Bruxelles / Brussel covers 33.1 km² and has 181,726 inhabitants. The average age is close to 35, and 73% of residents rent their homes. Average net income is €12,801 per year, and households have an average of 0.5 cars. Residents’ recorded nationalities are 64.3% Belgian, 5% French, 4.1% Moroccan, 3.9% Romanian, 2.9% Italian, 2.6% Spanish, 1.5% Polish and 15.8% other. Houses make up 32.7% of the dwellings, while apartment buildings account for 67.3%. The building stock is described as 59% buildings and flat blocks, 27% closed-type houses, 9.1% commercial houses, 3.2% other building types, 1.2% semi-closed houses and 0.5% open-type houses, farms and castles. Buildings date on average from 1932; the average dwelling has about 4.9 rooms.
There are 77 houses for sale in Bruxelles / Brussel. The average asking price is €1,427,481, with current prices ranging from €299,000 to €13,000,000. The municipality has 25 houses for rent, with an average monthly rent of €2,629 and a range of €565 to €11,000. Roads through the area include the N1, N2, N3, N5 and N6. From the centre, access to the A3 / E25 - E40 - E42 towards Leuven, Liège, Eupen and Aachen is 10 minutes away; the R0 Brussels ring can be reached in 12 minutes.
Public transport includes metro lines 1, 2, 5 and 6, among them line 1 from Gare de l’Ouest to Stockel and line 5 from Erasme to Herrmann-Debroux. Tram services include lines 3, 7, 51, 92 and 93, with 13 tram lines serving the municipality in total. The bus network has 92 lines; examples include 46, 53, 65, 71 and 95. Nearby central stations include Bruxelles-Central, Bruxelles-Chapelle, Bruxelles-Congrès, Bruxelles-Nord and Bruxelles-Midi. Families have access to 111 nurseries, 71 nursery schools, 75 primary schools and 58 secondary schools.
For everyday shopping, the municipality has 29 Carrefour supermarkets, 19 Delhaize, 5 Louis Delhaize, 4 LIDL, 1 OKay, 1 SPAR and 1 Delitraiteur. Shared transport options include 76 Villo! bike stations and 28 Cambio car-sharing stations; there are also 38 electric-vehicle charging stations. Brussels Airport is 14 minutes away by car or 44 minutes by public transport. These transport links and the range of house prices sit alongside a housing stock in which both closed-type houses and apartment buildings are common.