122 residential burglaries in Evere in 2025. That is 28.7% fewer than in 2024 and 41.6% fewer than in 2019: the municipality is emerging from six years of decline. Which leaves the question most Evere residents ask when securing their home: does the municipality put anything on the table? The answer deserves to be given honestly, including where it is incomplete.
What the Evere series says
The federal police publish recorded incidents municipality by municipality. For Evere, the trajectory is clear: 209 residential burglaries in 2019, 161 in 2020, 214 in 2021, 188 in 2022, 217 in 2023, 171 in 2024, 122 in 2025.
Two lessons. First, the low point of 2020 was no achievement: homes were constantly occupied, and residential burglary requires absence. By 2021 incidents had climbed back to 214, and 2023 even exceeded that level with 217. Second, the real turning point is recent and rapid: 217, then 171, then 122 in two years. Compared with 2015 — Evere's peak year, with 323 incidents — the municipality has lost more than a third of its burglary volume, and it is now clearly below its 2000 level (241 incidents).
Then there is the order of magnitude: 122 incidents still means 2.3 burglaries per week. And of the 155 burglaries in buildings recorded in 2025, 79% targeted a home: in Evere, burglars go for homes first, not business premises.
What a Belgian municipal premium funds — and what it never funds
This is the point most commercial websites get wrong, so let us set out the rule before talking about Evere. The municipal security premiums that exist in Belgium fund mechanical protection: security cylinders and locks, additional locking points, burglar-resistant glazing, reinforcement of doors and window frames, door limiters. In the vast majority of regulations, alarm systems and surveillance cameras are explicitly excluded from funding. A municipal premium does not reimburse an alarm, and nobody should build their budget betting on the opposite.
The logic is far from absurd: the municipality subsidises what delays an intrusion, because the time spent on an access point is the main reason burglars give up. The alarm, for its part, signals. The rational order of spending follows that of the premium: reinforce the access points first, then detect.
The Evere case: what we state, and what we refuse to write
We only publish what we can verify. On the existence and conditions of an Evere municipal premium, we have no official source to hand. We will therefore write neither that such a premium exists nor that it does not: both statements would be invented, and you would find out at the counter.
What is useful is knowing what to ask. Regulations change from one budget year to the next, and a premium can be suspended for lack of funds without the web page being updated. Three questions are enough to settle it, put to the municipality's prevention department:
- Is a security premium regulation in force for the current year, and are funds still available?
- What are the contribution percentage and the ceiling, and is the premium open to tenants?
- Must the application be submitted before the work, is an opinion from the burglary prevention adviser required, and are alarms or cameras excluded from eligible expenses — the answer is almost always yes, but get it confirmed in writing.
The starting point is the Evere municipality's prevention and security page. Until you have these answers, cost your detection installation as an expense borne entirely by you: it is the prudent assumption, and most often the correct one.
The burglary prevention adviser of the Brussels North zone, by contrast, is free and certain
Evere falls under the Brussels North police zone (5344), shared with Schaerbeek and Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, which makes a burglary prevention adviser available to residents. The visit is free, the adviser sells nothing, and their report concerns your actual home: the cylinder fitted, the strength of the window frame, the layout of the stairwell.
It is the only support scheme whose existence in Evere we can guarantee, and the most rational one to start with: where a hypothetical premium would cover a fraction of a mechanical expense, the adviser's opinion avoids the most expensive mistake of all, equipping the wrong access point.
A home in Evere: the flat's front door, the intercom, the multiple entrances
Evere is a municipality of dense housing, where blocks of flats dominate. This completely changes the reasoning compared with a detached house.
The weak point is not the living-room window: it is the flat's front door, forced with a crowbar or opened by manipulating the cylinder, in a corridor where nobody sees anything. Upstream, the building filters poorly: an intercom code that gets passed around, a service entrance and bicycle room open at the rear, a shared garage door that stays up while two cars go through. A break-in in a block of flats very often starts in the common parts, not in the flat.
Three practical consequences. A magnetic contact on the front door signals the opening the moment it happens, not once the intruder is inside. A motion detector in the hallway covers the passage every intrusion must use: in a flat, the area to protect is small, which makes indoor detection far more effective than in a house. And photo verification solves the problem specific to blocks of flats: telling a neighbour, a delivery driver and a genuine intrusion apart without going home.
An alarm kit built around a control panel and supplemented by a few detectors covers most of a flat; our guide on which Ajax alarm to choose in Belgium details the configurations. For video, an indoor Wi-Fi camera aimed at the entrance remains legally simple, whereas a camera placed in a shared corridor is a matter for the co-ownership.
Once installed, what Belgian law requires
Two distinct regimes, both federal: neither Evere nor the Brussels Region adds anything to them.
Alarm: declaration within ten days of installation via police-on-web, annual confirmation, outdoor siren limited to three minutes, annual maintenance, and mandatory alarm verification before any police intervention. Legal basis: the Royal Decree of 25 April 2007. The details are in our guide on the declaration of an alarm system in Belgium.
Camera: declaration on declarationcamera.be, regulatory pictogram, register of processing activities, and a ban on filming the public road or other people's property. In a block of flats, this last constraint is decisive: a balcony camera that takes in the street or the neighbour's terrace is illegal, whatever your intention. See our article on the camera law in Belgium.
Frequently asked questions
How many burglaries were there in Evere in 2025?
122 residential burglaries were recorded in Evere in 2025, according to the federal police crime statistics. That is 28.7% fewer than in 2024 (171 incidents) and 41.6% fewer than in 2019 (209 incidents), an average of 2.3 incidents per week.
Is there a municipal premium for an alarm in Evere?
We have no official source allowing us to state that such a premium is in force in Evere, and we will not invent one. What is established is that Belgian municipal premiums fund mechanical protection — locks, cylinders, glazing, window frames — and almost always exclude alarms and cameras. Check with the prevention department before incurring any costs.
Which police zone does Evere belong to?
Evere is part of the Brussels North police zone (5344), together with Schaerbeek and Saint-Josse-ten-Noode. That is where you request the free visit of the burglary prevention adviser, with no commercial interest whatsoever.
Must an alarm in a flat in Evere be declared?
Yes. The obligation to declare via police-on-web within ten days applies to every alarm system, in a flat as in a house, and must be confirmed every year. It derives from the Royal Decree of 25 April 2007 and depends neither on the municipality nor on the type of home.
Can I put a camera in the corridor of my building in Evere?
Not on your own initiative: a corridor is a common part, and installation is a matter for the co-ownership, which is responsible for the declaration and the register. Inside your flat, a camera is possible if it films neither the public road nor a neighbour's property, and if it is declared on declarationcamera.be with the pictogram.
Sources: Police crime statistics, Federal Police DGR/DRI/BIPOL, publication 2025_T04 (closing date 24/04/2026) — Evere municipal factsheet. Municipal prevention: Evere municipality. Premium regulations change from one year to the next and may be suspended: check with the municipality before incurring any costs.