Oudenburg has 9,381 residents across 35.6 km². The average age is close to 43, and 81% of residents own their homes. Average net annual income is €18,943. The population is 50.1% women and 49.9% men; nationalities are 97.4% Belgian, 0.6% Romanian, 0.2% Dutch, 0.2% Polish, 0.1% Albanian, 0.1% British, 0.1% French and 1.2% other. The municipality has 6 houses for sale, priced from €230,000 to €920,000, with an average asking price of €428,415.
Houses make up 86.5% of Oudenburg’s building stock, while apartment buildings account for 13.5%. Building types are 40.6% open houses, farms and castles, 23.9% semi-closed houses, 18.6% closed houses, 13% buildings and flat blocks, 2.9% commercial houses and 1.1% other types. Buildings date, on average, to around 1958, and the average home has about 5.6 rooms. The N320, N346, N358, N367 and N368 pass through the municipality. The A10/E40 entrance towards Brussels, Aalst, Ghent, Bruges and Ostend is a 4-minute drive from the centre; access to the A18/E40 towards Bruges, Veurne and Dunkirk is 13 minutes away.
There are 5 nurseries, including Villa Regenboog and Ukkie & Co, alongside 4 nursery schools and 5 primary schools. Examples include Vrije Basisschool - H.familie and Vrije Basisschool De Tandem. Oudenburg has no secondary school. The local shop listed for daily shopping is 1 OKay. Bus services stopping in Oudenburg include De Lijn lines 21, 22, 23, 49 and 52; the listed routes connect places including Jeuk, Montenaken, UZA, Groenplaats, Gent Sint-Pieters, Herzele and Geraardsbergen. The nearest stations to the town centre are Oostende, Zedelgem, Brugge-Sint-Pieters, Brugge and Blankenberge.
No shared bicycles, shared cars or known EV charging stations are listed in the municipality. Ostend-Bruges International Airport is 14 minutes away by car or 77 minutes by public transport. For buyers comparing houses in Oudenburg, the current listings range from €230,000 to €920,000, with 6 houses on the market and an average price of €428,415. The housing stock includes open, semi-closed and closed houses, as well as farms and castles; these are shares of building types across the municipality, not proportions of the homes currently for sale.
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