Median price in Essen : €319,000 (house) · €270,000 (apartment) · Statbel data 2026
Property Prices Essen (October 2026)
Flanders · Antwerp · 19,630 inhabitants
In brief
- In Essen, a house usually sells for €319,000, in line with a typical municipality in Flanders (€335,000).
- Over one year, this price rose by 2.7%.
- 228 properties sold in one year, as in most municipalities of Flanders.
Official Statbel figures. This is not buying or selling advice.
Median house price
€319,000See the detail+2.7 %over one yearStatbel, prices updated in September 2026
Source: Statbel (Directorate-General Statistics), prices updated in September 2026
These are median prices: half of properties sell for more, half for less. Your property's price depends on its street, size, condition and EPC.
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Everything starts from the median price of Essen for this type of property, shown above. Four things then push it up or down.
- Surface and number of bedrooms: a house larger than the municipality's average is worth more, and the reverse.
- Condition: a property to renovate sells well below the median, a recently renovated one above.
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Living here
Living in Essen, day to day
Schools, transport, climate, neighbours, home insulation: what the municipality offers once the boxes are unpacked.
Is it a pleasant place to live?
Measures accessibility to public transport: train stations, bus/tram stops, line frequency and nearby cycling paths.
Flanders average : 47=
Evaluates proximity and density of educational facilities: nurseries, kindergartens, primary, secondary and higher education.
Flanders average : 37+17
Measures access to daily shops and services: supermarkets, bakeries, pharmacies, restaurants, banks and post offices.
Flanders average : 52-6
Evaluates the availability of accessible green spaces: public parks, gardens, forests, nature reserves and playgrounds.
Flanders average : 72=
Measures the ease of completing daily activities on foot: shops, schools, transport and services accessible without a car.
Flanders average : 47-4
Weighted average of five scores: shops (weight 5), schools (4), transport (3), green spaces (3) and walkability (3). Crime is not included.
Flanders average : 51=
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Living environment
Climate of Essen
RMI normals for 1991-2020, each set against the median Belgian municipality.
Last frost on average on 10 April, first frost on 12 November; growing season from 16 May to 12 October.
Source: RMI (Royal Meteorological Institute), climate statistics of Belgian municipalities, reference period 1991-2020. RMI sheet for the municipality (PDF, in French)
Rail transport
Nearest station
Essen
1.2 km
Nearby stations
Source: iRail
Schools, transport and building work
Building Permits
2024Total permits
Source: Statbel, Building Permits (CC BY 4.0)
Schools
Total schools
11
School density
5.6
per 10,000 pop.
Source: FASE 2026 (Wallonia-Brussels Federation) and Onderwijs Vlaanderen
Public Transport
Total stops
60
Transit density
30.6
stops per 10,000 pop.
Source: GTFS Belgium, SNCB, De Lijn, TEC, STIB (CC BY 4.0)
Who lives here?
Age distribution
Income and jobs
Tax pressure : 21.3 %
Property tax in Essen
Essen levies 875 municipal surcharge points (centimes additionnels) on property withholding tax in 2026, on top of 160 provincial points. For a house with a cadastral income of €1,000, the 2026 property tax comes to about €1,036 a year.
It ranks 41 from the lowest among the 69 municipalities of its province.
Calculate the property tax of a home in EssenSource: Flemish Tax Administration (Vlaamse Belastingdienst), 2026 opcentiemen. Cadastral income indexed with the 2026 coefficient (2.3), regional rate 3.97%.
Offences recorded by the police in 2024
51.4
recorded offences per 1,000 residents
Near medianThis figure counts the offences recorded on the municipality's territory, divided by the number of residents. Towns that receive commuters, shoppers and visitors every day come out higher, because offences against them are counted although they do not live there. It is therefore not a measure of the risk to a resident, which is why we do not give a safety score.
Source: Belgian Federal Police, police crime statistics, offences recorded in 2024 by place of offence. Population: Statbel.
Are homes well insulated?
Regional estimateImmolytics regional estimate, indicative method: standard profile by municipality size. These values do not come from the official EPC register (VEKA).
