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In total. However. Nevertheless, over the past 20 years, 12 Walloon municipalities have lost residents: Vresse-sur-Semois, Spa, La Roche-en-Ardenne, Esneux, Bouillon, Chaudfontaine, Pepinster, Dour, Saint-Hubert, Viroinval, Chimay et Antoing. Moreover, With falls of -11 % at -0.03 %. Furthermore, Different explanations can explain these trends: access to employment basins, aging of the population which is not renewed …
Click on the map below to discover the number of inhabitants of your town in 2005. Similarly, that in 2025, evolution over births, death, immigration …: space 20 years and the situation compared to the region.
Elected in 2018 with the label of “younger mayor of Wallonia. Meanwhile. However, from a commune to the aging births, death, immigration …: space new population”, Arnaud Allard had made the demographic issue one of his concerns for Vresse-sur-Semois. Moreover, The 2025 figures, the first year of his second term, confirm that the trend has not been reversed.
“We believed that we were going to benefit from a positive effect at the exit of the covid. Consequently, especially due to the increase in telework. Furthermore, But that was not the case.” Long-work home trips are a brake for potential new inhabitants, estimates the Vressois bourgmestre. Meanwhile, The small town “pays” its distance from cities. For example, This is why she places hope in the future prison project.
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Because of a local hardened housing policy? – Births, death, immigration …: space new
On the side of SpaNicolas Tefnin, the bourgmestre, advances “supputations because I have no factual elements”. “I first births, death, immigration …: space new think that this loss is due to our housing policy which has rightly hardened in recent years. There were too many buildings divided into several dwellings. Nearly 300 dwellings have been analyzed and where the housing units were too numerous, we saw things to find unifamilial houses.
Then there were too many houses bought to make them passenger houses and not places of domiciliation. Of course we like to be a tourist town but we also want that young births, death, immigration …: space Spadois. from neighboring municipalities can buy houses in Spa to live there. When you have requests for passenger houses, you only accept if it is not possible to favor domiciliation. “
Why not count residents of the Fedasil Center?
And this loss of inhabitants had a harmful consequence for SPA: falling below 10,000 citizens. “This means that the municipal college has births, death, immigration …: space new been amputated by an alderman, continues Nicolas Tefnin. In addition. if that were to impose on the municipality. one could not hire an assistant director general; for the legal grade posts to be filled, the salary is not the same if you are below 10,000 inhabitants, so SPA loses in attractiveness; for financial organizations, we are not.”
Especially since, according to the Liberal Bourgmestre Spadois, passing the symbolic bar of the 10,000 souls would be possible. “There is a Fedasil center on the municipal births, death, immigration …: space territory and which has nearly 400 residents. Residents who need municipal services, who are educated on the entity … And these 400 people are not counted in our population. This is not normal. It would be necessary to enter our population figure.”
Trooz in search of its lost inhabitants
HAS EsneuxVincent Rigaux. 28. the new alderman births, death, immigration …: space new for housing, town planning and regional planning intends to tackle the problem: “My first wish is the maintenance of the population which unfortunately decreases in Esneux, for several reasons. But that is not why it is necessary to build in the countryside”.
In Enghien, growth is not about to births, death, immigration …: space stop
In contrast, in Picardy Wallonia, the town ofEngineer made a big leap of +24.36 %. According to Marc Vanderstichelen. the bourgmestre, this growth is not about to stop, even if it was very light between 2024 and 2025 (58 additional inhabitants). “Several beautiful. important real estate projects are in preparation and will emerge in the more or less close future,” he says. Are there limits to this growth within a commune proud of green spaces? “In any case, there is a desire on our part to ensure that quality housing exclusively is births, death, immigration …: space new born. We must also take care to safeguard green spaces, we must be attentive to mobility. The parking lot must follow so that the businesses meet there.”
This article is part of a file on the evolution of demography in Wallonia
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