🇫🇷 Audun-le-Tiche: the verdict, plainly
What the tables imply but never say — what Audun-le-Tiche asks you to accept, and what it gives back.
Audun-le-Tiche trades time for money — the rent is among the gentlest in the area, the commute among the longest.
With 7,356 inhabitants, Audun-le-Tiche scores 2.7 out of 10 overall, which puts it in the lower part of the 127 profiled cities. Its rent of 17.0 €/m² is lower than in 80% of them, and its 48-minute peak commute shorter than in 35%.
Its strengths: cost of living (7.6) and transport (5.6). Its weak point: safety, at 2.2 — and since the overall score applies a worst-axis penalty, that weakness weighs more than a plain average would suggest.
The commune is a genuine feeder of cross-border workers: 3,120 of its residents work in Luxembourg, 42.4 per 100 inhabitants. At that level the local economy, the daily rhythm and even the housing market are set by the Grand Duchy.
What carries it
What holds it back
Where it sits in the area
80 %
cheaper than of the profiled cities
35 %
closer than of the profiled cities
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