Municipality map
Compare municipalities by business activity or company balance sheets. Choose a figure and click a municipality to see its details.
Business activity
Companies, starts and bankruptcies by municipality. The cards below show Belgian totals within your filters.
Active companies
1,822,989
on the map; 141,109 without a Belgian address we can placeNew companies
143,162
in 12 months; still active and on the map, of 152,506 incorporationsBankruptcies
7,934
in 12 months; on the map, of 10,959 publishedBankruptcy probability
0.45%
median over 777,755 with a score
Active companies · Total
East Flanders (province) · All companies
378 to 1,6071,608 to 2,1972,198 to 2,8732,874 to 3,6233,624 to 5,0175,018 to 47,752
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How this map is made
- Two nightly counts, side by side. The companies (active, new, bankrupt, the bankruptcy probability) are counted per municipality; the wealth (equity, balance sheet total, cash, reserves) goes on to the postcode, the street and the address. Per 1,000 inhabitants stops at the municipality for every measure: Statbel publishes no population per postcode.
- Companies: every night from the Crossroads Bank for Enterprises; a company or association sits at its registered office, a sole trader at its establishment. The sector is the main activity in NACE 2025; the size the average staff (FTE) in the latest filed annual accounts.
- New and bankruptcies: the same twelve months as on every market page; the part the map can place is under How we count. A ratio only from 20 (new) or 50 (bankruptcies) active companies; the median bankruptcy probability only from 30 companies with a score.
- Wealth: every night from the filed annual accounts; for each active legal entity, the latest balance sheet closed after 29 September 2024 (at most 24 months old). At the registered office: the wealth sits where the seat is registered, not where the plants, shops or staff are.
- Group correction (on by default): a company is left out of a sum in which its Belgian parent, direct or higher up the group, already counts. Parents per the annual accounts (more than half) and the LEI register. Negative equity counts in the total and is also shown apart; a median from 10 companies.
- Only legal entities file accounts: sole traders are never named. A street is shown only from 3 companies, so no one is singled out.
- The colours are quantiles: each shade covers roughly the same number of municipalities. Municipalities as of 2025; boundaries and population (1 January 2024) from Statbel, open data.
- Not on the map, for want of a Belgian address we can place: active companies, count 141,109; companies with recent accounts, count 140.
How we count
Every Checked market page counts the same twelve months, September 2025 to August 2026, from the same nightly count of 29 September 2026. The same question gets the same answer everywhere.
- Incorporations in 12 months
- 152,506
- Enterprises with a KBO start date in those twelve months, sole traders included, even if they have stopped since.
- Bankruptcies in 12 months
- 10,959
- Declared bankruptcies the Belgian Official Gazette published in those twelve months, including those of natural persons without an enterprise number.
- Active companies
- 1,964,098
- Enterprises active in the KBO on 29 September 2026, sole traders included.
On this page
The map counts only what it can place in a municipality: a company at its registered office, a sole trader at its establishment. The rest is below, part by part.
| Incorporations | 152,506 |
|---|---|
| stopped or struck off since | -5,082 |
| no address we can place | -4,262 |
| On the map | 143,162 |
| Published bankruptcies | 10,959 |
|---|---|
| natural persons without an enterprise number | -971 |
| second publication for the same company | -51 |
| no longer in the KBO | -91 |
| no address we can place | -1,912 |
| On the map | 7,934 |
| Active companies | 1,964,098 |
|---|---|
| no address we can place | -141,109 |
| On the map | 1,822,989 |