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Residential care activities

NACE 879
Current registrations473
Starters, 12 months · division 87
26
Employment (FTE) · division 87
122,046
Median age · division 87
31.2 years

In NACE division 87, 1.3 companies per 100 started in the past twelve months, against 7.5 nationally; that is lower than that of 93% of the 87 NACE divisions with this figure. Comparison: as of 23-10-2026 19:35.

Key figures for NACE division 87

financial year 2025 · median over 1,412 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
47.6%
higher than 67% of the 79 divisions with this figure
Median equity
€1.2m
higher than 99% of the 79 divisions with this figure
Median net result
€37,778
higher than 89% of the 79 divisions with this figure
Annual accounts in sample
1,412

Foreign control in NACE division 87

1,862 registered companies

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 €53,700 to €76,200 58
10 to 49 FTE €68,300 €61,700 to €75,100 545
50 to 249 FTE €67,600 €63,600 to €72,400 511
250 FTE or more €69,100 €64,900 to €73,000 93

Bankruptcies

past five years
Bankruptcies (5y)
0
Historical share
0.00%

Nationally, 1.61% of current registrations have a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. This sector's historical share is lower than that of 91% of the 88 NACE divisions with this figure. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 87 is 0.0%, against 0.2% nationally, over 1,751 scored companies. Comparison: as of 23-10-2026 19:35.

Regional split

by region · 454 of 473 enterprises with a registered office on file
Wallonia 224 · 49.3%
Flanders 144 · 31.7%
Brussels 86 · 18.9%

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the registered office
fewer moremax 86

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €7.95bn awarded 591 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Persoonsvolgend budget voor personen met een handicap (PVB)
  • Federal transfers 260.1m amount as published 25 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Toelagen OCMW's recht op maatschappelijke integratie
  • 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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How these figures are counted

Current enterprise registrations are counted through their registered main activities; establishment units are excluded. Counted in the KBO's NACE 2025 nomenclature, the one in which code 879 exists.

Share of currently registered companies with a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. Registered main activities in the selected classification can overlap. This retrospective share is not a future bankruptcy probability.

The comparison with the country and with the other NACE divisions comes from a nightly overview of every division, each counted in the nomenclature in which it exists. A standing such as "higher than 80%" counts the other divisions that have the figure. The bankruptcy probability is the median of our nightly score over the division's companies that have one; the count is stated.

The key figures cover the whole NACE division 87, not NACE 879 on its own: there are too few filed annual accounts per five-digit code to compute them separately. The middle company of the sector, based on all filed annual accounts.