Orchies · report
Renovation in Orchies
In 2025, 70% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 70%
Homes authorised in Orchies: new buildings and existing ones
Dwellings authorised each year, by the year the permit was granted: in new buildings, and by works on existing buildings (conversions, extensions, changes of use). SDES Sitadel.
- Existing buildings
- New buildings
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| Year | New buildings | Existing buildings | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | 71 | 101 |
| 2024 | 6 | 5 | 11 |
| 2023 | 83 | 2 | 85 |
| 2022 | 58 | 8 | 66 |
| 2021 | 40 | 9 | 49 |
| 2020 | 98 | 58 | 156 |
| 2019 | 8 | 4 | 12 |
| 2018 | 16 | 7 | 23 |
| 2017 | 59 | 5 | 64 |
| 2016 | 122 | 5 | 127 |
| 2015 | 112 | 1 | 113 |
| 2014 | 33 | 13 | 46 |
| 2013 | 104 | 15 | 119 |
Only permits that create dwellings are listed, so renovation that adds no home (refurbishing, insulating, re-roofing) is not counted. A permit is permission to build, not a finished home. The current year is left out until it is complete.
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At the median sale price, a 90 m² home costs €207,270. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €807 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 19%
- Payment, one income
- 39%
Owning a 90 m² apartment costs less each month than renting it. Owning counts interest, running costs and the return the deposit could earn, at apartments' median sale price; rent is the asking rent. Repaying the loan is saving, so it is left out.
- Rent per month
- €1,250
- Owning per month
- €801
Figures for Nord: Orchies has no reliable figures of its own.
10.9% fewer homes were licensed for construction in the last 12 months than in an average year of the past decade.
- Licensed, 12 months
- 12,139
In 2022 the population grew by 6 while 20 homes were started: 0.3 new residents for every new home.
- New residents per new home, 2022
- 0.3
- Population change, 2022
- +6
6.3% of the 4,233 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 6.3%
- Empty homes
- 266