2023-08-29 17:53:24
For several years, the Brussels Region has been experiencing a veritable exodus. Last year, more than 44,000 Brussels residents left to settle elsewhere in Belgium, often in neighboring municipalities of Walloon and Flemish Brabant. But also in Hainaut. Charleroi and La Louvière are very attractive to people from Brussels. Mons too, but with one particularity: there are more people from Mons who left to live in Brussels than the reverse during the past decade. For what ?
“One of the hypotheses is that Mons is a university town” explains Jean-Pierre Hermia, expert in demography for the Brussels Institute for Statistics and Analysis. “As with Leuven and Ghent for example, it is quite possible that following having studied in Mons, many people come to Brussels to enter the job market.“analyzes the demographer.
It is for young adults that the Brussels Region is the most attractive. As they get older, they might dream of elsewhere. From Mons, for example.
This may seem paradoxical: alongside this flight of population to Flanders and Wallonia, Brussels saw its population increase very sharply last year. 18,538 additional inhabitants in 2022. Such a figure had not been recorded for 10 years. It can be explained in particular by international migration and the arrival of many Ukrainians following the conflict triggered by Russia.
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