A Growing Polarization of Home-work Travel in Luxembourg

The central conurbation, made up of Luxemburg City and its outskirts, is the country’s main employment centre. It concentrates the majority of jobs and therefore receives the majority of daily traffic. Together with the southern conurbation, almost 70% of jobs are located in the central and southern parts of the country. The main commuter flows are therefore to these two centres. In terms of structure, following a centre-periphery logic and due to the cost of distance, the centres attract more residents living in nearby municipalities. The catchment areas of the centres overlap, with each centre having its own catchment area. Since the last census, the central conurbation has been attracting more and more employed residents. The spatial distribution of employed residents and home-work flows reveals structures specific to each centre: highly centralised for the Agglomération-centre and the northern centres, polycentric for the Agglomération-sud. Over the intercensal period, the shape of these areas remained stable, but the number and intensity of flows increased.