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Residential care activities

NACE 87209 · division 87 Residential care
Current registrations 51division 87: 2,026
Bankruptcies, 12 months 119.6 per 1,000 registrations · Belgium 6.2
Employment (FTE) 89216 employers · latest accounts
Median age 10.4 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 72.5%37 of 51 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

No starter in the past twelve months.

Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 5 years, still registered
1
1.96% of the registrations · Belgium 1.68%
Running bankruptcies
1
19.6 per 1,000 registrations

Recent bankruptcies

Date Company
11-02-2026 NGAMUK
BE 0454.974.639

Every bankruptcy in division 87, last 90 days

Spread across the country

by region and province · 50 of 51 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Wallonia 34 · 68.0%
  • Flanders 14 · 28.0%
  • Brussels 2 · 4.0%
fewer moremax 14

The balance sheets of division 87 on the map, by municipality and down to the address

Largest employers

NACE 87209 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 RESIDENCE LA SAPINIEREMons 226 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 INSTITUT LE FOYER DE ROUCOURTPéruwelz 149 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 ASBL Maison Saint-EdouardStoumont 90.8 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 ALISESMorlanwelz 80.5 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 DE SPIEGELLeuven 53.5 FTEfinancial year 2025

Companies

51 with this main activity

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 16 companies
  • 319.02 Educational and residential institutions 11
  • 330 Health institutions and services 4
  • 319 Educational and residential institutions 2
  • 202 White-collar workers in food retail 1
  • 329.02 Socio-cultural sector 1
  • 332 French- and German-speaking welfare and health sector 1

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

Division 87: Residential care

Related activities

5 other activities
Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Residential care activities87202 325 4 0 20,709
Residential care activities87201 63 0 0 7,326
Residential care activities87205 49 0 0 608
Residential care activities87203 44 0 0 2,108
Residential care activities87204 11 0 0 354

Filed accounts of the division

NACE division 87 · financial year 2025 · 1,513 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
47.5%
Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€38,432
Belgium €16,490
Median equity
€1.2m
Belgium €98,313
Loss-making
31.9%
Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
11.6%
Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
3.7%
Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
1.64
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 year20182019202020212022202320242025
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€37,543
Filed late 26.7%44.8%30.1%28.2%26.6%27.0%24.9%-

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Bankruptcies per year in division 87

Per year201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Bankruptcies10776147631015615
Jobs lost553912747105283128161135151101498

2026 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 87

1,209 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
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €62,900 €53,800 to €76,200 58
10 to 49 FTE €68,300 €61,700 to €75,100 547
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

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 117,591 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)
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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 activities

Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.0% is below Belgium's 0.2%.

Inflow and structure. Wallonia holds 68.0% of the seats, against 22.7% in Belgium. 2.0% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. Half of the companies are younger than 10.4 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium.

Staff and filing. 43.8% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.4% in Belgium. The 5 largest employers hold 600 of the 892 FTE: 67.2%.

Direction. Median solvency fell from 33.9% in financial year 2022 to 28.2% in financial year 2024. The median net result rose from €14,505 in financial year 2022 to €89,420 in financial year 2024.

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 87209 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 87209, 28 annual accounts of financial year 2025 were filed. That is too few for a median, which needs at least 30.

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