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Public administration and defence; compulsory social security

NACE 84249 · division 84 Public administration and defence
Current registrations 40division 84: 2,285
Starters, 12 months 12.5 per 100 · Belgium 8.9
Employment (FTE) 1483 employers · latest accounts
Median age 18.7 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 95.0%38 of 40 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

No bankruptcy in the past five years.

Spread across the country

by region and province · 33 of 40 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 25 · 75.8%
  • Wallonia 5 · 15.2%
  • Brussels 3 · 9.1%
fewer moremax 13

The balance sheets of division 84 on the map, by municipality and down to the address

Largest employers

NACE 84249 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 Federaal Agentschap voor Nucleaire ControleBrussels 143 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 SECURUMAntwerp 3.3 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 D.V.G.-ServicesSint-Niklaas 2.1 FTEfinancial year 2025

Companies

40 with this main activity

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 3 companies
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 3
  • 121 Cleaning 1
  • 124 Construction 1

Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.

Division 84: Public administration and defence

Related activities

8 other activities
Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security84242 175 2 0 -
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security84250 50 2 0 42
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security84239 32 0 1 32
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security84210 12 0 0 578
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security84220 8 1 0 2
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security84231 6 0 0 -
Show all 8 activities
Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security84241 3 0 0 -
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security84232 2 0 0 -

Filed accounts of the division

NACE division 84 · financial year 2025 · 235 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
53.7%
Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€34,507
Belgium €16,490
Median equity
€1.1m
Belgium €98,313
Loss-making
26.2%
Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
3.5%
Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
3.5%
Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
2.63
Belgium 1.66
Filed late
19.8%
financial year 2024, 243 filings · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
1.6%
of 253 companies with annual accounts · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year20182019202020212022202320242025
Median solvency --54.2%57.6%52.0%51.7%52.0%52.7%
Median net result --€25,847€43,290€23,531€24,398€20,751€29,313
Filed late 21.6%33.0%21.7%23.7%23.6%23.4%19.8%-

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Bankruptcies per year in division 84

Per year201520202024
Bankruptcies112
Jobs lost1303

2024 through September. 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 84

112 employers
Median
€82,100
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€67,700 to €102,300
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
10 of 78
sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first
By size class
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €77,500 €59,200 to €95,700 42
10 to 49 FTE €85,300 €72,100 to €106,000 35
50 to 249 FTE €85,000 €76,000 to €101,600 29

Employers with the highest staff cost per FTE in this division All sectors by staff cost In the Analysis workbench

None of the 2,032 companies in NACE division 84 has a parent company abroad.

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €30.65bn awarded 899 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Vlaams Gemeentefonds
  • Wallonia-Brussels Federation €1.99bn paid 420 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Subventions forfaitaires dans le fondamental
  • Federal transfers 115.82bn amount as published 1,138 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Pensioenen overheidssector
  • EU budget €90.0m attributed share 55 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Horizon Europe
  • EU research €72.8m EU contribution 55 recipients · 2007 to 2026 · largest: Horizon Europe

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Insights on Public administration and defence; compulsory social security

Inflow and structure. Half of the companies are younger than 18.7 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. 17.5% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. Flanders holds 75.8% of the seats, against 64.7% in Belgium.

Staff and filing. The 3 largest employers hold 148 of the 148 FTE: 100.0%.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 11-11-2026 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 84249 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 1,276,472 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,781 registrations publish no activity.

For NACE 84249, 15 annual accounts of financial year 2025 were filed. That is too few for a median, which needs at least 30.

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