Essen and its neighbours
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Essen on the 3D map
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See Essen in 3DNeighbourhoods of Essen
Statbel publishes sale prices neighbourhood by neighbourhood once a neighbourhood records at least 16 sales in a year. In Essen, 2 neighbourhoods out of 25 have a published price for at least one year between 2022 and 2024. The others stay grey on the map, with their number of sales.
Heikant is the 2nd cheapest neighbourhood in Essen out of 2, by median house price. It is the neighbourhood with the most sales.
The median price is the middle one: half of the neighbourhood's sales were below it, the other half above. Each price shows the year it refers to.
House prices
- €292,500 to €455,000
- €455,000 to €455,000
- Fewer than 16 sales a year: no published price
Number of sales
- 1 to 2
- 2 to 6
- 6 to 8
- 8 to 15
- 15 to 34
- No data
Median income
- €27,980 to €29,988
- €29,988 to €32,288
- €32,288 to €34,258
- €34,258 to €36,248
- €36,248 to €44,890
Average age
- 35 years to 41 years
- 41 years to 42 years
- 42 years to 43 years
- 43 years to 45 years
- 45 years to 50 years
Households of 3 or more
- 20% to 32%
- 32% to 35%
- 35% to 38%
- 38% to 43%
- 43% to 49%
Owner households
- 35% to 66%
- 66% to 81%
- 81% to 85%
- 85% to 88%
- 88% to 89%
| Neighbourhood | Sales | House | Apartment | Median income |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hondsberg1st cheapest of 2 | 28 in 2024 | €292,500 (2024) | not published | €32,288 |
| Heikant2nd cheapest of 2 | 34 in 2024 | €455,000 (2024) | not published | €36,966 |
| Essen-Centrum | 20 in 2024 | not published | not published | €29,988 |
| Heuvel | 15 in 2024 | not published | not published | €29,075 |
| Horendonk | 15 in 2024 | not published | not published | €34,524 |
| Spijker - Zandstraat | 13 in 2024 | not published | not published | €35,878 |
| Station | 12 in 2024 | not published | not published | €27,980 |
| Wildert Weekendzone-Oost | 11 in 2024 | not published | not published | €36,126 |
| Wildert-West | 10 in 2024 | not published | not published | €37,940 |
| Horendonk-Weekendzone | 8 in 2023 | not published | not published | €30,273 |
| Wildert - Weekendzone-West | 8 in 2024 | not published | not published | €36,248 |
| De Vennen - De Werf | 7 in 2024 | not published | not published | €37,928 |
| Kloosterstraat-Oost | 6 in 2024 | not published | not published | €28,453 |
| Wildert-Oost | 6 in 2024 | not published | not published | €32,852 |
| Veldweg | 6 in 2024 | not published | not published | €32,178 |
| Paardenhoek-Wildertse Duintjes | 6 in 2022 | not published | not published | €29,649 |
| Essen - Hoek | 4 in 2024 | not published | not published | €33,169 |
| Schanker - Scham | 3 in 2024 | not published | not published | €32,157 |
| Vissenheuvel - Zilveren Hoek | 2 in 2024 | not published | not published | €35,243 |
| Wildven | 2 in 2023 | not published | not published | €34,258 |
Show the other 5 neighbourhoods
| Steenpaal - Grote Horendonk | 2 in 2024 | not published | not published | €33,770 |
| Noordeneind - Rouwmoerhoef - Waterwinning | 1 in 2023 | not published | not published | €30,629 |
| Kalmthoutse Hoek | 1 in 2023 | not published | not published | €44,890 |
| Molenwijk - Voortse Hoeve | 1 in 2024 | not published | not published | €33,119 |
| Industriezone | not published | not published | not published | €29,973 |
Value a property in Essen with its address: the calculation then starts from the sales in its neighbourhood, when Statbel publishes a price for it.
Source: Statbel, sales by statistical sector, 2024, CC BY 4.0 licence. Median income: Statbel, tax income 2023. Age and households: Statbel, Census 2021.
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