Municipality map
Every municipality as one point: how many companies started there against how many went bankrupt, and where the municipality stands on four measures.
Examples
Simple
These figures go down to the municipality. The totals cover all of Belgium, within your filters.
Start-ups against bankruptcies
by municipality · Construction
517 municipalities with at least 50 active companies. A point is larger the more active companies the municipality has. Click a point for that municipality's figures. · Boundaries and population: Statbel · counted on 8 November 2026
Zonhoven among the 565 municipalities
each mark is a municipality · ConstructionMethod and sources
- Every night the active companies, the new companies, the bankruptcies and the bankruptcy probability are counted per municipality. The map goes no finer than the municipality. A postcode or street opens its municipality, and the page says so. The filed balance sheets per postcode, street and address are in Company wealth map.
- The companies come from the KBO every night. 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 is the average staff (FTE) in the latest filed annual accounts.
- New companies and bankruptcies cover the same twelve months as on every market page. The part the map can place is under How we count. A ratio appears only from 20 (new) or 50 (bankruptcies) active companies. The median bankruptcy probability appears only from 30 companies with a score.
- The quadrant places every municipality with at least 50 active companies on two ratios: the new companies per 100 active and the bankruptcies per 1,000 active. The two dashed lines are Belgium's figures. The last per cent of municipalities sits at the edge. The rulers rank a municipality among all municipalities with the figure, the highest first.
- A sole trader appears among the recent incorporations and bankruptcies under its register name.
- The colours are quantiles. Each shade covers roughly the same number of municipalities. Municipalities follow the 2025 division. Boundaries and population (1 January 2024) come from Statbel, as open data.
- 141,977 active companies are not on the map, for want of a Belgian address that can be placed.
Definitions
All figures cover the same twelve months, November 2025 to October 2026, and were counted on 8 November 2026. The same definitions apply on every Checked market page.
- Incorporations in 12 months
- 153,193
- Enterprises with a KBO start date in those twelve months, sole traders included, even if they have stopped since.
- Bankruptcies in 12 months
- 12,147
- Declared bankruptcies the Belgian Official Gazette published in those twelve months, including those of natural persons without an enterprise number.
- Active companies
- 1,975,983
- Enterprises active in the KBO on 8 November 2026, sole traders included.
On this page
The map shows only the companies that can be placed in a municipality. A company stands at its registered office, a sole trader at its establishment. The difference with the national figures is broken down part by part.
| Incorporations | 153,193 |
|---|---|
| stopped or struck off since | -5,193 |
| no address we can place | -4,384 |
| On the map | 143,616 |
| Published bankruptcies | 12,147 |
|---|---|
| natural persons without an enterprise number | -819 |
| second publication for the same company | -52 |
| no longer in the KBO | -184 |
| no address we can place | -2,218 |
| On the map | 8,874 |
| Active companies | 1,975,983 |
|---|---|
| no address we can place | -141,977 |
| On the map | 1,834,006 |