Services to buildings and landscape activities
Activities
NACE division 81 · 5 activities| Activity | Registrations | Starters, 12 months | Bankruptcies, 12 months | FTE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Landscape service activities81300 | 21,089 | 2,265 | 77 | 6,615 |
| Other building cleaning and industrial cleaning81220 | 6,862 | 857 | 90 | 26,667 |
| General cleaning of buildings81210 | 6,671 | 1,432 | 101 | 30,645 |
| Other cleaning activities81230 | 1,699 | 314 | 13 | 2,184 |
| Combined facilities support activities81100 | 1,254 | 97 | 6 | 4,802 |
Filed accounts
NACE division 81 · financial year 2025 · 8,889 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median solvency | - | - | 37.1% | 38.6% | 38.8% | 40.0% | 40.6% | 40.9% |
| Median net result | - | - | €10,716 | €12,207 | €11,875 | €10,274 | €11,267 | €11,541 |
| Filed late | 45.0% | 52.2% | 49.4% | 48.4% | 45.9% | 45.2% | 43.5% | - |
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Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 81
1,075 employers| Size | Median | Middle half | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| fewer than 10 FTE | €51,500 | €42,900 to €61,400 | 594 |
| 10 to 49 FTE | €51,200 | €43,400 to €61,700 | 324 |
| 50 to 249 FTE | €46,700 | €36,600 to €62,700 | 111 |
| 250 FTE or more | €38,600 | €33,100 to €45,400 | 46 |
Employers with the highest staff cost per FTE in this division All sectors by staff cost In the Analysis workbench
Bankruptcies
Bankruptcies per year in division 81
| Per year | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bankruptcies | 346 | 307 | 346 | 307 | 339 | 249 | 248 | 310 | 339 | 383 | 389 | 304 |
| Jobs lost | 2,138 | 1,695 | 1,643 | 1,088 | 2,464 | 576 | 990 | 881 | 1,168 | 1,342 | 1,317 | 1,325 |
2026 through September. Every bankruptcy, also of companies that have since left the register. Source: Statbel (Directorate-General Statistics), NACE classification of 2008.
Recent bankruptcies
| Date | Company |
|---|---|
| 03-11-2026 | CAPITAL SERVICES
BE 1021.306.070 |
| 30-10-2026 | Deghislage, Thibaut
BE 0633.632.209 · sole trader · Morlanwelz |
| 30-10-2026 | CLEANING & Co
BE 0711.890.225 |
| 30-10-2026 | CLEANING4YOU
BE 0725.716.881 |
| 30-10-2026 | AS TECH COMPANY
BE 0782.221.064 |
| 30-10-2026 | Washing Drône
BE 1017.249.985 |
| 29-10-2026 | Ven, Robin
BE 0681.972.356 · sole trader · Aarschot |
| 28-10-2026 | @2MAINS
BE 0829.865.781 |
Running bankruptcies in the sector
NACE division 81Measured nationally: Of 108,606 bankruptcies of legal entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 29% after liquidation, 3% were withdrawn. After five years, 20% were still open. Half had ended after 26 months (a quarter after 15, three quarters after 51 months).
This counts companies with this main activity in the register on 5 November 2026. The outcome itself is not measured by sector. The activity of a company that leaves the register after its bankruptcy is too often not kept to compare closed cases fairly.
Spread across the country
by region and province · 13,522 of 36,791 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat- Flanders
- Wallonia
- Brussels
- Abroad
This sector's balance sheets on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Largest employers
NACE division 81 · staff from the latest accounts- 1 ISS FACILITY SERVICESBrussels 5,283 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 2 TRIXXO IXBilzen-Hoeselt 3,779 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 ALDRONWaregem 2,482 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 4 LAURENTYLiège 2,454 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 5 DIENSTENBEDRIJF EASY LIFEWommelgem 2,241 FTEfinancial year 2025
Joint committees
from the latest accounts of 2,477 companies- 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 1,007
- 145 Horticulture 904
- 121 Cleaning 846
- 124 Construction 308
- 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 80
- 322.01 Approved companies for local work and services 58
- 201 Independent retail 50
- 302 Hotels and catering 38
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- 323 Building management, estate agents and domestic staff 33
- 132 Technical farming and horticulture work 27
- 140.03 Road transport and logistics for third parties 26
- 111 Metal, mechanical and electrical engineering 23
- 209 White-collar workers in metal manufacturing 17
- 116 Chemical industry 15
- 119 Food trade 15
- 149.01 Electricians: installation and distribution 15
- 226 White-collar workers in international trade, transport and logistics 11
- 149.04 Metal trade 10
- 140 Transport and logistics 9
- 144 Agriculture 9
Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.
15 of the 12,187 companies in NACE division 81 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: Netherlands (5), France (3) and Luxembourg (3). Together they employ 2,496 of the division's 70,913 FTE: 3.5%, against 14% for Belgium as a whole.
Subsidies in this sector
per register · legal entities with an enterprise number- Flemish subsidies €1.53bn awarded
- Federal transfers 231.4m amount as published
- Wallonia-Brussels Federation €2.3m paid
- EU budget €255.2m attributed share
- EU research €2.9m EU contribution
Insights on Building services and landscaping
Balance sheet and result. The median net result of €12,289 is below Belgium's €16,539. 10.1% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium. Solvency of 40.2% is below Belgium's 46.1%.
Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.9% is above Belgium's 0.2%. In 12 months, 7.5 of 1,000 companies went bankrupt, against 6.2 in Belgium. That is more than in 77% of the 87 other NACE divisions. By size, the median bankruptcy probability is 0.9% at under 10 FTE, 0.3% at 10 to 49 FTE, 0.3% at 50 to 249 FTE and 0.4% at 250 FTE or more.
Inflow and structure. 63.2% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. In 12 months, 13.4 of 100 companies started, against 8.8 in Belgium. That is more than in 93% of the 86 other NACE divisions. Half of the companies are younger than 6.2 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium.
Staff and filing. The median staff cost per FTE of €50,462 is below Belgium's €61,416. 43.5% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.4% in Belgium. The 5 largest employers hold 16,239 of the 70,913 FTE: 22.9%.
Direction. Median solvency rose from 37.1% in financial year 2020 to 40.9% in financial year 2025. In 2025, Statbel counted 389 bankruptcies and 1,317 jobs lost, against 249 bankruptcies in 2020.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 05-11-2026 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 2025 classification, the version in which code 81 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 1,275,887 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,448 registrations publish no activity.
Each median is the value of the middle company, computed over the annual accounts of financial year 2025, and is shown only from 30 accounts. A share (loss-making, negative equity) counts that year's accounts with that trait. Accounts are late when they are filed after the statutory deadline.