There is 1 house currently available to rent in Verviers, at €1,100 per month. The municipality has 55,207 inhabitants within 33 km², with an average age of about 39. Women represent 51.2% of residents, and 50% of people are tenants. Average net income per person is €14,245 a year; households have an average of 0.9 cars. Residents are 89.3% Belgian, 1.3% Italian, 1.3% Moroccan, 0.8% Spanish, 0.8% Turkish, 0.7% French, 0.6% Russian and 5.2% other nationalities. Jean, Michel, Philippe, Mohamed and Pierre are common men’s names; Marie, Monique, Maria, Nathalie and Nicole are common women’s names.
Houses make up 78.5% of dwellings in Verviers, compared with 21.5% for apartment buildings. Building types include 45.5% closed-type houses, 19.5% buildings and flat blocks, 13.6% open-type houses, farms and castles, 12% semi-closed-type houses, 8.5% commercial houses and 0.9% other types. The average home has 5.7 rooms, and buildings were constructed on average in 1922. There are 79 houses for sale as well as the 1 rental house; the average sale price is €276,852 and the sale listings range from €49,000 to €1,250,000.
For driving, an entrance to the A27 / E42 is 3 minutes from the town centre, while access to the A3 / E25 - E40 - E42 takes 7 minutes. The N61, N61b, R61, N627 and N640 also pass through the municipality. Verviers has 24 bus lines, including TEC routes 701, 702, 705, 706 and 707. Stations near the centre include Verviers-Paleis / Verviers-Palais, Verviers-Centraal / Verviers-Central, Pepinster, Pepinster-Cité and Dolhain-Gileppe.
Childcare and education options include 47 nurseries, 32 nursery schools, 32 primary schools and 13 secondary schools. Named examples are Kangourou, Ecole Fondamentale Libre Saint-François-Xavier, Ecole Communale Des Boulevards and Institut Sainte-Claire. Grocery and other shopping choices include 6 Delhaize, 2 Louis Delhaize, 2 Trafic, 2 LIDL, 2 Colruyt, 1 Bio-Planet, 1 Match / Smatch, 1 Aldi and 1 Carrefour. Verviers has 3 EV charging stations and 2 Cambio shared-car stations, with no shared bicycles. Liège Airport is 26 minutes away by car and 100 minutes by public transport.
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