Official Belgian data, explained
Buildings by built ground area by municipality in Belgium (2025)
This page maps Buildings by built ground area for one nationally comparable 2025 slice. Every figure below uses the same disclosed definition, unit, geography and source.
Housing
What this indicator measures
Buildings in non-overlapping footprint bands.
Indicator dossier
Data passport
- Selected reference period
- 2025
- Geography
- municipalities
- Boundary set
- Statistical sectors 2025
- Measure
- Buildings
- Unit
- count
- Comparable areas
- 565
- Coverage
- 100%
Latest published slice
How to read the pattern
- Median
- 4,789count
- Unweighted area mean
- 6,662count
- Minimum
- 27count
- Maximum
- 91,106count
Across the valid national comparison set, the median is 4,789 count. Values extend from 27 to 91,106 count. This describes geographic variation; it is not a score of local quality.
Geography
Map of Belgium
- 91,106circle area
- 4,789circle area
- 2,914circle area
Areas
Value distribution
| Value | Areas |
|---|---|
| 27–3,822 | 213 |
| 3,822–7,617 | 205 |
| 7,617–11,412 | 81 |
| 11,412–15,207 | 37 |
| 15,207–19,002 | 10 |
| 19,002–22,797 | 1 |
| 22,797–26,592 | 4 |
| 26,592–30,387 | 6 |
| 30,387–34,182 | 2 |
| 34,182–37,977 | 1 |
| 37,977–41,772 | 0 |
| 41,772–45,567 | 1 |
| 45,567–49,361 | 0 |
| 49,361–53,156 | 0 |
| 53,156–56,951 | 1 |
| 56,951–60,746 | 0 |
| 60,746–64,541 | 0 |
| 64,541–68,336 | 0 |
| 68,336–72,131 | 0 |
| 72,131–75,926 | 1 |
| 75,926–79,721 | 0 |
| 79,721–83,516 | 1 |
| 83,516–87,311 | 0 |
| 87,311–91,106 | 1 |
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municipalities
Highest and lowest values
From 565 comparable areas, the table shows a concise descriptive high-and-low sample. Equal values do not imply equal local circumstances.
| Highest | 1 | Antwerpen | 11002 | 91,106 count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Highest | 2 | Gent | 44021 | 79,994 count |
| Highest | 3 | Charleroi | 52011 | 72,277 count |
| Highest | 4 | Liège | 62063 | 54,106 count |
| Highest | 5 | Brugge | 31005 | 44,934 count |
| Highest | 6 | Mons | 53053 | 35,788 count |
| Highest | 7 | Namur | 92094 | 33,202 count |
| Highest | 8 | La Louvière | 58001 | 30,463 count |
| Highest | 9 | Aalst | 41002 | 30,304 count |
| Highest | 10 | Kortrijk | 34022 | 29,224 count |
| Lowest | 565 | Herstappe | 73028 | 27 count |
| Lowest | 564 | Mesen | 33016 | 498 count |
| Lowest | 563 | Martelange | 81013 | 779 count |
| Lowest | 562 | Daverdisse | 84016 | 846 count |
| Lowest | 561 | Horebeke | 45062 | 856 count |
| Lowest | 560 | Herbeumont | 84029 | 868 count |
| Lowest | 559 | Rouvroy | 85047 | 873 count |
| Lowest | 558 | Spiere-Helkijn | 34043 | 883 count |
| Lowest | 557 | Bever | 23009 | 918 count |
| Lowest | 556 | Fauvillers | 82009 | 1,025 count |
Method and limitations
Method and limitations
No missing value is imputed. Where colour classes are used, their breaks and colours come from the catalogue; source-declared suppression remains missing.
The area mean gives every published geographic area equal weight. It is not weighted by population, exposure or area size.
Every release year is retrospectively coded on the fixed 565-municipality domain used by the 2025 release.
Cadastral building stock at the reference year.
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