Cost of Living in Brussels

Summary of cost of living in Brussels, Belgium:

Restaurants
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Meal, Inexpensive Restaurant 21.07 $ 15.81-36.88
Meal for 2 People, Mid-range Restaurant, Three-course 86.93 $ 63.22-126.45
McMeal at McDonalds (or Equivalent Combo Meal) 12.64 $ 11.59-15.81
Domestic Beer (1 pint draught) 5.27 $ 3.69-7.38
Imported Beer (12 oz small bottle) 5.27 $ 4.21-7.38
Cappuccino (regular) 3.96 $ 3.16-5.27
Coke/Pepsi (12 oz small bottle) 2.89 $ 2.11-4.21
Water (12 oz small bottle) 2.63 $ 2.11-4.21
Markets
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Milk (regular), (1 gallon) 5.86 $ 3.39-8.58
Loaf of Fresh White Bread (1 lb) 2.24 $ 1.37-3.82
Rice (white), (1 lb) 1.29 $ 0.45-2.11
Eggs (regular) (12) 4.21 $ 2.41-5.90
Local Cheese (1 lb) 6.90 $ 3.49-11.95
Chicken Fillets (1 lb) 5.51 $ 3.82-7.17
Beef Round (1 lb) (or Equivalent Back Leg Red Meat) 8.23 $ 4.56-11.47
Apples (1 lb) 1.13 $ 0.57-1.43
Banana (1 lb) 0.97 $ 0.69-1.43
Oranges (1 lb) 1.13 $ 0.72-1.91
Tomato (1 lb) 1.34 $ 0.71-2.01
Potato (1 lb) 0.97 $ 0.48-1.43
Onion (1 lb) 0.92 $ 0.53-1.43
Lettuce (1 head) 1.61 $ 1.05-2.11
Water (1.5 liter bottle) 1.23 $ 0.42-2.11
Bottle of Wine (Mid-Range) 8.43 $ 6.32-21.07
Domestic Beer (0.5 liter bottle) 2.21 $ 1.05-4.21
Imported Beer (12 oz small bottle) 2.87 $ 2.11-5.27
Cigarettes 20 Pack (Marlboro) 10.01 $ 8.43-12.64
Transportation
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One-way Ticket (Local Transport) 2.58 $ 2.11-3.00
Monthly Pass (Regular Price) 52.69 $ 51.63-54.79
Taxi Start (Normal Tariff) 5.27 $ 4.21-8.43
Taxi 1 mile (Normal Tariff) 3.90 $ 3.39-7.29
Taxi 1hour Waiting (Normal Tariff) 34.77 $ 31.61-57.96
Gasoline (1 gallon) 6.75 $ 6.38-7.90
Volkswagen Golf 1.4 90 KW Trendline (Or Equivalent New Car) 31,611.89 $ 30,031.30-34,130.30
Toyota Corolla Sedan 1.6l 97kW Comfort (Or Equivalent New Car) 32,752.55 $ 26,343.24-34,773.08
Utilities (Monthly)
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Basic (Electricity, Heating, Cooling, Water, Garbage) for 915 sq ft Apartment 232.94 $ 130.62-368.81
Mobile Phone Monthly Plan with Calls and 10GB+ Data 22.67 $ 14.75-42.15
Internet (60 Mbps or More, Unlimited Data, Cable/ADSL) 52.23 $ 36.88-70.60
Sports And Leisure
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Fitness Club, Monthly Fee for 1 Adult 37.67 $ 21.07-73.76
Tennis Court Rent (1 Hour on Weekend) 26.69 $ 21.07-31.61
Cinema, International Release, 1 Seat 13.70 $ 11.59-20.02
Childcare
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Preschool (or Kindergarten), Full Day, Private, Monthly for 1 Child 994.02 $ 869.33-1,106.42
International Primary School, Yearly for 1 Child 24,920.71 $ 18,967.13-31,611.89
Clothing And Shoes
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1 Pair of Jeans (Levis 501 Or Similar) 94.84 $ 63.22-126.45
1 Summer Dress in a Chain Store (Zara, H&M, ...) 50.46 $ 36.88-84.30
1 Pair of Nike Running Shoes (Mid-Range) 113.07 $ 73.76-136.98
1 Pair of Men Leather Business Shoes 140.94 $ 89.57-158.06
Rent Per Month
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Apartment (1 bedroom) in City Centre 1,172.37 $ 948.36-1,475.22
Apartment (1 bedroom) Outside of Centre 996.65 $ 895.67-1,159.10
Apartment (3 bedrooms) in City Centre 2,146.40 $ 1,791.34-2,634.32
Apartment (3 bedrooms) Outside of Centre 1,658.67 $ 1,369.85-2,107.46
Buy Apartment Price
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Price per Square Feet to Buy Apartment in City Centre 432.36 $ 391.58-538.42
Price per Square Feet to Buy Apartment Outside of Centre 388.08 $ 293.68-587.36
Salaries And Financing
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Average Monthly Net Salary (After Tax) 2,821.57 $
Mortgage Interest Rate in Percentages (%), Yearly, for 20 Years Fixed-Rate 3.67 3.00-4.00

