🇱🇺 🇩🇪 Living in Luxembourg or in Germany?

What the choice of country of residence changes when you work in the Grand Duchy: rents, commutes, quality of life and paperwork, compared across the 106 profiled communes on either side.

	🇱🇺 Luxembourg	🇩🇪 Germany
profiled communes	100	6
median rent, 70 m²	1,650 €	1,030 €
median peak commute	36 min	55 min
median train time	25 min	50 min

Average scores, axis by axis

4.9Quality-of-life score4.0

5.6Quality of life4.2

5.1Transport4.8

5.5Nature4.6

4.4Cost of living7.5

5.7Safety3.9

4.9Culture & going out6.0

5.5Remote work4.0

5.5Schools4.1

5.5Luxembourg commute3.4

Each country's extremes

🇱🇺 Luxembourg

best rated

Photo: Streppel · CC BY-SA 3.0

🇱🇺 Luxembourg-Ville

Luxembourg Canton · 138,215 inh.

6.4

The capital concentrates jobs, culture and the EU institutions. Europe's most international city (70% foreign residents), free public transport, but some of the highest rents on the continent.

Average rent, 70 m²: 2,830 € / month
Commute to Luxembourg City: You're there

cheapest

Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT · CC BY 3.0

🇱🇺 Clervaux

Clervaux Canton · 6,387 inh.

3.2

An Ardennes town nestled around its castle abbey (and the "Family of Man" exhibition). Beautiful and affordable, but far from everything.

Average rent, 70 m²: 1,250 € / month
Commute to Luxembourg City: 67 minby car (peak)52 minby train

closest in

Photo: Streppel · CC BY-SA 3.0

🇱🇺 Luxembourg-Ville

Luxembourg Canton · 138,215 inh.

6.4

The capital concentrates jobs, culture and the EU institutions. Europe's most international city (70% foreign residents), free public transport, but some of the highest rents on the continent.

Average rent, 70 m²: 2,830 € / month
Commute to Luxembourg City: You're there

🇩🇪 Germany17,440 cross-border workers into Luxembourg

best rated

Photo: Wolkenkratzer · CC BY-SA 4.0

🇩🇪 Trèves (Trier)

Rhineland-Palatinate · 111,528 inh.

4.7

Germany's oldest city (Porta Nigra, Unesco), a lively university town. Real urban life at German prices, 45 minutes from Kirchberg via the A64.

Average rent, 70 m²: 1,150 € / month
Commute to Luxembourg City: 52 minby car (peak)50 minby train

cheapest

Photo: Lokilech · CC BY-SA 3.0

🇩🇪 Merzig

Saarland · 30,562 inh.

3.7

A genuine mid-size Saarland town on the Saar, with shops, thermal baths and soft rents. Luxembourg is reached on the A8 via Schengen.

Average rent, 70 m²: 950 € / month
Commute to Luxembourg City: 60 minby car (peak)

closest in

Photo: Meffo · CC BY-SA 3.0

🇩🇪 Perl

Saarland · 10,012 inh.

3.9

Facing Schengen, the Saarland's only wine commune. You cross the Moselle to Luxembourg on foot — the A8 does the rest.

Average rent, 70 m²: 1,050 € / month
Commute to Luxembourg City: 43 minby car (peak)

Settling in

🇱🇺 Luxembourg4 steps →🇩🇪 Germany3 steps →

The averages cover the communes profiled here — the band genuinely within reach of Luxembourg City — not the whole country. Comparing France with Belgium on this site means comparing the Moselle and the Pays-Haut with the province of Luxembourg, not Paris with Brussels.