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Residential care activities

Current registrations 149division 87: 2,026
Starters, 12 months 42.7 per 100 · Belgium 8.9
Bankruptcies, 12 months 213.4 per 1,000 registrations · Belgium 6.2
Employment (FTE) 1,22543 employers · latest accounts
Median age 12.8 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 83.2%124 of 149 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

Filed accounts

NACE 87302 · financial year 2025 · 91 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
26.0%
division 47.5% · Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€19,363
division €38,732 · Belgium €16,516
Median equity
€215,414
division €1.2m · Belgium €98,395
Loss-making
33.3%
division 32.0% · Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
19.8%
division 11.6% · Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
7.9%
division 3.7% · Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
1.01
division 1.65 · Belgium 1.66
Filed late
37.6%
financial year 2024, 93 filings · division 24.9% · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
7.1%
of 99 companies with annual accounts · division 4.7% · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year202020212022202320242025
Median solvency 14.4%17.1%19.3%19.0%20.5%26.0%
Median net result €20,805€6,789€6,388€21,589€29,637€19,363

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Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 5 years, still registered
3
2.01% of the registrations · Belgium 1.68%
Running bankruptcies
2
13.4 per 1,000 registrations

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
07-10-2024 BEGONIA
BE 0744.849.340

Every bankruptcy in division 87, last 90 days

Spread across the country

by region and province · 149 of 149 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 96 · 64.4%
  • Wallonia 28 · 18.8%
  • Brussels 24 · 16.1%
  • Abroad 1 · 0.7%
fewer moremax 29

Largest employers

NACE 87302 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 INTERCOMMUNALE DES SENIORS DES COMMUNES DE LA HAUTE MEUSE LIEGEOISE ET DE LA HESBAYESeraing 407 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 RESIDENCE CHRISTALAINJette 84.1 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 De Bron, voorziening voor huisvesting met dienstverlening en nazorgZottegem 82.7 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 WARLANDISJette 64.0 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 FIPROMATOstend 63.9 FTEfinancial year 2025

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 57 companies
  • 330 Health institutions and services 30
  • 330.01 Health institutions and services 16
  • 302 Hotels and catering 12
  • 145 Horticulture 1
  • 323 Building management, estate agents and domestic staff 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 activities87301 591 5 1 38,036
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 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

1,207 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
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
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

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 activities

Balance sheet and result. 19.8% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium. Return on equity of 7.9% is below Belgium's 15.9%. Solvency of 26.0% is below Belgium's 46.1%.

Bankruptcies. The median bankruptcy probability of 0.1% is below Belgium's 0.2%.

Inflow and structure. 0.0% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. Half of the companies are younger than 12.8 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. Brussels holds 16.2% of the seats, against 12.5% in Belgium.

Staff and filing. The 5 largest employers hold 702 of the 1,225 FTE: 57.3%.

Direction. Median solvency rose from 14.4% in financial year 2020 to 26.0% in financial year 2025.

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 87302 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. 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.