Residential care activities

NACE 87

Current registrations 2,026

Starters, 12 months 241.2 per 100 · Belgium 8.9

Bankruptcies, 12 months 73.5 per 1,000 registrations · Belgium 6.2

Employment (FTE) 117,5571,244 employers · latest accounts

Median age 31.1 yearsBelgium 8.1 years

E-invoicing via Peppol 72.4%1,466 of 2,026 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

Activities

NACE division 87 · 17 activities

Activity	Registrations	Starters, 12 months	Bankruptcies, 12 months	FTE
Residential care activities87301	591	5	1	38,036
Residential care activities87202	325	4	0	20,710
Residential care activities87101	320	5	3	28,330
Residential care activities87991	227	1	0	10,215
Residential care activities87302	149	4	2	1,225
Residential care activities87992	140	3	0	2,612
Residential care activities87999	105	2	0	2,456
Residential care activities87201	63	0	0	7,325
Residential care activities87209	51	0	1	863
Residential care activities87205	49	0	0	608
Residential care activities87203	44	0	0	2,108
Residential care activities87304	38	0	0	1,372

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Activity	Registrations	Starters, 12 months	FTE
Residential care activities87109	28	0	226
Residential care activities87204	11	0	354
Residential care activities87303	11	0	988
Residential care activities87309	10	1	130
Residential care activities87910	4	2	-

Filed accounts

NACE division 87 · financial year 2025 · 1,508 filed annual accounts

Median solvency

47.5%

Belgium 46.1%

Median net result

€38,732

Belgium €16,516

Median equity

€1.2m

Belgium €98,395

Loss-making

32.0%

Belgium 26.7%

Negative equity

11.6%

Belgium 12.4%

Median return on equity

3.7%

Belgium 15.9%

Median liquidity

1.65

Belgium 1.66

Filed late

24.9%

financial year 2024, 1,491 filings · Belgium 38.4%

Missing or 90 days late

4.7%

of 1,601 companies with annual accounts · Belgium 5.4%

Per financial year	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
Median solvency	-	-	45.9%	46.8%	44.5%	44.3%	45.7%	47.4%
Median net result	-	-	€53,788	€43,668	€22,307	€37,796	€44,008	€37,778
Filed late	26.7%	44.8%	30.1%	28.2%	26.6%	27.0%	24.9%	-

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Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 87

1,207 employers

Median

€68,000

Belgium €61,400

Middle half

€62,600 to €73,900

half of the employers lie between

Place among sectors

32 of 78

sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first

By size class
Size	Median	Middle half	Employers
fewer than 10 FTE	€62,900	€53,800 to €76,200	58
10 to 49 FTE	€68,300	€61,800 to €75,100	545
50 to 249 FTE	€67,600	€63,700 to €72,400	511
250 FTE or more	€69,100	€64,900 to €73,000	93

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

Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 5 years, still registered

0.44% of the registrations · Belgium 1.68%

Bankruptcies per year in division 87

Per year	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026
Bankruptcies	10	7	7	6	14	7	6	3	10	15	6	15
Jobs lost	55	39	127	47	105	283	128	161	135	151	101	498

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
08-05-2026	HERMIONE Association Sans But Lucratif BE 0628.527.633
09-03-2026	RESIDE ETUDES BRUGES SENIORS BE 0799.737.383
11-02-2026	NGAMUK BE 0454.974.639
02-02-2026	NEUVE COUR BE 0452.905.965
02-02-2026	My-Assist BE 0453.615.451
02-02-2026	LA REPOSEE BE 0859.666.557
02-02-2026	NEW BEAUGENCY BE 0891.267.969
07-10-2024	BEGONIA BE 0744.849.340

Every bankruptcy in division 87, last 90 days

Spread across the country

by region and province · 1,992 of 2,026 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat

