Luxembourgers continue to be minority in capital

Some 79.6% of Luxembourg City residents are foreign-born or hold a non-Luxembourgish nationality, according to the 2021 census published by the national statistics office Statec on Monday.

The Luxembourg commune in fact has the country’s lowest proportion of Luxembourgers at 29.4%, while rural communes such as Nommern have the highest share at 80.4%.

Statec’s census analysed the country’s 12 cantons – regional administrative divisions – subdivided into 102 communes. Looking at the Luxembourg canton, numbers shift significantly: Luxembourgers make up 46.4% of the population, while 53.6% are foreign nationals. Among children under 15, only 38.2% hold Luxembourgish nationality.

The data show that Luxembourg’s residents are increasingly mobile. Nationally, 54.9% have lived abroad for at least a year at some point. In 2021, 6.7% of foreign-born residents arrived in the country, with higher shares in the cantons overall (9.9%) than in the Luxembourg commune itself (5.8%).

Languages at home and work

Luxembourgish remains the most spoken language nationally, used by 48.9% of residents, followed by Portuguese (15.4%) and French (14.9%), according to the report…