Residential care activities
Filed accounts
NACE 87301 · financial year 2025 · 500 filed annual accounts| Per financial year | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median solvency | 29.9% | 32.0% | 31.9% | 32.3% | 31.9% | 32.5% |
| Median net result | €81,617 | €52,323 | €43,592 | €42,962 | €44,990 | €44,402 |
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Bankruptcies
Spread across the country
by region and province · 588 of 591 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat- Wallonia
- Flanders
- Brussels
- Abroad
The balance sheets of division 87 on the map, by municipality and down to the address
Largest employers
NACE 87301 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts- 1 ARMONEAMechelen 2,310 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 2 Vulpia VlaanderenBrasschaat 1,902 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 3 CURANDO O.L.V. van 7 Weeën RuiseledeWingene 1,107 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 4 SLG Operaties VlaanderenKontich 1,095 FTEfinancial year 2025
- 5 GRAVENKASTEELPuurs-Sint-Amands 1,007 FTEfinancial year 2025
Joint committees
from the latest accounts of 368 companies- 330 Health institutions and services 277
- 330.01 Health institutions and services 80
- 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 6
- 201 Independent retail 4
- 318.02 Family and elderly care services 4
- 319.02 Educational and residential institutions 4
- 332 French- and German-speaking welfare and health sector 3
- 322.01 Approved companies for local work and services 2
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- 331 Flemish welfare and health sector 2
- 100 Auxiliary committee for blue-collar workers 1
- 149.01 Electricians: installation and distribution 1
- 302 Hotels and catering 1
- 319.01 Educational and residential institutions 1
- 329 Socio-cultural sector 1
- 337 Auxiliary committee for the non-profit sector 1
Source: the annual accounts at the National Bank. One filing can name more than one committee.
Division 87: Residential care
Related activities
4 other activities| Activity | Registrations | Starters, 12 months | Bankruptcies, 12 months | FTE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residential care activities87302 | 149 | 4 | 2 | 1,225 |
| Residential care activities87304 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 1,372 |
| Residential care activities87303 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 988 |
| Residential care activities87309 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 130 |
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.
Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 87
1,209 employers| Size | Median | Middle half | Employers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
- Wallonia-Brussels Federation €980.8m paid
- Federal transfers 8.7m amount as published
- EU budget
- EU research €695,319 EU contribution
Insights on Residential care activities
Balance sheet and result. The median net result of €44,402 is above Belgium's €16,492. Return on equity of 4.5% is below Belgium's 15.9%. 17.8% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium.
Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.1% is below Belgium's 0.2%.
Inflow and structure. Half of the companies are younger than 31.3 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. Wallonia holds 52.1% of the seats, against 22.7% in Belgium. 0.5% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium.
Staff and filing. 28.2% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.4% in Belgium. The 5 largest employers hold 7,421 of the 38,036 FTE: 19.5%.
Direction. Median solvency rose from 29.9% in financial year 2020 to 32.5% in financial year 2025. The median net result fell from €81,617 in financial year 2020 to €44,402 in financial year 2025.
The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 10-11-2026 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 87301 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 1,276,421 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,557 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. The direction per financial year follows the companies still registered today. 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.