The best areas and districts to live in Graz, by the LAGE score

Of the 210 Graz neighbourhoods compared, the Bergstraße area in Eggenberg has the highest LAGE score, our measure from 0 to 100 for a place to live, with a median of 76 across 216 addresses against 59 for the city. All ten neighbourhoods at the top lie above the city median of 53 for green space, and eight of them reach 80 or more. Mariatrost has the highest district median, 66.

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 Graz with the same rules, from open data. For each neighbourhood and district, the tables give the median, the score of the address in the middle once all of them are lined up. The neighbourhoods Lagecheck compares are statistical areas of Statistik Austria, each named after a street or place inside it, and the comparison keeps those with at least 60 addresses. The map of Graz shows every neighbourhood, and the profile of Graz gives noise, air, heat and flood figures for the whole city.

45,186 addresses. 210 neighbourhoods. 17 districts. A city median of 59.

Where in Graz is the best place to live?

The Bergstraße area in Eggenberg comes first with a median of 76 across 216 addresses, against 59 for the whole city. It has 95 for quiet, 97 for green space and 58 for air, the strongest air value among the first five. The Hammer-Purgstall-Gasse area in Gries follows with 74 across 84 addresses, with 95 for quiet, 94 for green space and 96 for errands on foot. Two areas share third place with 73, the Am Dominikanergrund area in Mariatrost, with 134 addresses, and the Schloßberg area in the Innere Stadt, with 84. The Hans-Resel-Gasse area in Lend has 72. The Föllinger Straße area and the Mariatroster Straße / Roseggerweg area, both in Mariatrost, share 71, and the second one is the largest of the ten, with 677 addresses. The Mariatroster Straße / Kirchbergstraße area in Mariatrost and the Roßmanngasse area in Ries follow with 70, and the Bozener Straße area in Gries closes the ten highest with 69.

What do the top neighbourhoods have in common?

Green space sets them apart. All ten lie above the city median of 53 for green space, and eight of them reach 80 or more. All ten have 67 or more for quiet, and four of them have 95. The errands part varies more. The Schloßberg area and the Hans-Resel-Gasse area have 100 for errands, while the Föllinger Straße area has 60, and it has 92 for green space and 67 for air, the strongest air value of the ten. Four of the ten lie in Mariatrost. A neighbourhood at the top combines green space with quiet streets.

The Schloßberg area and the Hans-Resel-Gasse area share a different shape. Both have 67 for quiet and 36 for air, the lowest of the ten. Both also have 100 for errands and 90 for transit, and the Schloßberg area adds 96 for green space. They reach the top through short walks.

Which neighbourhoods of Graz score lowest?

The Raachgasse area in Gösting has the lowest median, 29 across 173 addresses. It has 87 for quiet, 96 for green space and 53 for air. Its low score comes from its parts for transit and errands on foot, 5 and 12. Its quiet score of 87 matches the city median.

The Jakominiplatz area in the Innere Stadt follows with 34 across 120 addresses and shows the opposite shape. It has 100 for transit and 100 for errands, and 17 for quiet and 40 for green space. The Jakoministraße area, with 36, and the Schönaugürtel / Obere Bahnstraße area, with 37, both lie in Jakomini. Five of the ten lowest lie in Jakomini and three in the Innere Stadt. Nine of the ten have 100 for transit, and seven of them have 17 for quiet. In these central areas, quiet is the weak part.

Which district of Graz has the highest LAGE score?

Mariatrost leads alone with a median of 66 across 2,597 addresses, and the Innere Stadt has the lowest, 47 across 842 addresses. Gösting shares second place among the districts with 62, and the Raachgasse area in Gösting has the lowest median of the 210 neighbourhoods. In the Innere Stadt, the district with the lowest median, the Schloßberg area reaches 73 and ranks among the ten highest. A district median hides the spread between its neighbourhoods.

Why do quiet, green areas like the Raachgasse area score low?

The Raachgasse area scores low because LAGE uses a geometric mean, so its 5 for transit and 12 for errands weigh more than its 96 for green space. A green area far from the next stop ends up below a neighbourhood where every part is good, and the same holds for one with every shop nearby on a loud street. The method also lowers LAGE for natural hazards such as floods, and that factor stays outside the tables. The story on the quietest neighbourhoods of Graz shows road noise area by area, and the story on public transport in Graz compares the districts by their stops.

Can I weight the parts myself?

The profile page lets you set your own priorities for the five parts and the errands that count. The standard LAGE weights the five parts equally. If the tram stop matters more to you than the park, give transit more weight, and the map of Graz 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 7 October 2026.

The neighbourhood figures cover the 210 neighbourhoods with at least 60 addresses, and the district figures cover every address of the 17 districts. Rents, prices and safety stay outside LAGE. The score describes the location.