In Charleroi, 202,267 people live across a municipal area of 102.9 km². The average age is 39; women represent 51.2% of residents. Some 54% of inhabitants own their dwelling, and average net income per person is €13,444 per year. The recorded nationalities are 85% Belgian, 5.5% Italian, 1.5% Moroccan, 1.1% French, 1% Turkish, 0.9% Romanian, 0.8% Algerian and 4.1% other. The housing stock is 77.2% houses and 22.8% apartment buildings, with an average of 5.3 rooms per dwelling. Buildings generally date from around 1920. In the building-type breakdown, 21.5% are buildings and flat blocks; 43% are closed-type houses, 23.2% semi-closed-type houses, 6.7% open-type houses, farms or castles, 4.1% commercial houses and 1.6% other types.
There are 69 flats for sale, at an average price of €144,080. Current sale prices range from €57,500 to €325,000. The local business mix includes 565 restaurants and mobile food-service activities, 497 hairdressing and other beauty-treatment firms, 320 companies in residential and non-residential construction, 251 beverage-serving businesses, 243 legal-activity firms and 233 non-specialised food, beverage or tobacco retailers. Supermarket choices listed for the municipality are 18 Carrefour, 9 Aldi, 8 Lidl, 7 Louis Delhaize, 5 Colruyt, 5 Delhaize, 4 Trafic, 4 Intermarché, 2 Match / Smatch and 1 Bio-Planet.
For travel by road, the A54 / E420 entrance is 0 minutes by car from the centre, while access to the A15 / E42 is 7 minutes away. The A54 / E420 connects Nivelles and Charleroi; the A15 / E42 runs via La Louvière, Charleroi, Namur and Liège. Charleroi’s other main roads are the N5, N29, R51, R51b and R51e. TEC tram services include M2, from Charleroi Sud to Anderlues Monument, M3, from Charleroi Sud to Gosselies Fbg de Bruxelles, and M4, from Charleroi Sud to Gilly Soleilmont. A total of 63 bus lines serve the municipality, including lines 1, 18, 28, 710 and 86. Stations include Charleroi-West / Charleroi-Ouest, Charleroi-Zuid / Charleroi-Sud, Lodelinsart, Couillet and Marchienne-Au-Pont.
The municipality has 118 nurseries, 130 nursery schools, 135 primary schools and 37 secondary schools. Examples named locally include Ecole Fondamentale Annexée Vauban - Charleroi and Ecole Fondamentale Du Gros-Fayt at nursery-school level, Ecole Fondamentale Libre Saint-Joseph among the primary schools, and Institut Saint-Andre and Institut Notre-Dame among the secondary schools. There are 6 electric-vehicle charging stations and 3 Cambio shared-car stations, while shared bicycles are not currently available. Brussels South Charleroi Airport can be reached in 4 minutes by car or 29 minutes by public transport.
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