Saint-Gilles has least amount of green space in Brussels

Saint-Gilles has the least percentage of green space of all of Brussels’ 19 municipalities. Only 16% of the commune is green, meaning park, garden or forest.

It is followed very closely, however, by Saint-Josse at 17%. The next municipality already does much better; Etterbeek has 26% green space.

The figures comes from the office of the region’s environment minister, Céline Fremault (CDH). She had aerial images of the municipalities analysed to assess where more green space was needed.

The municipality with the most green space is Watermael-Boitsfort, at a whopping 88%. While this has something to do with the ample back gardens attached to all those very large houses, it’s also because a significant part of the Sonian Forest is in the commune.

Not surprisingly, Uccle came in second for the most green space, while Auderghem came third. As a whole, the Brussels region is 54.5% green space, which is quite good compared to other capital cities. Vienna, for instance, has 45.5% green space, while Rome has 35%. London has only 33% green space.

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