Ronse / Renaix has 26,479 residents across 34.7 km². The average age is 40, and 51% of residents are women. Owners make up 71% of residents, while average annual net income per person is €15,480. Nationalities are 91.8% Belgian, 1.8% Moroccan, 0.9% French, 0.8% Spanish, 0.6% Dutch, 0.5% Italian, 0.5% Romanian and 3.2% other. The average home has 6.1 rooms. Buildings date from around 1936 on average, and the housing stock is 80.8% houses and 19.2% apartment buildings. Across building types, 47% are closed-type houses, 18.4% buildings and flat blocks, 17.5% open-type houses, farms or castles, 12.8% semi-closed houses, 3.3% commercial houses and 1.1% other types.
There are 79 houses for sale in Ronse / Renaix. The average asking price is €372,835, with listings ranging from €75,000 to €1,750,000. For comparison within the local market, 55 flats are listed for sale at an average of €284,993, with prices from €159,500 to €430,615. The area has 1.1 cars per household. The A8 / E429–E42, on the Halle–Tournai route towards Lille, is 11 minutes by car from the centre; the A14 / E17 towards Sint-Niklaas, Ghent and Kortrijk is 22 minutes away. Roads serving the area include the N, N36f, N36, N48b and N48.
Bus services include TEC lines 87 between Ronse / Renaix and Enghien / Edingen, and 97 between Tournai and Renaix / Ronse. Other listed services are De Lijn lines 460, 470 and 61. Nearby stations are Ronse / Renaix, Oudenaarde / Audenarde, Anzegem, Eine and Sint-Denijs-Boekel. The municipality has 7 nurseries, 18 nursery schools, 17 primary schools and 4 secondary schools. Named examples include Mikarolleke and Hubbel En Bubbel nurseries, Vrije Basisschool De Ringelwikke Landelijke Steinerschool Ronse, Vrije Basisschool - Glorieux 3, Vrije Basisschool - Sint-Antonius 3 and Institut Technique De La Communaute Francaise Paramedical.
For groceries, the listed shops are 3 Delhaize stores, 1 Albert Heijn, 1 Aldi, 1 Lidl, 1 Carrefour and 1 Colruyt. No shared bicycles, shared cars or known EV charging stations are listed in the municipality. Wevelgem Airport is 35 minutes away by car or 78 minutes by public transport. The local figures also record 72 hairdressing and beauty firms, 68 restaurants and mobile food businesses, 56 joinery installation firms and 44 residential and non-residential building construction businesses.