Luxembourg
Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
- Capital
- Luxembourg
- Region
- Western Europe
- Population, 2025
- 687,000
- Currency
- EUR
- Area
- 2,586 km²
Across Luxembourg's 12 priced cities, one person needs about $3,133 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $5,297.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
69out of 100
- Purchasing power25%76
- Safety20%66
- Health care15%71
- Climate10%83
- Air quality10%91
- Connectivity10%78
- Cost10%8
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
- Livability rank among countries
- #16
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Cost of living index
86.6
New York = 100, rent excluded
Rent index
50.3
New York = 100
Purchasing power
169.2
New York = 100
One person
$3,133
A month, rent included
Net salary
$5,297
Average, a month after tax
Rent, one bedroom in the centre
$2,279
A month
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
GDP per person
$147,252
2025
Growth
+0.6%
2025
Unemployment
6.3%
2025
Inflation
2.3%
2025
Life expectancy
83.2 years
2024
Internet users
99%
2025
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 42%
- SourcePwC
- Lowest income tax rate
- 8%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 23.9%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 17%
- SourcePwC
- Social security, employee
- 13.0%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Social security, employer
- 15.1%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Inheritance tax
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeo’s crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- 66.4
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 33.6
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2022
- 1.5
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #33 worldwide
- 212
- Mobile downloadMbps, median
- —
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +18%
Cities in Luxembourg
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Luxembourg | 67 | 86.6 | $2,279 | $5,297 | 169.2 | 76.7K | High confidence, 112 contributors |
| 2Wiltz | 62 | 78.3 | — | $7,248 | 282.9 | — | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 3Strassen | 61 | 88.4 | — | $6,773 | 251.4 | 6K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 4Mersch | 60 | 80.1 | $1,607 | $5,166 | 210.1 | — | Medium confidence, 8 contributors |
| 5Diekirch | 59 | 83.2 | $1,665 | $4,936 | 193.7 | 7.3K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 6Dudelange | 58 | — | — | $3,673 | — | 18K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 7Belvaux | 58 | — | — | $6,027 | — | 8.3K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 8Rodange | 58 | — | $1,855 | $2,319 | — | 7.8K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 9Petange | 58 | — | — | $9,160 | — | 7.2K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 10Bertrange | 58 | — | — | — | — | 5.6K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 11Differdange | 58 | — | $1,535 | — | — | 5.3K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 12Mondorf-les-bains | 58 | — | $1,623 | — | — | — | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 13Kayl | 58 | — | — | $9,856 | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 14Mondercange | 58 | — | — | $6,595 | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 15Lorentzweiler | 58 | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence |
| 16Rumelange | 58 | — | — | $7,653 | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 17Bereldange | 58 | — | $1,550 | $8,839 | — | — | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 18Echternach | 58 | — | — | $4,821 | — | — | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 19Bascharage | 58 | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 20Ettelbruck | 58 | 84.7 | — | $4,477 | 169.2 | 6.4K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 21Esch-sur-Alzette | 56 | 81.7 | $1,875 | $3,841 | 141.5 | 36.6K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 22Schifflange | 51 | 69.5 | — | — | — | 8.2K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 23Bettembourg | 51 | 82.3 | — | — | — | 7.4K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 24Grevenmacher | 51 | 83.0 | $1,740 | — | — | 5.1K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 25Mamer | 50 | 71.1 | $2,066 | — | — | 5K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 26Bissen | 47 | 83.9 | $3,444 | $2,525 | 61.4 | — | Low confidence, 3 contributors |