"cross-border" towns
The 18 communes in Luxembourg and the Greater Region carrying this tag, ranked by overall score.
Photo: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT · CC BY 3.0🇧🇪 Arlon
Luxembourg Province (Belgium) · 31,165 inh.
County town of Belgium's Luxembourg province and the main Belgian rear base: direct trains, the E411/A6, respected schools and a still-reasonable housing market.
- Average rent, 70 m²
- 1,050 € / month
- Commute to Luxembourg City
- 46 minby car (peak)38 minby train
Photo: Carsten Steger · CC BY-SA 4.0🇩🇪 Konz
Rhineland-Palatinate · 18,345 inh.
At the Saar-Moselle confluence, on the Trier–Luxembourg line. The German compromise: soft rents, a station, and vineyards all around.
- Average rent, 70 m²
- 1,050 € / month
- Commute to Luxembourg City
- 51 minby car (peak)40 minby train
Photo: Meffo · CC BY-SA 3.0🇩🇪 Perl
Saarland · 10,012 inh.
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)
Photo: Pecalux at Luxembourgish Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0🇱🇺 Pétange
Esch-sur-Alzette Canton · 21,397 inh.
At the gates of France and Belgium, one of the country's most affordable markets, well served by rail (line 70).
- Average rent, 70 m²
- 1,810 € / month
- Commute to Luxembourg City
- 38 minby car (peak)30 minby train
Photo: Hombre del rio · CC BY-SA 3.0🇧🇪 Messancy
Luxembourg Province (Belgium) · 8,577 inh.
Between Arlon and Aubange, a residential commune growing with cross-border workers. Houses with gardens at Belgian prices, Kirchberg 35 minutes away.
- Average rent, 70 m²
- 1,000 € / month
- Commute to Luxembourg City
- 47 minby car (peak)
🇧🇪 Attert
Luxembourg Province (Belgium) · 5,645 inh.
A rural valley hugging the border between Arlon and Redange. Houses with land at Belgian prices, Kirchberg forty minutes away.
- Average rent, 70 m²
- 1,000 € / month
- Commute to Luxembourg City
- 53 minby car (peak)
Photo: bubudu57 · CC BY 3.0🇫🇷 Hettange-Grande
Moselle (France) · 7,772 inh.
The last French station before the border: 17 minutes by train to Luxembourg. Moselle's most efficient cross-border spot by rail.
- Average rent, 70 m²
- 1,210 € / month
- Commute to Luxembourg City
- 46 minby car (peak)17 minby train
Photo: Original uploader was Aimelaime at fr.wikipedia · Public domain🇫🇷 Yutz
Moselle (France) · 17,391 inh.
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)
Photo: Bubudu57 · CC BY-SA 3.0🇫🇷 Thionville
Moselle (France) · 42,658 inh.
The French capital of cross-border work: a 23-minute direct train to Luxembourg, rents a third of the capital's. The flip side: the rush-hour A31 is notorious across the Greater Region.
- Average rent, 70 m²
- 1,130 € / month
- Commute to Luxembourg City
- 53 minby car (peak)23 minby train
Photo: Hombre del rio · CC BY-SA 3.0🇧🇪 Aubange
Luxembourg Province (Belgium) · 17,567 inh.
The Belgian three-borders commune (Athus), fifteen minutes from Pétange and Rodange. Belgian rents, Luxembourg salaries: the classic equation.
- Average rent, 70 m²
- 1,000 € / month
- Commute to Luxembourg City
- 49 minby car (peak)40 minby train
Photo: Aimelaime at French Wikipedia · Public domain🇫🇷 Cattenom
Moselle (France) · 2,580 inh.
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: Aimelaime at French Wikipedia · Public domain🇫🇷 Audun-le-Tiche
Moselle (France) · 7,356 inh.
Right against Esch-Belval, with its own station on the CFL network. French prices a ten-minute walk from the Luxembourg campus.
- Average rent, 70 m²
- 1,190 € / month
- Commute to Luxembourg City
- 48 minby car (peak)35 minby train
Photo: Initsogan · CC BY-SA 3.0🇫🇷 Longwy
Meurthe-et-Moselle (France) · 15,679 inh.
A Vauban fortress town (Unesco) turned cross-border rear base of the Pays-Haut. Very accessible housing; the commute runs through Rodange or the A30.
- Average rent, 70 m²
- 990 € / month
- Commute to Luxembourg City
- 54 minby car (peak)42 minby train
Photo: Havang(nl) · CC0🇫🇷 Mont-Saint-Martin
Meurthe-et-Moselle (France) · 9,361 inh.
At the three-borders meeting point, adjoining Longwy and Rodange. Among the lowest rents of the entire border zone.
- Average rent, 70 m²
- 970 € / month
- Commute to Luxembourg City
- 48 minby car (peak)45 minby train
Photo: Aimelaime at French Wikipedia · Public domain🇫🇷 Villerupt
Meurthe-et-Moselle (France) · 10,102 inh.
A working-class town of Italian heritage, famous for its Italian film festival. Fifteen minutes from Belval and Esch by road.
- Average rent, 70 m²
- 990 € / month
- Commute to Luxembourg City
- 51 minby car (peak)
Photo: Aimelaime at French Wikipedia · Public domain🇫🇷 Hayange
Moselle (France) · 15,806 inh.
Heart of the steel-making Fensch valley. Very affordable, mid-reconversion — the commute takes the A30 then the A31, rush hours included.
- Average rent, 70 m²
- 860 € / month
- Commute to Luxembourg City
- 54 minby car (peak)
Photo: Original uploader was Aimelaime at fr.wikipedia · Public domain🇫🇷 Florange
Moselle (France) · 12,035 inh.
Between Thionville and the Fensch valley, an affordable family market five minutes from Thionville station.
- Average rent, 70 m²
- 950 € / month
- Commute to Luxembourg City
- 55 minby car (peak)
Photo: Original uploader was Aimelaime at fr.wikipedia · Public domain🇫🇷 Fameck
Moselle (France) · 14,788 inh.
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)
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