Wormhout · report
Renovation in Wormhout
In 2025, 21% of the homes authorised were in existing buildings: conversions, extensions and changes of use.
- Homes in existing buildings, 2025
- 21%
Homes authorised in Wormhout: 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 | 96 | 25 | 121 |
| 2023 | 1 | — | 1 |
| 2022 | 89 | 1 | 90 |
| 2021 | 7 | 14 | 21 |
| 2020 | 5 | — | 5 |
| 2019 | 23 | 1 | 24 |
| 2018 | 40 | 2 | 42 |
| 2017 | 34 | — | 34 |
| 2016 | 32 | — | 32 |
| 2015 | 16 | — | 16 |
| 2014 | 30 | 6 | 36 |
| 2013 | 14 | 2 | 16 |
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 €181,980. With 10% down and a 30-year mortgage, the payment is €708 a month. The HCSF caps it at 35% of a household's income.
- Payment, two incomes
- 16%
- Payment, one income
- 32%
Figures for Nord: Wormhout 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 fell by 61 while 6 homes were started.
- Homes started, 2022
- 6
- Population change, 2022
- −61
5.4% of the 2,545 homes counted in the 2023 census stood empty, whether for sale, to let or for other reasons.
- Empty, 2023 census
- 5.4%
- Empty homes
- 137