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Social work activities without accommodation

Current registrations 571division 88: 5,536
Starters, 12 months 8414.7 per 100 · Belgium 8.9
Employment (FTE) 34,85070 employers · latest accounts
Median age 3.4 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 69.2%395 of 571 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

No bankruptcy in the past twelve months.

Filed accounts

NACE 88101 · financial year 2025 · 132 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
51.5%
division 50.0% · Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€25,965
division €16,227 · Belgium €16,492
Median equity
€268,156
division €264,024 · Belgium €98,323
Loss-making
26.5%
division 28.3% · Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
6.9%
division 7.3% · Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
6.2%
division 6.0% · Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
1.91
division 1.99 · Belgium 1.66
Filed late
27.5%
financial year 2024, 131 filings · division 25.4% · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
10.1%
of 149 companies with annual accounts · division 6.1% · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year202020212022202320242025
Median solvency 54.8%54.7%50.4%48.4%48.7%51.5%
Median net result €16,446€11,312-€6,011€9,216€22,901€25,965

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Bankruptcies

Bankruptcies, 5 years, still registered
1
0.18% of the registrations · Belgium 1.68%
Running bankruptcies
1
1.8 per 1,000 registrations

Recent bankruptcies

Date Company
30-05-2022 ABR & CO
BE 0635.859.150

Every bankruptcy in division 88, last 90 days

Spread across the country

by region and province · 247 of 571 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 141 · 57.1%
  • Wallonia 69 · 27.9%
  • Brussels 34 · 13.8%
  • Abroad 3 · 1.2%
fewer moremax 54

Largest employers

NACE 88101 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 FamiliehulpSaint-Josse-ten-Noode 9,919 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 i-mensGhent 7,158 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 FERM THUISZORGLeuven 1,359 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 Familiezorg West-VlaanderenBruges 1,293 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 FamiliezorgGhent 1,237 FTEfinancial year 2025

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 62 companies
  • 318.01 Family and elderly care services 23
  • 318.02 Family and elderly care services 13
  • 330 Health institutions and services 12
  • 318 Family and elderly care services 11
  • 337 Auxiliary committee for the non-profit sector 5
  • 331 Flemish welfare and health sector 3
  • 332 French- and German-speaking welfare and health sector 3
  • 200 Auxiliary committee for white-collar workers 2
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  • 322 Temporary agency work and approved local services 2
  • 322.01 Approved companies for local work and services 2
  • 329.02 Socio-cultural sector 2
  • 319 Educational and residential institutions 1
  • 319.01 Educational and residential institutions 1
  • 329 Socio-cultural sector 1
  • 329.01 Socio-cultural sector 1
  • 329.03 Socio-cultural sector 1
  • 330.01 Health institutions and services 1
  • 335 Services and support for business and the self-employed 1

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

Division 88: Social work without accommodation

Related activities

6 other activities

Bankruptcies per year in division 88

Per year201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Bankruptcies192817384822283845414433
Jobs lost14710752138897622330820926524198

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 88

1,076 employers
Median
€60,000
Belgium €61,400
Middle half
€48,200 to €72,600
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
58 of 78
sectors with a median staff cost per FTE, highest first
By size class
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €68,100 €56,800 to €80,500 205
10 to 49 FTE €62,000 €51,700 to €72,300 563
50 to 249 FTE €50,400 €38,400 to €68,800 218
250 FTE or more €43,300 €36,300 to €55,500 90

1 of the 3,823 companies in NACE division 88 have a parent company abroad. Main parent countries: France (1). Together they employ 255 of the division's 111,840 FTE: 0.2%, against 14% for Belgium as a whole.

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €11.35bn awarded 1,324 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Subsidies aan diensten voor gezinszorg en diensten voor logistieke hulp
  • Wallonia-Brussels Federation €860.3m paid 834 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Unnamed in the register
  • Federal transfers 158.5m amount as published 83 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 €125.3m attributed share 21 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Humanitarian Aid
  • EU research €6.0m EU contribution 17 recipients · 2009 to 2027 · largest: Horizon 2020

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Insights on Social work activities without accommodation

Balance sheet and result. Return on equity of 6.2% is below Belgium's 15.9%. The median net result of €25,965 is above Belgium's €16,492. 6.9% of the annual accounts show negative equity, against 12.4% in Belgium.

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

Inflow and structure. In 12 months, 14.7 of 100 companies started, against 8.9 in Belgium. That is more than in 93% of the 87 NACE divisions. Half of the companies are younger than 3.4 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium. 56.7% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium.

Staff and filing. 27.5% of the financial year 2024 accounts were filed late, against 38.4% in Belgium. The 5 largest employers hold 20,966 of the 34,850 FTE: 60.2%.

Direction. Median solvency fell from 54.8% in financial year 2020 to 51.5% in financial year 2025. The median net result rose from €16,446 in financial year 2020 to €25,965 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 88101 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.