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Residential care activities

Current registrations 227division 87: 2,026
Starters, 12 months 10.4 per 100 · Belgium 8.9
Employment (FTE) 10,220191 employers · latest accounts
Median age 49.0 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 63.0%143 of 227 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

No bankruptcy in the past five years.

Filed accounts

NACE 87991 · financial year 2025 · 205 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
60.0%
division 47.5% · Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€19,104
division €38,607 · Belgium €16,500
Median equity
€898,217
division €1.2m · Belgium €98,350
Loss-making
29.3%
division 31.9% · Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
1.5%
division 11.6% · Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
2.4%
division 3.7% · Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
2.11
division 1.65 · Belgium 1.66
Filed late
11.1%
financial year 2024, 208 filings · division 24.9% · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
2.4%
of 209 companies with annual accounts · division 4.7% · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year202020212022202320242025
Median solvency 62.9%62.1%60.0%60.7%59.7%60.0%
Median net result €22,417€24,311€11,339€25,671€32,735€19,104

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Spread across the country

by region and province · 224 of 227 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Wallonia 110 · 49.1%
  • Flanders 87 · 38.8%
  • Brussels 27 · 12.1%
fewer moremax 46

Largest employers

NACE 87991 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 Jeugdhulp Don Bosco VlaanderenEeklo 342 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 Maison HeureuseLiège 331 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 KIOSKWommelgem 324 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 XPLORoeselare 269 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 Ruyskensveld vzwAalst 201 FTEfinancial year 2025

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 131 companies
  • 319.01 Educational and residential institutions 67
  • 319.02 Educational and residential institutions 54
  • 319 Educational and residential institutions 9
  • 329.01 Socio-cultural sector 3
  • 331 Flemish welfare and health sector 1
  • 332 French- and German-speaking welfare and health 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

3 other activities
Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Residential care activities87992 140 3 0 2,612
Residential care activities87999 105 2 0 2,456
Residential care activities87910 4 2 0 -

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

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. 1.5% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium. Return on equity of 2.4% is below Belgium's 15.9%. Solvency of 60.0% is above Belgium's 46.1%.

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

Inflow and structure. Half of the companies are younger than 49.0 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. Wallonia holds 49.1% of the seats, against 22.7% in Belgium. 1.3% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium.

Staff and filing. 11.1% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.4% in Belgium. The 5 largest employers hold 1,467 of the 10,220 FTE: 14.4%.

Direction. Median solvency fell from 62.9% in financial year 2020 to 60.0% in financial year 2025. The median net result fell from €22,417 in financial year 2020 to €19,104 in financial year 2025.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 08-11-2026 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 87991 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 1,276,474 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,509 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.