🇱🇺 Ell: the verdict, plainly
What the tables imply but never say — what Ell asks you to accept, and what it gives back.
Ell trades time for money — the rent is among the gentlest in the area, the commute among the longest.
With 1,678 inhabitants, Ell scores 4.6 out of 10 overall, which puts it mid-table of the 127 profiled cities. Its rent of 20.4 €/m² is lower than in 67% of them, and its 52-minute peak commute shorter than in 28%.
Its strengths: safety (6.4) and nature (5.5). Its weak point: culture & going out, at 3.5 — and since the overall score applies a worst-axis penalty, that weakness weighs more than a plain average would suggest.
On the Luxembourg side the daily trip costs nothing: public transport is free across the whole country, and the only price of the journey is time.
What carries it
What holds it back
Where it sits in the area
67 %
cheaper than of the profiled cities
28 %
closer than of the profiled cities
Cities in a comparable position
Similar rent and similar commute — the direct alternatives worth weighing.
Photo: David Edgar · CC BY-SA 3.0🇱🇺 Reisdorf
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- Average rent, 70 m²
- 1,430 € / month
- Commute to Luxembourg City
- 51 minby car (peak)
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- Average rent, 70 m²
- 1,430 € / month
- Commute to Luxembourg City
- 53 minby car (peak)
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The castle perched above a Sûre meander, campsites below and the Michelau halt: a postcard, but hairpin roads.
- Average rent, 70 m²
- 1,430 € / month
- Commute to Luxembourg City
- 49 minby car (peak)45 minby train
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