Brussels residential proxies

What does a Brussels IP show that a Belgium IP does not?

A Brussels IP helps check STIB-MIVB metro, tram and bus information, Immoweb listings and Delhaize delivery or pickup options in French and Dutch. It also supports reviewing bilingual local search results and ads for postcodes 1000, 1020, 1120 and 1130.

The City of Brussels counted 229,546 salaried jobs located in the municipality in 2024. It had 21,606 VAT-registered enterprises on 31 December 2024.

• La Grand-Place in Brussels became a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1998.
• The City of Brussels is the largest municipality of the Brussels-Capital Region by area, about 20% of the regional territory.
• Besides the 1000 centre, the city includes Laeken (1020), Neder-Over-Heembeek (1120) and Haren (1130).

How do I target Brussels in the proxy username?

Append -country-be-city-brussels to the username from your dashboard; write brussels, not Bruxelles / Brussel. Country and city values are always lower case.

For a multi-step check, keep one Brussels IP with USERNAME-country-be-city-brussels-session-brusse1-ttl-10. Sticky sessions last up to 30 minutes (the IP can change earlier).

An IP lookup may show a nearby place such as Schaerbeek, Anderlecht, Vilvoorde and Leuven instead of Brussels: databases place suburban address blocks differently. Check the exit before you rely on it.

The City of Brussels is one of 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, which had 1,250,862 residents on 1 January 2025.

Which networks serve homes in Brussels?

Nationally, home broadband in Belgium is led by Proximus, Telenet, Orange Belgium (incl. VOO) and Digi; the sector is supervised by Belgian Institute for Postal Services and Telecommunications (BIPT). Proximus: Former incumbent; per BIPT, Proximus, Telenet and Orange (with secondary brands) held 98% of 5.25 million fixed broadband lines in 2025.

Telenet is a local network in Brussels: cable operator based in Mechelen whose network covers Flanders and part of the Brussels region; coverage of a given Brussels address varies. VOO is a local network in Brussels: main cable operator in Wallonia that also serves part of the Brussels-Capital Region; controlled by Orange Belgium since 5 June 2023.

This describes the local market, not the networks our pool uses at a given moment. Read the ASN of your exit with an IP lookup, or keep the exit on one network with -asn-<number> (ASN guide).

Which rules apply to checks run from Brussels?

Belgium's supervisory authority is the Data Protection Authority (APD-GBA). The framework is GDPR + Law of 30 July 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data. The standard VAT rate is 21%; retail sites shown to Brussels visitors usually quote prices with it included. For official local data, start with the city's own Ville de Bruxelles Open Data / Stad Brussel Open Data.

Collect only what you need, respect each site's terms and robots.txt, and see our GDPR checklist. This is not legal advice.