Municipality · NIS 71071 · closed 24/04/2026
Tessenderlo-Ham
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Tessenderlo-Ham merged on 1 January 2025. BIPOL does not yet provide a multi-year main series for the new entity; the 2025 bulletin may still be an incomplete edition. The site hides this series and keeps documenting the pre-merger municipalities separately. Counts and rates per 1,000 inhabitants are not shown until the source publishes a complete multi-year table. See the methodology.
Source: Limburg_Tessenderlo-Ham_fr.pdf · 58 pages
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Local executive
Mayor: Marc Heselmans
List: cd&v Tessenderlo-Ham · Party / affiliation: not provided
Since 02/01/2025 · In office on 08/10/2026 · source (official source)
Majority (lists on the executive): cd&v Tessenderlo-Ham / Vooruit / N-VA
Derived from the lists of the executive members · In office on 08/10/2026 · source (official source)
Next elections: municipal and provincial elections: 13/10/2030 · regional, federal and European elections: 2029.
Profile
Official sources (Statbel), edition shown on each line.
- Population on 1 January 2026
- 30 827
Statbel, 1/1/2026
- Foreign nationals (non-Belgian nationality)
- 5,9 %1 815 out of 30 827
2025 : 5,8 % · 2026 : 5,9 %The vertical axis does not start at 0. Annual series
1 January Foreign nationals Share 2025 1 783 5,8 % 2026 1 815 5,9 % Statbel, 1/1/2026, series 2025-2026
- Non-Belgians by group of nationality of origin
- Neighbouring countries*1,7 %(528)
- EU27 excluding neighbouring countries1,7 %(536)
- Non-EU272,4 %(751)
* Germany, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands, United Kingdom (Statbel grouping).
Statbel, 1/1/2026, share of the population
- Origin (indicator separate from nationality)
- Belgians of Belgian origin80,6 %(24 852)
- Belgians of foreign origin13,5 %(4 160)
- Non-Belgians5,9 %(1 815)
Statbel, 1/1/2026
- Age
- 0-17 years17,6 %(5 416)
- 18-64 years60,0 %(18 504)
- 65 and over22,4 %(6 907)
Statbel, 1/1/2026
- Area and density
84,4 km² · 363 inhab./km²
Statbel, 1/1/2025
- Median income per tax return
Not published for this municipality code (municipality merged in 2025: 2023 income published for the former municipalities).
Statbel, income 2023
Definitions
- « Foreign national » = person with a non-Belgian nationality in the national register, on 1 January. Naturalised Belgians or Belgians of foreign origin are counted as Belgians.
- Origin (Statbel): based on current nationality, the person's first registered nationality and that of their parents. Official categories: Belgian of Belgian origin, Belgian of foreign origin, non-Belgian.
- Group of nationality of origin: Statbel grouping into neighbouring countries, EU27 excluding neighbouring countries, and non-EU27; this is not a strict EU / non-EU split (the United Kingdom is classed as a neighbouring country).
- Merged or renumbered municipalities: no reconstructed series before the date of the new code (same rule as for the reference population).
- These figures are not cross-referenced with any crime statistics.
Elections
- Valid votes: 14,389
- Registered: 23,768 · turnout 60.8 %
- Blank and void: 67 (0.5 % of ballots)
| List | Votes | % | Seats |
|---|---|---|---|
| cd&v Tessenderlo-Ham | 4,199 | 29.2 % | 11 |
| Vooruit | 3,161 | 22.0 % | 8 |
| VLAAMS BELANG | 2,186 | 15.2 % | 5 |
| N-VA | 1,861 | 12.9 % | 4 |
| Open Vld | 1,630 | 11.3 % | 3 |
| GROEN | 688 | 4.8 % | 0 |
| LOOI.nu - Impact | 446 | 3.1 % | 0 |
| DE Volkspartij | 218 | 1.5 % | 0 |
Source: Vlaanderen kiest (Flemish Home Affairs agency), official results (local elections of 13/10/2024). Local lists, under the filed name, not linked to any party. National view