The best neighbourhoods to live in Salzburg, by the LAGE score

The Linzer Gasse area has the highest LAGE, our score from 0 to 100 for a place to live, of the 153 Salzburg neighbourhoods compared, a median of 80 across 81 addresses against 65 for the city. The Bucklreuthstraße and Hildebrandtgasse areas follow with 79. The Gaisberg area comes last with 40, quiet and green with low scores for transit and errands, and the loud Saint-Julien-Straße / Plainstraße area has 42, with 100 for transit and errands.

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 Salzburg with the same rules, from open data. For each neighbourhood, the table gives 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 Salzburg shows every neighbourhood.

23,222 addresses. 153 neighbourhoods. A city median of 65.

Which part of Salzburg has the highest LAGE score?

The Linzer Gasse area comes first with a median of 80 across 81 addresses, against 65 for the whole city. It has 95 for quiet, 100 for public transport and 99 for errands on foot. The Bucklreuthstraße area, with 97 addresses, and the Hildebrandtgasse area, with 101, share second place with 79. The Herrengasse area and the Mönchsberg area follow with 77, the Alexander-Moissi-Straße area with 76 and the Kleßheimer Allee area with 75. Three areas share 74 at the end of the ten highest, the Dr.-Adolf-Altmann-Straße area, the Getreidegasse / Universitätsplatz area and the Kaigasse area.

What do the top neighbourhoods have in common?

All ten have at least 87 for quiet, the city median, and six of them reach 95. The story on Salzburg's quietest neighbourhoods shows road noise area by area. Eight of the ten also have 91 or more for errands on foot, the median of the city. Six of the ten have 100 for public transport, and in the Bucklreuthstraße and Alexander-Moissi-Straße areas every address lies in public transport class A or B, against 55.2 % across the city. Air stays between 42 and 54 across the ten, close to the 47 of the city. A neighbourhood at the top combines quiet streets with short walks.

Green space varies more. The Mönchsberg area has 97 for green and the Linzer Gasse area 81, while the Getreidegasse / Universitätsplatz area has 44 and the Kaigasse area 50, below the city median of 62. The Getreidegasse / Universitätsplatz area matches the Linzer Gasse area for quiet, with 95, and has 100 for transit and 99 for errands. The Dr.-Adolf-Altmann-Straße area has 78 for green, and its weaker parts are transit and errands, with 78 and 81. Each of the three at 74 trails the first place in green space.

Which neighbourhoods have the lowest LAGE score?

The Gaisberg area has the lowest median, 40 across 64 addresses, and the Saint-Julien-Straße / Plainstraße area follows with 42 across 75 addresses. The two show opposite shapes. The Gaisberg area has 98 for green space, 95 for quiet and 68 for air, and only 25 for public transport and 10 for errands on foot. The Saint-Julien-Straße / Plainstraße area has 100 for public transport and 100 for errands, and 17 for quiet, 26 for air and 29 for green space. In the Gaisberg area, 89.1 % of the addresses have modelled road noise below 55 dB even at their loudest facade, and in the Saint-Julien-Straße / Plainstraße area 1.3 %. Both end up at the bottom of the ranking.

Above them, three neighbourhoods share a median of 45. The Siebenstädterstraße area, with 67 addresses, has 87 for quiet and 26 for air. The Maxglaner Hauptstraße / Wehrgasse area has 87 addresses, and the Schmiedingerstraße / Abtsdorferstraße area 160.

Why do quiet, green areas like Gaisberg score low?

LAGE uses a geometric mean, so one weak part weighs more than in a plain average. A green hillside 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 Fichtenweg area, with a median of 49, shows the green shape again, with 95 for quiet, 96 for green space and 38 for transit. The method also lowers LAGE for natural hazards such as floods, and that factor stays outside the table. The story on flood areas in Salzburg names the neighbourhoods concerned.

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 the forest matters more to you than the bus stop, give green space more weight, and the map of Salzburg colours every neighbourhood by your own LAGE. The method page gives the rule for each part, and the profile of Salzburg sets the city figures side by side.

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 figures cover the 153 neighbourhoods with at least 60 addresses. Rents, prices and safety stay outside LAGE. The score describes the location.