🇫🇷 Working in Luxembourg from Sierck-les-Bains

What a daily return trip from Sierck-les-Bains actually costs: peak-hour time, the rail alternative, and the rent euros that distance buys back.

Moselle (France), France · 1,765 inh.

Car (rush hour)

59 min

Train

—

Average rent

13.6 €/m²

Commuters from here

560

The trade: hours against euros

433 h

on the road per year

+1,878 €

rent saved per month

52 €

per yearly commuting hour

Based on 220 working days, return trip, and a 70 m² home compared with the same home in Luxembourg City. Fuel, tolls and vehicle wear are excluded, so the real gap is smaller.

The corridor

🇫🇷 A31 / A3 — Metz · Thionville → Luxembourg

+25 to +45 min at peak — the Greater Region's busiest corridor (over 100,000 vehicles/day at the Zoufftgen border).

Line 90: Thionville–Luxembourg in 23 min, Metz in ~50 min. Packed at rush hour, TER/CFL capacity being added gradually.

Other pages on this city

Key figures →Transport and commute →Housing and rents →

Comparable departures

Photo: Original uploader was Aimelaime at fr.wikipedia · Public domain

🇫🇷 Fameck

Moselle (France) · 14,788 inh.

2.4

A large working-class Fensch commune, among the lowest rents on the A31 axis — at the price of the full commute.

Average rent, 70 m²: 930 € / month
Commute to Luxembourg City: 59 minby car (peak)

Photo: Aimelaime at French Wikipedia · Public domain

🇫🇷 Cattenom

Moselle (France) · 2,580 inh.

3.0

A Moselle village known for its power plant, twenty-five minutes from Luxembourg via the N153. French countryside at the softest border-zone price.

Average rent, 70 m²: 990 € / month
Commute to Luxembourg City: 57 minby car (peak)

Photo: Original uploader was Aimelaime at fr.wikipedia · Public domain

🇫🇷 Yutz

Moselle (France) · 17,391 inh.

3.3

Thionville's residential neighbour, popular with cross-border families for its newer housing estates — same traffic jams, Thionville station five minutes away.

Average rent, 70 m²: 1,060 € / month
Commute to Luxembourg City: 56 minby car (peak)