish, 0.5% Italian, 0.4% Congolese, 0.3% Dutch, 0.3% Spanish and 2.2% other. The housing stock consists of 89.4% houses and 10.6% apartment buildings. By building type, 35% are semi-detached houses, 32.5% detached houses, farms or castles, 18.8% terraced houses, 10.2% buildings and blocks of flats, 1.9% commercial houses and 1.6% other types. Homes average 6 rooms, and the buildings date from around 1960.
Road access includes the N208 and N285. The A10/E40 motorway entrance is 2 minutes by car from the centre, while access to the Brussels ring road, the R0, takes 8 minutes. The A10/E40 route runs between Brussels, Aalst, Ghent, Bruges and Ostend. Ternat averages 1.3 cars per household, in line with the country’s average. Bus services with stops in the municipality include De Lijn lines 116, 127, 165, 213 and 355, connecting Ternat with Brussels, Itterbeek, Ninove, Leerbeek, Asse, Teralfene, Aalst and Liedekerke. The stations nearest the centre are Ternat, Sint-Martens-Bodegem, Dilbeek, Asse and Essene-Lombeek. No metro or tram connection is listed.
Childcare provision includes 2 nurseries, among them Zonnetje Ternat and Zonnetje Sint-Katharina-Lombeek. There are also 6 nursery schools, 8 primary schools and 2 secondary schools. Examples are Vrije Basisschool - De Droomgaard, Vrije Basisschool - De Brug, Gemeentelijke Basisschool - De Kiem, Sint-Jozefsinstituut and Katholiek Secundair Onderwijs Ternat - Sint-Angela. For everyday shopping, the town has 1 Albert Heijn, 1 Louis Delhaize, 1 OKay, 1 Aldi, 1 Lidl and 1 Delhaize. Brussels Airport is 20 minutes away by car or 91 minutes by public transport.
No shared bicycle or car service is listed for Ternat, and there is no known charging station in the municipality. Local companies include 78 in business and other management consultancy, 56 in hairdressing and other beauty treatment, 53 in activities of head offices, 43 in computer consultancy, 42 in construction of residential and non-residential buildings, and 33 in restaurants and mobile food service. Apartment buildings form 10.6% of the housing stock, while houses account for 89.4%.