O 84
Municipal administrations and public social welfare centres (OCMW/CPAS), provincial administrations, police zones, fire and rescue zones and regional and federal services: for suppliers, consultancies and software houses that want to write to local authorities by post or update their customer file.
Our Belgian database holds 779,149 records (as of 5 November 2026); they are not yet assigned to industries. The quote states the size available for this industry.
Export of the whole industry: €379 (excluding VAT). Selections by province, municipality or your own filters are quoted on request.
Official statistics: 565 municipalities in Belgium according to Statbel, number of establishment units by municipality (fourth quarter of 2024, 2025 municipal boundaries, retrieved on 4 November 2026). After the mergers of 1 January 2025: 285 municipalities in the Flemish Region, 261 in the Walloon Region and 19 in the Brussels-Capital Region, spread over 10 provinces and Brussels. Counted from Statbel’s list of establishment units by municipality (2025 boundaries). Public social welfare centres, inter-municipal companies and regional and federal services come on top; the SBS does not cover public administration (section O). This is the size of the market, not the size of our database.
Since the mergers of 1 January 2025, Belgium has 565 municipalities: 285 in the Flemish Region, 261 in the Walloon Region and 19 in the Brussels-Capital Region. They lie in ten provinces; the Brussels-Capital Region belongs to no province.
Each municipality has a public social welfare centre (OCMW in Dutch, CPAS in French). Inter-municipal companies for waste, water or energy are usually classified by their activity rather than as public administration, for example waste collection; you will find them under Energy, water and waste.
| NACE-BEL 2008 | Official title | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 84.11 | General public administration activities | municipal and provincial administrations, regional and federal administrations |
| 84.12 | Regulation of health care, education, cultural services and other social services | including public social welfare centres and social services |
| 84.13 | Regulation of and contribution to more efficient operation of businesses | economic and agricultural services of the authorities |
| 84.24 | Public order and safety activities | police zones |
| 84.25 | Fire service activities | fire and rescue zones |
| 84.30 | Compulsory social security activities | public social security institutions |
Municipalities, welfare centres and other public institutions are listed in the Crossroads Bank for Enterprises just like companies.
These 14 columns are included.
Many contracts do not go through the municipality itself but through a police zone, a fire and rescue zone or an inter-municipal company serving several municipalities. If you sell equipment for emergency services, for example, ask for the police and fire and rescue zones (in the statistics, 84.24 and 84.25) rather than all municipalities.
A public body is a legal entity. An email to an impersonal address such as info@municipality.be falls under the exception for legal entities if the offer is intended for legal entities; the direct address of a civil servant is personal data. For letters and offers, the general address of the administration is usually the right channel.
We sell cemetery management software and are looking for all municipal administrations in the provinces of East and West Flanders, after the 2025 mergers, with a general address and website, for a letter to the civil affairs departments. How many records is that?
Use cases
Write to the municipalities of one province with a demo invitation.
Select police and fire zones for a product catalogue.
Update the customer file after the 2025 mergers.
Invite the municipalities and welfare centres of one region to a seminar.
Questions
The official count on this page follows the 565 municipalities after the mergers of 1 January 2025. Addresses in the source sometimes still carry the name of a former municipality that is now a sub-municipality (deelgemeente). A merger usually does not change the postcode, so a selection by postcode or province still works; anything we cannot assign unambiguously is reported before quoting.
Yes. Selection works by region and by province. The Brussels-Capital Region has 19 municipalities and is a region of its own in the export, not a province.
A municipality is a legal entity. Without consent you may only use an impersonal address (such as info@ or reception@), and every email must offer a way to unsubscribe. More: B2B email marketing and the Royal Decree of 4 April 2003.
565 municipalities in Belgium according to Statbel, number of establishment units by municipality (fourth quarter of 2024, 2025 municipal boundaries, retrieved on 4 November 2026). After the mergers of 1 January 2025: 285 municipalities in the Flemish Region, 261 in the Walloon Region and 19 in the Brussels-Capital Region, spread over 10 provinces and Brussels. Counted from Statbel’s list of establishment units by municipality (2025 boundaries). Public social welfare centres, inter-municipal companies and regional and federal services come on top; the SBS does not cover public administration (section O). This is a figure from official statistics, not the size of our dataset.
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