The best areas to live in Linz, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

The Eichendorffstraße area and the Polgarweg area share the highest median LAGE in Linz, 78 against 64 for the whole city. LAGE is our score from 0 to 100 for a place to live. Both score 95 for quiet and 100 for public transport. Air is the lowest part in each of the first ten. The Lunzerstraße area has the lowest median, 20, across 572 addresses.

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 every address in Linz with the same rules, from open data. For each place, 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 inside it, and we rank the 144 with at least 60 addresses. The map of Linz shows every neighbourhood.

25,378 addresses. 144 neighbourhoods compared. A city median of 64.

Which neighbourhoods of Linz are the best places to live?

The Eichendorffstraße area and the Polgarweg area share the highest LAGE median in Linz, 78, against 64 for the whole city. The Eichendorffstraße area has 89 addresses, and the Polgarweg area has 186. Two areas share 77, the Brunnenfeldstraße area with 67 addresses and the Weinheberstraße area with 61. The Niedermayrweg area follows with 76. The Albert-Schöpf-Straße area and the Planckstraße area share 75, and three areas share 74, the Hauserstraße area, the Hölderlinstraße area and Kleinwört. The top of the table sits close together.

The table shows the first ten and the last ten of the 144 neighbourhoods, with the median of each part. The profile of Linz gives every other measure for the whole city.

What do the neighbourhoods with the highest LAGE score in Linz have in common?

The two leaders pair quiet streets with a stop close by. The Eichendorffstraße area and the Polgarweg area both have 95 for quiet and 100 for public transport, against city medians of 87 and 90. Green space reaches 84 and 82, while the city median is 60. For errands on foot the Eichendorffstraße area has 95 and the Polgarweg area 85, against the city median of 92. Quiet, public transport and green space lie above the city median.

Air is the lowest part in each of the first ten, with medians from 37 to 56 against 46 for the city. In the Niedermayrweg area green space shares that lowest figure, 56. The Planckstraße area has the lowest air score of the ten, 37, with 89 for green space, 91 for errands and 90 for public transport. Kleinwört takes another route, with 95 for quiet, 90 for green space and 65 for public transport. Each of the ten has quiet at or above the city median.

Which neighbourhoods of Linz have the lowest LAGE score?

The Lunzerstraße area has the lowest median of the 144, 20 across 572 addresses. Most of its addresses lie in land zoned for industry, and its streets carry names such as Stahlstraße, Kokereistraße and Sinterstraße. Its parts are 20 for quiet, 10 for green space and 8 for errands on foot, with 50 for public transport and 51 for air. The figure describes an industrial area.

Above it come the Mönchgrabenstraße area with 39 and the Kalkgruberweg area with 41. Two areas share 42, the Pachmayrstraße area and the Rudolfstraße / Kaarstraße area. These neighbourhoods reach a low score from opposite ends. The Kalkgruberweg area has 95 for quiet and 98 for green space, with 8 for errands and 50 for public transport. The Rudolfstraße / Kaarstraße area has 100 for public transport and 97 for errands, with 17 for quiet and 20 for air. The Kremsmünsterer Straße area, with a LAGE of 44, has 95 for quiet and 0 for errands.

LAGE combines the five parts as a geometric mean, so one low part weighs more than in a plain average. A quiet and green street far from the shops ends up below a street where every part reaches the middle. One weak part pulls the whole score down.

Are the quietest neighbourhoods of Linz also well connected?

Among the quietest neighbourhoods of Linz, three have 0.0 % of their addresses in public transport class A or B. The Mitterbergerweg area has 99.2 % of its addresses below 55 dB, the Traundorfer Straße / Knollgutstraße area 83.4 % and the Rappetsederweg area 78.8 %. In these areas the quiet street and the frequent stop lie apart.

These three are among the 14 neighbourhoods that share 0.0 % in class A or B. The Kremsmünsterer Straße area, the Mönchgrabenstraße area and the Pachmayrstraße area, three of the lowest LAGE scores, are among them too. The noise story for Linz gives the full ranking of the quietest neighbourhoods.

Across Linz, 56.0 % of the addresses lie in class A or B, 14,202 of 25,378. In 46 neighbourhoods every address lies in class A or B, and the Eichendorffstraße area, 89 of 89, the Brunnenfeldstraße area, 67 of 67, and the Albert-Schöpf-Straße area, 117 of 117, are among them. These three also sit among the top ten for LAGE.

The table lists ten of the 46 neighbourhoods at 100 % and ten of the 14 at 0.0 %, in alphabetical order within each tie. The classes come from the ÖROK, which grades every place from A to G by how often and how near public transport runs. Class A and B stand for frequent service close by.

Can I weight the parts myself?

The profile page lets you set your own priorities for the five parts. The standard LAGE weights them equally. If a quiet bedroom window matters more to you than the tram stop, give quiet more weight, and the map of Linz colours every neighbourhood by your own LAGE. The neighbourhood finder ranks the neighbourhoods by the same priorities, and 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, which cover every street in Linz, 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 rankings cover the 144 neighbourhoods with at least 60 addresses. Rents, prices and safety stay out of LAGE. The score describes the location.