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Compare municipalities by business activity: where companies are based, start and go bankrupt. Choose a figure and click a municipality; the map goes down to the municipality.
Business activity
Companies, starts and bankruptcies by municipality: the map goes down to the municipality. The cards below show Belgian totals within your filters.
Active companies · Total
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Lowest in Belgium: Active companies · Total
249 municipalities share the lowest figure: 0.
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How this map is made
- One nightly count per municipality: active companies, new companies, bankruptcies and the bankruptcy probability. This 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.
- 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.
- A sole trader appears among the recent incorporations and bankruptcies under its register name, never with a home address.
- 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 141,347.
How we count
Every Checked market page counts the same twelve months, October 2025 to September 2026, from the same nightly count of 1 October 2026. The same question gets the same answer everywhere.
- Incorporations in 12 months
- 151,657
- Enterprises with a KBO start date in those twelve months, sole traders included, even if they have stopped since.
- Bankruptcies in 12 months
- 12,264
- Declared bankruptcies the Belgian Official Gazette published in those twelve months, including those of natural persons without an enterprise number.
- Active companies
- 1,964,159
- Enterprises active in the KBO on 1 October 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 | 151,657 |
|---|---|
| stopped or struck off since | -4,770 |
| no address we can place | -4,280 |
| On the map | 142,607 |
| Published bankruptcies | 12,264 |
|---|---|
| natural persons without an enterprise number | -859 |
| second publication for the same company | -59 |
| no longer in the KBO | -214 |
| no address we can place | -2,095 |
| On the map | 9,037 |
| Active companies | 1,964,159 |
|---|---|
| no address we can place | -141,347 |
| On the map | 1,822,812 |