2023-10-26 16:49:54
Tell me where you live and I’ll tell you how much you earn… Statbel has just revealed the net taxable income of Belgians in 2021 (latest figures available). The national average is €20,357 per inhabitant, compared to 19,671 in 2020. Across the three regions, Flanders comes first (€21,776) ahead of Wallonia (€19,192) and Brussels-Capital (€16,068).
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The top 5 municipalities where the inhabitants are the richest are naturally located in the north of the country: Sint-Martens-Latem (€33,249, or 63.3% above the national average), Keerbergen (€30,516, 49. 9%), Knokke-Heist (€29,961, 47.2%), Hove (€29,684, 45.8%) and Oud-Hervelee (€29,530, 45.1%).
Lasne, the leading Walloon municipality, ranks 6th, ahead of Attert (10th), a locality on the border with the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. We publish below the top 10 municipalities where average incomes are the highest and the top 10 where incomes are the lowest. At the two extremes, we therefore find Lasnes with €29,026 and Farciennes with €13,328. The difference is spectacular, even if we remember that these are averages. Some have even more generous salaries and others much less even though they live in the same place. The three municipalities where the citizens are the poorest in Belgium are located in Brussels: Saint-Josse-ten-Noode (€11,082, -45.6%), Molenbeek-Saint-Jean (€11,774, -42.2%) and Anderlecht (€12,965, -36.3%).
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In the wake of average incomes, Statbel publishes the amounts of unemployment benefits. They amount to 6.787 billion in 2021. During the year 2020, marked by the coronavirus, these allowances experienced a sharp increase, linked to the large number of employees on temporary unemployment. In 2021, this amount decreased, but nevertheless remains high, an increase of 45.1% compared to 2019. In 2021, the total amount collected in Flanders was 3.03 billion, compared to 2.547 billion in Wallonia and 1.209 billion in Brussels.
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