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Best places to live in Luxembourg with every factor weighted equally
The ranking at the top of this page starts with all 12 factors at the same weight. On that footing, these 15 of the 42 places score highest; the number beside each is its match score out of 100. Treat the list as a starting point, not a verdict: raise the factors you care about and the order changes. Select a place to open its full breakdown.
- 189Strongest on international community (100), rail connections (100) and airport access (100). Weakest on housing cost (0). International community: 70.6% of residents had a foreign citizenship at the 2021 census (Luxembourg average 47.2%).
- 288Strongest on international community (100), restaurants and bars (100) and cultural scene (100). Weakest on airport access (41). International community: 56.7% of residents had a foreign citizenship at the 2021 census (Luxembourg average 47.2%).
- 379Strongest on rail connections (100), cultural scene (100) and international schools (100). Weakest on housing cost (33). Rail connections: 818 trains a day (main station Luxembourg). Luxembourg City 3 min.
- 476Strongest on restaurants and bars (100), cultural scene (99) and international schools (96). Weakest on airport access (21). Restaurants and bars: the average resident has 31 restaurants, cafes and bars within 1 km.
- 576Strongest on international community (100), international schools (100) and walkability (99). Weakest on housing cost (0). International community: 61.1% of residents had a foreign citizenship at the 2021 census (Luxembourg average 47.2%).
- 674Strongest on international schools (100), restaurants and bars (96) and cultural scene (85). Weakest on airport access (27). International schools: 10 within 25 km.
- 774Strongest on cultural scene (99), international schools (96) and rail connections (81). Weakest on bike friendliness (37). Cultural scene: the average resident has 10.4 museums, theatres, cinemas and galleries within 3 km.
- 874Strongest on international schools (100), healthcare (92) and restaurants and bars (86). Weakest on airport access (46). International schools: 10 within 25 km.
- 972Strongest on healthcare (100), international schools (100) and rail connections (95). Weakest on public transit (39). Healthcare: 6 general hospital sites in Luxembourg within 15 km.
- 1071Strongest on international schools (100), international community (87) and rail connections (86). Weakest on housing cost (34). International schools: 12 within 25 km.
- 1167Strongest on healthcare (100), international schools (100) and rail connections (96). Weakest on housing cost (0). Healthcare: 6 general hospital sites in Luxembourg within 15 km.
- 1267Strongest on walkability (93), restaurants and bars (85) and housing cost (82). Weakest on healthcare (36). Walkability: the average resident can walk to 2.8 of 4 daily needs.
- 1367Strongest on access to nature (100), international schools (100) and housing cost (99). Weakest on airport access (12). Access to nature: 55.5% of the land within 1 km of homes is park, forest or open nature. Citywide: 70.7%.
- 1465Strongest on healthcare (100), international schools (100) and rail connections (86). Weakest on housing cost (34). Healthcare: 6 general hospital sites in Luxembourg within 15 km.
- 1563Strongest on international schools (96), cultural scene (88) and healthcare (83). Weakest on airport access (12). International schools: 9 within 25 km.
Best places in Luxembourg by priority
Each starting point is a preset in the tool above. It raises the factors named and lowers a few others. The five highest-scoring places under each:
Family raises access to nature and international schools to 5, and healthcare and walkability to 4.
- Esch-sur-Alzette: 90
- Luxembourg City: 90
- Strassen, Luxembourg: 85
- Differdange, Esch: 84
- Schifflange, Esch: 84
Budget first raises housing cost to 5, and bike friendliness, healthcare, rail connections, public transit and walkability to 4.
- Esch-sur-Alzette: 88
- Dudelange, Esch: 77
- Differdange, Esch: 74
- Rumelange, Esch: 73
- Schifflange, Esch: 73
Car-free raises bike friendliness, public transit and walkability to 5, and rail connections to 4.
- Esch-sur-Alzette: 93
- Luxembourg City: 93
- Strassen, Luxembourg: 79
- Differdange, Esch: 76
- Dudelange, Esch: 73
Frequent flyer raises rail connections and airport access to 5, and international community, restaurants and bars and cultural scene to 4.
- Luxembourg City: 100
- Hesperange, Luxembourg: 90
- Esch-sur-Alzette: 86
- Bettembourg, Esch: 77
- Pétange, Esch: 77
Questions about where to live in Luxembourg
What is the best place to live in Luxembourg?
It depends on what you need from a place, which is why the Luxembourg City Finder re-ranks as you set your priorities. With all 12 factors weighted equally, Luxembourg City, Esch-sur-Alzette and Hesperange score highest of the 42 places compared. Change the starting point and the answer changes: Family puts Esch-sur-Alzette and Luxembourg City level at the top, Budget first puts Esch-sur-Alzette first, Car-free puts Esch-sur-Alzette and Luxembourg City level at the top and Frequent flyer puts Luxembourg City first.
