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Social work activities without accommodation

Current registrations 36division 88: 5,537
Starters, 12 months 12.8 per 100 · Belgium 8.9
Employment (FTE) 2729 employers · latest accounts
Median age 10.3 yearsBelgium 8.1 years
E-invoicing via Peppol 72.2%26 of 36 companies in the Peppol Directory · Belgium 85.0%

No bankruptcy in the past five years.

Spread across the country

by region and province · 31 of 36 enterprises with a registered office on file · a sole trader has no published seat
  • Flanders 17 · 54.8%
  • Wallonia 10 · 32.3%
  • Brussels 4 · 12.9%
fewer moremax 6

Largest employers

NACE 88104 as first main activity · staff from the latest accounts
  1. 1 DE STAPPEHove 64.0 FTEfinancial year 2025
  2. 2 AscendereEeklo 52.5 FTEfinancial year 2025
  3. 3 LA BRAISEAnderlecht 42.6 FTEfinancial year 2025
  4. 4 Le RessortGembloux 40.2 FTEfinancial year 2025
  5. 5 Home EmmausGhent 26.6 FTEfinancial year 2025

Companies

36 with this main activity

Joint committees

from the latest accounts of 10 companies
  • 319.01 Educational and residential institutions 7
  • 319.02 Educational and residential institutions 2
  • 302 Hotels and catering 1
  • 319 Educational and residential institutions 1
  • 330 Health institutions and services 1
  • 331 Flemish welfare and health sector 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
Activity Registrations Starters, 12 months Bankruptcies, 12 months FTE
Social work activities without accommodation88101 571 84 0 34,850
Social work activities without accommodation88109 138 29 0 1,370
Social work activities without accommodation88106 74 1 0 541
Social work activities without accommodation88105 45 2 0 637
Social work activities without accommodation88102 33 2 0 151
Social work activities without accommodation88103 14 0 0 480

Filed accounts of the division

NACE division 88 · financial year 2025 · 2,105 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
50.0%
Belgium 46.1%
Median net result
€16,227
Belgium €16,497
Median equity
€264,024
Belgium €98,338
Loss-making
28.3%
Belgium 26.7%
Negative equity
7.3%
Belgium 12.4%
Median return on equity
6.0%
Belgium 15.9%
Median liquidity
1.98
Belgium 1.66
Filed late
25.5%
financial year 2024, 1,854 filings · Belgium 38.4%
Missing or 90 days late
6.1%
of 2,279 companies with annual accounts · Belgium 5.4%
Per financial year20182019202020212022202320242025
Median solvency --51.2%51.0%46.9%46.4%48.4%48.8%
Median net result --€14,623€12,225€4,292€10,898€18,368€14,908
Filed late 27.6%47.1%27.9%28.9%27.7%27.7%25.5%-

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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 3,824 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

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

Inflow and structure. 13.9% of the companies are sole traders, against 41.6% in Belgium. Wallonia holds 32.3% of the seats, against 22.7% in Belgium. Half of the companies are younger than 10.3 years, against 8.1 years in Belgium.

Staff and filing. The 5 largest employers hold 226 of the 272 FTE: 83.2%.

The comparison with Belgium as a whole and with the other divisions is as of 09-11-2026 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 88104 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 1,276,461 companies with a main activity, because only those belong to a division. The other 699,442 registrations publish no activity.

For NACE 88104, 15 annual accounts of financial year 2025 were filed. That is too few for a median, which needs at least 30.