Apartment buyers in Olen are looking at a municipality of 23.1 km² with 12,505 residents. The average age is 42, and 50.4% of residents are men. Some 76% of inhabitants own their home; average net income per person is €19,616 per year. Nationalities are recorded as 96.2% Belgian, 0.9% Dutch, 0.7% Romanian, 0.4% Polish, 0.3% Latvian, 0.2% Portuguese, 0.1% Spanish and 1.3% other. The average home has 5.7 rooms, while buildings in the municipality date from around 1971. Apartments and apartment buildings account for 14.6% of the housing stock, and houses account for 85.4%. In the overall building breakdown, 14% are buildings and apartment blocks; 51.1% are detached houses, farms or castles, 19.3% semi-detached houses, 11.4% terraced houses, 2.3% other building types and 1.8% commercial houses.
There are 20 flats for sale at present. The average asking price is €383,238, with the listed range running from €248,905 to €495,000. Road connections include the N13, N152 and N162. From the centre, the A13/E313 towards Antwerpen, Hasselt and Liège has a stated drive time of 0 minutes, while access to the A21/E34 towards Antwerpen, Turnhout and Eindhoven takes 16 minutes. Olen has 11 bus lines. Among them are De Lijn 15b from Geel to Herentals, 220 from Herentals through Hulshout, Westmeerbeek and Ramsel to Aarschot, 305 between Turnhout, Herentals, Herselt and Leuven, school bus 540, and belbus 946 linking Herentals, Westerlo, Olen, Hulshout and Wiekevorst. Stations nearest the centre are Olen, Herentals, Wolfstee, Bouwel and Geel.
Everyday services include 1 Albert Heijn, 1 SPAR, 1 Carrefour and 1 Delhaize. Childcare provision includes 5 nurseries, with Snuffel and Engeltjes En Bengeltjes 1 among the examples. There are also 5 nursery schools and 5 primary schools; named examples are Vrije Basisschool - Toermalijn, Go! Basisschool Willem Tell and Gemeentelijke Basisschool - De Kriebel. Olen has no secondary school. For getting around without a private car, the municipality has 1 EV charging station, but no shared-bike scheme and no shared cars. Antwerp International Airport (Deurne) is 22 minutes away by car, or 87 minutes by public transport.