Wallonia 909 · 45.6%
Flanders 784 · 39.4%
Brussels 291 · 14.6%
Abroad 8 · 0.4%

West Flanders WVL 181

East Flanders OVL 175

Antwerp ANT 219

Flemish Brabant VLB 139

Limburg LIM 70

Brussels BRU 291

Hainaut HAI 407

Walloon Brabant WBR 96

Namur NAM 117

Liège LIE 229

Luxembourg LUX 60

fewer moremax 407

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Largest employers

NACE division 87 · staff from the latest accounts

1 ARMONEAMechelen 2,310 FTEfinancial year 2025
2 Vulpia VlaanderenBrasschaat 1,902 FTEfinancial year 2025
3 StijnHasselt 1,611 FTEfinancial year 2025
4 Foyer De LorkGeel 1,541 FTEfinancial year 2025
5 De MedemensAntwerp 1,362 FTEfinancial year 2025

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 997 companies

330 Health institutions and services 428
319.02 Educational and residential institutions 196
319.01 Educational and residential institutions 169
330.01 Health institutions and services 130
319 Educational and residential institutions 56
302 Hotels and catering 15
200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 13
332 French- and German-speaking welfare and health sector 10

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331 Flemish welfare and health sector 8
152 Subsidised private schools 6
318.02 Family and elderly care services 6
329.01 Socio-cultural sector 6
100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 5
152.01 Subsidised private schools 4
201 Independent retail 4
225 White-collar workers in subsidised private schools 4
322.01 Approved companies for local work and services 3
329 Socio-cultural sector 3
329.02 Socio-cultural sector 3
215 White-collar workers in the clothing and garment industry 2

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

5 of the 1,860 companies in NACE division 87 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: France (5). Together they employ 146 of the division's 117,557 FTE: 0.1%, against 14% for Belgium as a whole.

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number

Flemish subsidies €7.66bn awarded 587 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Persoonsvolgend budget voor personen met een handicap (PVB)
Federal transfers 8.7m amount as published 21 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Ondersteuning aan de bijdrage van de organisaties van de civiele maatschappij en institutionele actoren in de realisatie van de doelen van de gemeenschappelijke strategische kaders (cf. art. 2.14.6 en 2.14.10 van de wetsbepalingen)
Wallonia-Brussels Federation €980.8m paid 154 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Subventions aux services résidentiels et aux services qui mettent en œuvre un projet éducatif particulier
EU budget 2 recipients · 2021 · largest: Employment and Social Innovation
EU research €695,319 EU contribution 3 recipients · 2018 to 2024 · largest: Horizon 2020

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Insights on Residential care

Balance sheet and result. The median net result of €38,732 is above Belgium's €16,516. Return on equity of 3.7% is below Belgium's 15.9%. 32.0% of the annual accounts close with a loss, against 26.7% in Belgium.

Bankruptcies. In 12 months, 3.5 of 1,000 companies went bankrupt, against 6.2 in Belgium. That is fewer than in 56% of the 87 other NACE divisions. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.0% is below Belgium's 0.2%. By size, the median bankruptcy probability is 0.0% at under 10 FTE, 0.0% at 10 to 49 FTE, 0.0% at 50 to 249 FTE and 0.0% at 250 FTE or more.

Inflow and structure. Half of the companies are younger than 31.1 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. Wallonia holds 45.8% of the seats, against 22.7% in Belgium. 1.7% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium.

Staff and filing. 24.9% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.4% in Belgium. The median staff cost per FTE of €68,015 is above Belgium's €61,417. The 5 largest employers hold 8,726 of the 117,557 FTE: 7.4%.

Direction. Median solvency rose from 45.9% in financial year 2020 to 47.4% in financial year 2025. The median net result fell from €53,788 in financial year 2020 to €37,778 in financial year 2025. In 2025, Statbel counted 6 bankruptcies and 101 jobs lost, against 14 bankruptcies in 2019.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 07-11-2026 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 87 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 1,276,547 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,272 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. Missing or 90 days late counts the companies with accounts missing today, or whose latest were filed more than 90 days after the deadline. The dossier follows the same rule.