Prices in Brussels

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Last update: December 2024
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6 Comments so far
Anonymous on Apr 15, 2024:
why are you talking about joe biden on a page for brussels?? lol
Anonymous on Sep 04, 2021:
I don't understand why there's an insane person here talk about unrelated things under the Brussels forum? If want to make a change for your country, please write a letter to UN, but not complain about why other countries don't intervene in your country's political issue, if you'd like another country to intervene in your country's issue, see what the US gov did in the past years, Iraq, Afghan, well, perhaps you can ask US gov to help your country. I don't understand what you expect, a mercy? you don't think your president has the ability to govern a country but would rather take orders from another country?
Gemechis Tesfaye on Feb 03, 2021:
its a good and wonderful place to live in Belgium
Anonymous on Jan 23, 2021:
Who cares what China or Russia does? Who cares what Modi does? Who cares what Myanmar does? Nobody really cares what anyone does quite frankly.I'm looking forward to a world with much fewer people. Less traffic on the highways much fewer people while shopping much fewer opinions but many deaths people silenced now that's efficiency.There'll never be a vaccine for covid19 because it's uncontrollable now that's great factual news.The sounds of silence are more valuable than gold.
Anonymous on Jan 03, 2021:
China and Russia still deliberately support the genocide criminal Myanmar again during the recent UN assembly.

China communist party is the most inhumane organizations, not considering the suffering of the genocide victims of Rohingya though China itself suffered the most terrible atrocities as great as genocide under Japan empire during WW2.

Though India's relationship with Myanmar is much better than China's relationship with Myanmar, India abstained from voting at the Myanmar case against genocide crime in UN assembly recently, at least India didn't support the genocide criminal Myanmar.
India have a sense of humane dignity unlike inhumane China which deliberately supporting Myanmar for its genocide crime in the name of not interfering in its internal affairs.

Whatever China's supporting is non of the business of the world community as long as China is not the head of UN but the problem is that China is the head of UN so the world community is stuck with the untrustworthy China and no whatsoever justice and humane dignity would be rendered by the very inhumane China and Russia.

So without justice and humane dignity being place at the top agenda of China and Russia in its handling of UN matters, both should be kicked out of UN immediately by the world community or else UN is no longer relevant to the world community.
Anonymous on Oct 16, 2020:
Once blacklisted in US as a terrorist, Modi not only was a local terrorist once but also now proves to be a greater international terrorist by supplying a submarine to the genocide and war crime committing Myanmar puppet government and military controller.

It's time for the world to stop genocide and war crime by imposing economic sanction upon the genocide/war criminal such as Myanmar puppet government and military controller and the genocide/war supporter such as India, China, etc.