There is 1 house for rent in Wemmel, listed at €1,775 per month. The municipality has 16,491 inhabitants and covers 8.8 km². About 40 is the average age, 62% of residents own their homes, and average net income per person is €21,287 per year. The population is 84.8% Belgian, 4.4% Romanian, 1.9% French, 1.4% Italian, 1.2% Polish, 1.1% Spanish, 0.8% Moroccan and 4.5% other nationalities; women make up 51.4% of residents.
Houses form 69.3% of Wemmel’s dwellings, compared with 30.7% in apartment buildings. The municipality’s building types include 32.5% closed-type houses, 20.2% open-type houses, farms or castles, and 12.5% semi-closed-type houses. Buildings and blocks of flats represent 28.9% of the stock, while commercial houses account for 2.5% and other building types for 3.4%. Homes average 5.9 rooms, and buildings date on average to around 1963. These figures describe the overall housing stock. For houses to buy, the current average is €634,939, with sale listings ranging from €356,000 to €1,750,000.
From the centre, access to the R0 takes 3 minutes by car; the A12, towards Brussels, Boom and Antwerp, is 4 minutes away. The N290 is also accessible in Wemmel. De Lijn serves the municipality with 11 bus lines, including 240 from Brussels to Wemmel, 241 from Brussels via Wemmel to Drijpikkel, 242 from Brussels via Wemmel to Asse, 245 from Brussels to Dendermonde and 810 from Jette through Dilbeek and Ruisbroek to Halle. The nearest stations to the centre are Zellik, Jette, Bockstael, Sint-Agatha-Berchem / Berchem-Sainte-Agathe and Thurn en Taxis / Tour et Taxis. The transport information lists buses and stations, rather than metro or tram routes.
For groceries, the municipality has 2 Carrefour stores and 1 each of Albert Heijn, Louis Delhaize, Delitraiteur, Lidl, Colruyt and Delhaize. Childcare and education include 7 nurseries, 5 nursery schools, 5 primary schools and 2 secondary schools. The named nurseries are Snoopy and Baby And Co; school examples include Vrije Basisschool - Sint-Jozef and Go! Basisschool Kameleon at nursery level, Vrije Basisschool - Mater Dei and Go! Basisschool Kameleon at primary level, and Go! Middenschool Campus Wemmel and Go! Technisch Atheneum Campus Wemmel at secondary level. There are no known charging stations, and Wemmel does not seem to offer shared bicycles or shared cars. Brussels Airport is 13 minutes away by car and 72 minutes by public transport.