The best districts of Vienna to live in, by the LAGE score

Of Vienna's 23 districts, Hietzing has the highest LAGE, our score from 0 to 100 for a place to live, with a median of 70. Floridsdorf follows with 69 and Donaustadt with 68, and Neubau comes last with 50. The five districts with the highest scores lie at the edge of the city and score 51 to 65 for air. Districts 1 to 9 have medians of 100 for public transport and errands on foot.

LAGE, a score from 0 to 100, sums up an address as a place to live: quiet, clean air, public transport, green space and errands on foot. Natural hazards such as floods lower it. We work it out for each address in Vienna with the same rules, from open data. For each district, the table gives the median, the score of the address in the middle once all of them are lined up.

150,513 addresses. 23 districts. 737 neighbourhoods with at least 60 addresses.

Which district of Vienna has the highest LAGE score?

Hietzing comes first with a median of 70. Floridsdorf follows with 69, Donaustadt with 68, and Döbling and Penzing with 67 each. All five lie at the edge of the city, and their air scores range from 51 to 65. Liesing follows with 66, then Favoriten and Währing with 65 each, the median of the whole city.

Which parts of Vienna have the highest LAGE score?
District	LAGE, median	Quiet	Air	Transit	Green	Errands
Hietzing	70	87	59	78	49	94
Floridsdorf	69	87	51	90	61	92
Donaustadt	68	87	58	90	64	85
Döbling	67	87	65	90	53	96
Penzing	67	87	57	90	60	82
Liesing	66	87	52	90	49	92
Favoriten	65	75	35	90	59	97
Währing	65	87	40	90	51	100
Leopoldstadt	64	67	35	100	56	100
Meidling	64	67	31	100	58	100
Innere Stadt	60	67	30	100	41	100
Ottakring	58	79	29	90	45	100
Landstraße	57	67	29	100	46	100
Mariahilf	57	67	24	100	42	100
Josefstadt	56	59	31	100	46	100
Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus	56	67	32	100	42	100
Wieden	56	59	24	100	50	100
Margareten	54	67	29	100	50	100
Alsergrund	53	39	25	100	46	100
Neubau	50	32	20	100	44	100
All of Vienna	65	87	46	90	53	97

© Österreichisches Adressregister; Datenquelle: BEV · Datenquelle: BMLUK (Strategische Lärmkarten 2022, Hochwasserrisikozonen) · © European Environment Agency (EEA) · Datenquelle: ÖROK, ÖV-Güteklassen 2025 · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Data as of 12 October 2026

Why do the inner districts score lower?

Noise and air pull districts 1 to 9 down. Their air scores range from 20 to 35, and Neubau has a median of 32 for quiet and 20 for air, the lowest of all districts. At the same time, each of the districts 1 to 9 has a median of 100 for public transport and 100 for errands on foot, the top of both scales. Meidling, Brigittenau and Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus share both figures. The story on Vienna's quietest districts shows the noise district by district.

LAGE uses a geometric mean, so one weak part weighs more than in a plain average. An address with perfect transport on a loud street ends up below an address where every part is good.

Which neighbourhoods score highest and lowest?

The highest score of the 737 neighbourhoods we compared goes to the Ilse-Arlt-Straße area in Donaustadt, with 84. The Sapphogasse area in Favoriten follows with 83. The Gartenschaugasse area in Favoriten and the Himmelhofgasse area in Hietzing share third place with 81. Favoriten, a district at the city median of 65, holds three of the eight neighbourhoods at 80 or more.

Which parts of Vienna have the highest LAGE score?
Neighbourhood	LAGE, median	Quiet	Air	Transit	Green	Errands
Ilse-Arlt-Straße areaDonaustadt	84	95	63	90	74	97
Sapphogasse areaFavoriten	83	87	52	100	95	97
Gartenschaugasse areaFavoriten	81	87	63	78	94	88
Himmelhofgasse areaHietzing	81	95	67	78	78	91
Graedenerweg areaFloridsdorf	80	95	55	78	92	95
Lieleggweg areaFloridsdorf	80	87	65	90	81	97
Triestinggasse areaFloridsdorf	80	87	65	90	88	78
Wendstattgasse / Bergtaidingweg areaFavoriten	80	87	52	100	67	96
Formanekgasse areaDöbling	79	95	69	90	64	99
Holzknechtstraße areaFavoriten	79	67	63	90	89	88
All of Vienna	65	87	46	90	53	97

More neighbourhoods share the 79 of the last two rows.

At the bottom, the Währinger Gürtel / Lustkandlgasse area in Alsergrund has 32 and the Rosensteingasse / Taubergasse area in Hernals 34. Two of the ten lowest lie on Triester Straße in Liesing and two by Lustkandlgasse in Alsergrund. All ten score 90 or 100 for public transport and between 5 and 39 for quiet.

Which parts of Vienna have the highest LAGE score?
Neighbourhood	LAGE, median	Quiet	Air	Transit	Green	Errands
Währinger Gürtel / Lustkandlgasse areaAlsergrund	32	5	18	100	29	100
Rosensteingasse / Taubergasse areaHernals	34	5	23	100	38	100
Geblergasse / Hernalser Hauptstraße areaHernals	35	17	12	100	27	100
U-Bahn Bogen / Lustkandlgasse areaAlsergrund	37	5	24	100	47	100
Triester Straße / Partlgasse areaLiesing	38	17	48	90	35	82
Semperstraße areaWähring	38	5	18	100	38	100
Ganglbauergasse areaOttakring	38	39	0	100	42	100
Bernardgasse areaNeubau	38	17	0	100	56	100
Triester Straße / Sobotagasse areaLiesing	39	5	48	100	38	82
Theresiengasse / Martinstraße areaWähring	40	32	12	100	27	100
All of Vienna	65	87	46	90	53	97

Several more neighbourhoods share the tenth place with 40.

Can I weigh the parts myself?

The profile page lets you set your own priorities for the five parts. The standard LAGE weighs them equally. If the tram matters more to you than the park, give it more weight, and the map of Vienna colours every neighbourhood by your own LAGE. The method page gives the rule for each part.

How we counted

The address register of the BEV gives every address, and each address counts once, however many flats it has. Road noise comes from the strategic noise maps 2022 of the federal ministry BMLUK, and flood areas come from the same ministry. The air comes from the model of the European Environment Agency, public transport from the ÖV-Güteklassen 2025 of the ÖROK, and parks, shops, doctors and schools from OpenStreetMap. Noise and air are model values, and distances are as the crow flies. The data is as of 12 October 2026.

The neighbourhood lists keep the neighbourhoods with at least 60 addresses. Rents, prices and safety stay out of LAGE. The score describes the location.