Aartselaar covers 11 km² and has 14,293 inhabitants. The average age is close to 45, and 50.4% of residents are women. Homeowners make up 79% of the population, and average net income is €23,564 per year. The nationalities represented are 94.5% Belgian, 1.1% Dutch, 0.4% Romanian, 0.4% Polish, 0.4% Moroccan, 0.3% Spanish, 0.3% Portuguese and 2.7% other. The housing stock averages 5.6 rooms per dwelling. Houses account for 70.8% of dwellings and apartment buildings for 29.2%; building types include 29% closed-type houses, 19.5% semi-closed houses, 19.2% open-type houses, farms and castles, 27.9% buildings and blocks of flats, 3% other buildings and 1.3% commercial houses.
There are 10 houses for sale in Aartselaar. The average asking price is €671,698, with listings ranging from €249,000 to €2,300,000. The A12, running between Brussels, Boom and Antwerp and onward towards Bergen op Zoom, is about a 1-minute drive from the centre. The A1/E19 towards Brussels, Mechelen and Antwerp is about 5 minutes away, and the N177 also serves the area. Bus services include De Lijn lines 180, 181, 182, 183 and 500, among 10 lines in total. The nearest railway stations to the centre are Schelle, Hemiksem, Niel, Boom and Hove.
For families, the municipality has 4 nurseries, 4 nursery schools, 3 primary schools and 1 secondary school. Named options include Kinderopvang “speel-Goed” Bvba and Gloria for childcare, Gemeentelijke Basisschool Cade and Vrije Basisschool - Sint-Jozefschool at nursery level, Go! Basisschool De Blokkendoos and Gemeentelijke Basisschool Cade for primary education, and Go! Middenschool Den Brandt Boom for secondary education. Shopping options include 2 Delhaize supermarkets and 1 Carrefour. The local business mix includes 142 firms in management consultancy, 64 in computer consultancy, 56 head offices, 54 hairdressing and beauty businesses, 41 legal firms and 40 restaurants or mobile food-service businesses.
There are 6 electric-car charging stations in Aartselaar. The municipality has no shared bicycle or shared-car service. Antwerp International Airport in Deurne is 13 minutes away by car or 47 minutes by public transport. These road, bus and airport connections sit alongside a housing stock where houses form the larger share of dwellings, with the listed house prices spanning €249,000 to €2,300,000.