Apartment buyers will find a municipality of 22.6 km² with 15,755 inhabitants and an average age of 42. Home ownership stands at 66%, while average annual net income per person is €17,690. Women make up 50.3% of the population. Nationalities represented are 92.1% Belgian, 2.4% Dutch, 1.3% Bulgarian, 1.2% Turkish, 0.3% Romanian, 0.3% German, 0.2% Italian and 2.1% other. Across the housing stock, homes average 6.4 rooms. Buildings have an average age of around 1965; 76.5% are houses and 23.5% are apartment buildings.
The wider building profile consists of 22.5% buildings and flat blocks, 36.4% open-type houses, farms and castles, 22.8% semi-detached houses, 14.3% terraced houses, 2.7% commercial houses and 1.4% other types. There are 92 flats for sale, with prices ranging from €155,000 to €365,000 and an average of €259,004. The municipality currently has 0 flats for rent. Its local business mix includes 82 hairdressing and beauty-treatment firms and 50 restaurants and mobile food-service businesses, alongside 34 management consultancies, 25 specialised construction firms, 23 floor and wall-covering businesses and 23 painting and glazing companies.
Several main roads cross or serve Leopoldsburg / Bourg-Léopold: the N18, N72, N73, N141 and N746. By car, the A13 / E313 entrance towards Antwerpen, Hasselt and Liège is 12 minutes from the centre, while the A2 / E314 entrance towards Leuven, Diest, Genk and Maasmechelen takes 16 minutes to reach. Public transport includes De Lijn bus 15c, linking Geel Industriepark, Mol and Leopoldsburg; 17a, serving Diest and Mol / Leopoldsburg; 302, running between Maaseik, Leopoldsburg and Geel; and 58, between Beringen and Lommel. Belbus Leopoldsburg line 718 is also available. Nearby stations are Leopoldsburg / Bourg-Léopold, Beverlo, Beringen, Balen / Baelen and Heusden.
The municipality has 9 nurseries, with Duimelien and De Boskant among the examples, plus 8 nursery schools, 10 primary schools and 5 secondary schools. School names include Go! Basisschool Ondersteboven, Vrije Basisschool - De Heppening, Vrije Basisschool - Sint-Michiel, Bovenbouw Sint-Michiel and Campus Flx. Grocery options include OKay, SPAR, Aldi and Carrefour, with 1 supermarket of each named chain. There are no shared-bike or shared-car services in the municipality. One EV charging station is available, and Liège Airport can be reached in 49 minutes by car or 187 minutes by public transport.
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