What are the best places to live in Luxembourg for families?
The Family starting point raises access to nature and international schools to 5, and healthcare and walkability to 4. With it, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg City, Strassen, Differdange and Schifflange score highest.
Which places in Luxembourg are easiest to live in without a car?
The Car-free starting point raises bike friendliness, public transit and walkability to 5, and rail connections to 4. With it, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg City, Strassen, Differdange and Dudelange score highest.
Where is housing most affordable in Luxembourg?
On the housing cost factor, the highest scores go to Wiltz, Clervaux, Rumelange, Echternach and Grevenmacher. Wiltz: average registered sale price 5,075 € per m², existing apartments, 2024 and 2025 average (56 sales).
Where does the data come from?
The Luxembourg City Finder compares 42 places on 12 factors using official statistics and open data. The figure behind every score is shown beside it, and each source is listed under How the scores work and at the foot of this page. The methodology sets out how every city finder turns figures into scores.
Does the City Finder tell me whether I can move to Luxembourg?
No. It is an informational research tool that compares places using general statistics. It does not assess eligibility for any visa, residence permit or citizenship, and nothing in it is legal, immigration, tax or financial advice. For visa and residence routes, see Move Me To EU.
About the Luxembourg City Finder
The Luxembourg City Finder compares 42 places across Luxembourg on 12 factors: housing cost, bike friendliness, access to nature, international community, healthcare, rail connections, airport access, public transit, restaurants and bars, cultural scene, walkability and international schools. Every factor starts at the same weight. Raise the ones you care about, lower or switch off the ones you don't, and the ranking and map re-sort as you go. You can shortlist places, compare them side by side, and copy a link that reopens your exact setup. Luxembourg City opens up into its neighborhoods.
It is built for Americans weighing a move to Luxembourg, whether through citizenship by descent, a visa or another route, who want to turn a long list of places into a shortlist worth visiting. Luxembourg City, Esch-sur-Alzette and Differdange are on the list, and so are smaller places that rarely make the usual rankings. Scores are built from official statistics and open data, the figure behind each score is shown next to it, and the sources are listed at the foot of this page. The methodology explains how a figure becomes a score.
For visa and residence routes, see Move Me To EU, Karte Global's visa and relocation practice. Considering more than one country? Browse every city finder, or compare places across the whole EU on one scale in the EU City Finder.
How the scores work
Each figure is turned into a 0 to 100 score. Most factors are scored half by comparison and half on a fixed scale. The comparison half ranks the places against each other: the weakest twentieth score 0 and the strongest twentieth score 100. The fixed half measures each place from zero up to the level of the strongest, so a city is not marked zero merely for coming last on a list of good options. Housing cost and journey times have no natural zero and are scored by comparison only. Public transit is already a percentage of residents and is used as it stands, and cycling is scored on a fixed scale (see the table).
Cities are compared with the other cities on this list. Neighborhoods are compared only with other neighborhoods of the same city, so a neighborhood's score says how it compares within Luxembourg City only. A score is a comparison, not a grade, and the figure behind every score is shown next to it.
Your overall match is not a flat average. Weights are squared, so a factor at 5 counts nearly three times as much as one at 3. The result is stretched so that strong matches separate from middling ones. A place that excels on something you rated 4 or 5 earns a small bonus, shown as "strong fit"; one that does badly on it takes a penalty, shown as "weak fit". Where a place has no figure for a factor, that factor is left out of its match and the others carry the weight.
Badges: Measured a published official statistic or survey result. Derived calculated by us from published data. Editorial written or judged by us: only the short notes, which never affect a score. Planned not in the score yet.
Why there is no safety score. Luxembourg's police publish crime figures for the whole country only, not for communes, cantons or neighborhoods, so safety cannot be compared between places and is not scored.
Reading the train and airport figures. Train counts and journey times come from the published timetables for one ordinary Tuesday, 17 November 2026. Engineering works and timetable changes move these figures, most of all for smaller stations. Luxembourg's railway is one national network, so every passenger train counts. Stations within 2 km of a commune's boundary count, so a commune beside a busy station (Hesperange beside Luxembourg City's main station) shares its trains; stations in Germany, France and Belgium do not count. Airport access counts Luxembourg Airport and the nearest of Frankfurt, Brussels and Amsterdam. Treat these two factors as a snapshot of this season, and check a route you would rely on.
Neighborhood view uses Luxembourg City's 23 quartiers as the city draws them (Pulvermuhl, with very few residents, is left out). A neighborhood's residents, and the share born outside Luxembourg that stands in for the international community, are estimated from the 2021 census grid of 1 km squares, so figures for the small quartiers of the old town and the valleys are approximate. Neighborhood view uses only the factors that can be measured inside a city; housing is shown as advertised rent for reference and not scored.