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πŸ‡±πŸ‡Ί Who lives in Mertzig

Age, nationalities, communities: what the national register says about the 2,420 residents of Mertzig, as of 1 July 2026.

The residents in four figures

Residents

2,420

Median age

41.1 years

Country : 40.3 years

Hold Luxembourgish nationality

74.2 %

Country : 53.7 %

Nationalities present

50

90 of 100 for international mix

The age pyramid

MenWomen
100+
95-99
90-94
85-89
80-84
75-79
70-74
65-69
60-64
55-59
50-54
45-49
40-44
35-39
30-34
25-29
20-24
15-19
10-14
5-9
0-4

Each bar is a five-year band, men on the left and women on the right, scaled to the commune's largest band. A dip between 20 and 35 marks a commune young adults leave for want of housing they can afford; a bulge at 40-55 with plenty of children, a commune of settled families.

Three ages of life

Under 20

23.7 %

20 to 64

61.1 %

65 and over

15.2 %

What the residents do

Unemployment rate

3.9 %

Country : 6.2 %

24 of 100, lowest rate first

Active population

1,103

In work

1,060

Work for themselves

5.7 %

Since 2020

4.92020
4.32021
4.12022
3.42023
3.92024
3.92025

Working residents and jobseekers living in the commune, whatever country they work in. The rate is the second over the active population β€” it says nothing about the cross-border workers who commute in.

STATEC attaches a warning to this table, repeated here: IGSS and ADEM place a resident in a commune by postal code, and some postal codes straddle two communes. The series is for reading a commune against the country and against its own past; it is not for separating two neighbouring villages by a decimal. STATEC (LUSTAT X026) β€” employment and unemployment by commune, 2025

The largest communities

Portugal20.5 per 100 residents Β· 497 citizens
France2.9 per 100 residents Β· 70 citizens
Belgium2.4 per 100 residents Β· 57 citizens
Italy2.1 per 100 residents Β· 50 citizens
Germany1.7 per 100 residents Β· 41 citizens
Netherlands1.0 per 100 residents Β· 24 citizens

This says where a community is present, not whether it is organised: a commune can be 30% Portuguese with no association, and 4% British with a rugby club. Read it as a clue to the language you will hear in the supermarket.

The country's extremes

How to read these shares

The register counts every nationality held: Luxembourg naturalises without requiring the first passport to be surrendered, so a sizeable share of residents appears twice. Country totals run about 18% above the population nationally. Every share shown here is therefore taken against the population, which makes the Luxembourgish share exact and lets the communities add up to more than 100 per 100 residents.

The 100 Luxembourgish communes only. The register is national, and the French, Belgian and German equivalents are neither harmonised with each other nor published per commune for the border strip β€” so the 27 neighbouring cities in the perimeter get no page here rather than an estimate.

Source: National register β€” age pyramid and citizens by nationality and commune (2026-07-01)