🇱🇺 Esch-sur-Alzette: the verdict, plainly
What the tables imply but never say — what Esch-sur-Alzette asks you to accept, and what it gives back.
Esch-sur-Alzette charges for its position: you get to work fast, and the rent lets you know.
With 38,323 inhabitants, Esch-sur-Alzette scores 5.1 out of 10 overall, which puts it mid-table of the 127 profiled cities. Its rent of 26.8 €/m² is lower than in 19% of them, and its 33-minute peak commute shorter than in 71%.
Its strengths: culture & going out (8.8) and transport (8.1). Its weak point: safety, at 3.0 — 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
19 %
cheaper than of the profiled cities
71 %
closer than of the profiled cities
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