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Investigation and security activities

Current registrations 107division 80: 1,127
Largest region Flanders 44%

No bankruptcy in the past five years.

Spread across the country

by region and province · 50 of 107 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 22 · 44.0%
  • Wallonia 20 · 40.0%
  • Brussels 8 · 16.0%
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Division 80: Security and investigation

Filed accounts of the division

NACE division 80 · financial year 2025 · 573 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
40.0%
Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€13,733
Belgium €16,500
Median equity
€85,231
Belgium €98,350
Loss-making
30.8%
Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
14.0%
Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
16.5%
Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
1.58
Belgium 1.66
Filed late
42.0%
financial year 2024, 541 filings · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
6.3%
of 647 companies with annual accounts · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year20182019202020212022202320242025
Median solvency --36.4%40.2%39.8%39.1%43.0%39.2%
Median net result --€9,733€8,810€13,709€11,887€13,338€13,225
Filed late 40.0%49.0%47.3%44.0%42.5%42.1%42.0%-

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Bankruptcies per year in division 80

Per year201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Bankruptcies24172018176751282515
Jobs lost754967921566227138147722

2026 through August. Every bankruptcy, also of companies that have since left the register. Source: Statbel (Directorate-General Statistics), NACE classification of 2008.

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 80

130 employers
Median
€68,900
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€59,900 to €82,000
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
31 of 78
sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first
By size class
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €69,000 €58,200 to €89,800 52
10 to 49 FTE €72,500 €63,500 to €82,100 51

Foreign control in NACE division 80

797 registered companies

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €16.1m awarded 170 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Vlaams opleidingsverlof (VOV)
  • Wallonia-Brussels Federation €774,386 paid 1 recipient · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Subventions aux associations reconnues à durée indéterminée dans le cadre du décret du 17 juillet 2003
  • Federal transfers 360.8m amount as published 4 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Dotatie aan het FAVV
  • EU budget €228.1m attributed share 10 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Security
  • EU research €17.3m EU contribution 3 recipients · 2007 to 2026 · largest: Horizon 2020

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Insights on Investigation and security activities

Inflow and structure. Wallonia holds 40.0% of the seats, against 22.7% in Belgium. This activity holds 9.5% of the registrations of Security and investigation.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 08-11-2026 05:30.

Method and sources

Every company registered today counts under its main activities in the KBO. Establishment units do not count. Staff counts once, under the employer's first main activity, from its latest accounts and only where it fits the staff costs. The count follows the NACE 2008 classification, the version in which code 80300 exists.

The bankruptcies over five years count only companies still registered today, because the activity of a company that left the register is not kept. So they are fewer than the bankruptcies of those years, and the figure is not a probability for the future. Over twelve months the count is nearly complete, because a bankrupt company stays registered while its bankruptcy runs. A company with more than one main activity counts in each of those sectors.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other NACE divisions rests on an overview of every division, counted again each night. Each division is counted in the version of the NACE classification in which it exists. A standing such as "more than in 80%" compares with the other divisions that have the figure. A division's bankruptcy probability is the median over its companies with a score. Belgium here counts the 1,276,474 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,509 registrations publish no activity.