Gooik has 9,170 residents living across 40.2 km². The average age is about 43, and 50.7% of the population is female. Home ownership stands at 80%, average net income per person is €22,106 per year, and households own an average of 1.4 cars. Residents’ nationalities are 96.9% Belgian, 0.4% Dutch, 0.3% Romanian, 0.3% French, 0.3% Italian, 0.2% Polish, 0.2% Portuguese and 1.5% other. No houses are currently listed for rent in Gooik, so there is no monthly rental price reported for houses.
The building stock is 93% houses and 7% apartment buildings, with an average building age of around 1954. Homes have an average of 6.1 rooms. Building types comprise 48.3% open-type houses, farms and castles, 25.2% semi-detached houses, 12.9% closed-type houses, 6.5% buildings and apartment blocks, 4.9% other types and 2.1% commercial houses. Gooik’s businesses include 72 mixed-farming firms, 69 business and management consultancy companies, 43 landscape-service companies, 36 hairdressers and beauty-treatment businesses, 33 electrical-installation firms and 30 companies constructing residential and non-residential buildings.
The N28, N272 and N285 provide local road connections. By car from the centre, it takes about 13 minutes to reach the A10/E40 towards Brussels, Aalst, Ghent, Bruges and Ostend, and about 19 minutes to reach the A8/E429–E42 towards Halle, Tournai and Lille. Gooik is served by 14 bus lines. De Lijn routes include 141, 144, 153, 161 and 162. The nearest stations are Ninove, Okegem, Eichem, Iddergem and Appelterre. There are 5 nurseries, 5 nursery schools and 5 primary schools in the municipality, including Vrije Basisschool - Dorps- School Kester, Gemeentelijke Sportbasisschool De Oester and Vrije Basisschool - De Bron; there is no secondary school. Shopping options include 1 Louis Delhaize and 1 Delhaize.
No public EV charging station is known in Gooik, and shared bikes and shared cars are not available. Brussels Airport is around 30 minutes away by car, or 123 minutes by public transport. These are the available local figures for someone considering a house rental in Gooik, where there are currently 0 houses advertised for rent.
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