The best places to live around Vienna, town by town

Gießhübl in the district of Mödling has the highest LAGE of the 351 ranked towns around Vienna, our score from 0 to 100 for a place to live, with a median of 78. Langenzersdorf follows with 77, and Guntersdorf and Hardegg share the lowest median, 30. Among 1,172 neighbourhoods, the J. Strauß-Gasse area in Guntramsdorf and the Tannhäuser-Ring area in Himberg share the highest median, 81. All addresses together have a median of 62.

LAGE, a score from 0 to 100, sums up an address as a place to live in five parts: quiet, clean air, the time to Vienna, green space and errands. Natural hazards such as floods lower it. Around Vienna, we work it out for each address with the village rule, from open data. For each town, the table gives the median, the score of the address in the middle once all of them are lined up. We rank the towns with at least 60 addresses and the neighbourhoods inside them.

501,916 addresses. 351 ranked towns. 1,172 neighbourhoods with at least 60 addresses.

Which towns around Vienna have the highest LAGE score?

Gießhübl in the district of Mödling comes first with a median of 78. Its 718 addresses lie a median 3.3 km from Vienna's city border. Langenzersdorf in the district of Korneuburg follows with 77, and its 3,444 addresses lie a median 1.4 km from the border. Lanzendorf in the district of Bruck an der Leitha shares third place with 76, together with Sooß and Tattendorf in the district of Baden. Seven towns follow with 75, among them Biedermannsdorf and Laxenburg in the district of Mödling and Gablitz in the district of St. Pölten-Land.

Maria-Lanzendorf, in the tenth row, shares its 75 with Markgrafneusiedl in the district of Gänserndorf and Pottendorf in the district of Baden.

What sets the highest towns apart?

The top ten stand out in the time to Vienna and the errands. Each of them scores between 62 and 86 for the time to Vienna, where the area median is 54, and between 82 and 99 for errands, where it is 77. Langenzersdorf has the highest of both among them, 86 and 99. Quiet and air vary little among the top ten. Gießhübl scores 86 for quiet and 71 for air, close to the medians of the whole area, 85 and 71.

Green varies most. Gablitz reaches 94 and Laxenburg 88, while Leopoldsdorf and Maria-Lanzendorf score 62, just below the area median of 64.

How much does the distance from Vienna matter?

The LAGE falls ring by ring. In the towns up to 15 km from Vienna's city border, the median of their 185,029 addresses is 68. In the towns from 15 to 30 km out it is 63, across 146,666 addresses, and in the towns beyond 30 km it is 56, across 170,221. The whole area has a median of 62.

A few towns farther out still reach the top. Sooß and Tattendorf lie 15.5 and 18.2 km from the border, in the second ring, and score 62 and 65 for the time to Vienna. For errands they score 93 and 84, and for green 78 and 87. Pottendorf, 23.4 km out, reaches 75. All three lie in the district of Baden. They are the only towns at 75 or more beyond 15 km.

Where do the towns of Mödling, Klosterneuburg and Baden stand?

The towns of Mödling, Klosterneuburg and Baden lie between the top ten and the area median of 62. Purkersdorf in the district of St. Pölten-Land reaches 73, Maria Enzersdorf in the district of Mödling 72 and Klosterneuburg in the district of Tulln 69. Perchtoldsdorf follows with 67, the town of Baden with 65, Brunn am Gebirge with 64 and the town of Mödling with 63.

Each of these seven scores 92 or more for errands. Green scores lower in several of them. The town of Mödling scores 37 for green, the town of Baden 44 and Perchtoldsdorf 55, where the area median is 64. Three of their neighbourhoods rank among the ten highest. The Buchenweg area in Perchtoldsdorf has 80, and the Erzherzogin Isabelle-Straße area in Baden and the Linzer Straße area in Purkersdorf have 79 each.

Which towns have the lowest LAGE?

Guntersdorf and Hardegg, both in the district of Hollabrunn, share the lowest median, 30. Guntersdorf lies 44.4 km from the city border, with 758 addresses, and Hardegg 70.2 km, with 960. Gnadendorf follows with 32 and Röschitz with 34. All ten towns at the bottom lie beyond 30 km, six of them in the district of Mistelbach, two in the district of Horn and two in the district of Hollabrunn.

At this end, the time to Vienna and the errands score low. The ten towns score between 0 and 40 for the time to Vienna and between 10 and 57 for errands, while their air lies between 73 and 77. Hardegg scores 0 for the time to Vienna, the mark for 120 minutes or more, and 84 for green. Guntersdorf scores 40 for the time to Vienna and 11 each for green and errands.

Which neighbourhoods score highest and lowest?

Of the 1,172 neighbourhoods we compared, the J. Strauß-Gasse area in Guntramsdorf, with 682 addresses, and the Tannhäuser-Ring area in Himberg, with 394, share the top with 81. The Buchenweg area in Perchtoldsdorf and the Seeschlacht area in Langenzersdorf follow with 80. Himberg holds a second neighbourhood in the top ten, the Hauptstraße area at 79. Every neighbourhood of the top ten scores 79 or more for quiet and 89 or more for errands.

At the low end, the Obermarkersdorf area in Schrattenthal, with 227 addresses, and the Wartberg area in Straning-Grafenberg, with 82, share the lowest figure, 22. The Felling area in Hardegg and the Theras area in Sigmundsherberg follow with 23. Six of the ten lowest neighbourhoods lie in towns of the bottom ten, two of them in Hardegg. The Felling area scores 91 for green and 5 for errands.

The errands count the shops, doctors and schools in OpenStreetMap. In a small village, a very low score for errands can also mark a gap in the map.

Can I weight the parts myself?

The standard LAGE weights its five parts equally. If green space matters more to you than the time to Vienna, set your own priorities, and the map Around Vienna colours each 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. The trips by public transport come from the timetables of the Mobilitätsverbünde Österreich, with the walks on the paths of OpenStreetMap, and the drive time assumes free-flowing traffic. Noise comes from the strategic noise maps 2022 of the BMLUK, which cover the major roads in Lower Austria and Burgenland, and the side streets carry an estimate. Flood areas come from the flood risk zones of the BMLUK, the air from the models of the European Environment Agency, the public transport classes from the ÖV-Güteklassen 2025 of the ÖROK, and shops, doctors and schools from OpenStreetMap. Noise and air are model values, and the distances to the errands are as the crow flies. The data is as of 23 October 2026.

Around Vienna, LAGE follows the village rule. Its time to Vienna takes the better of public transport and car, the drive × 1.5 plus 5 minutes to park, scored from 20 to 120 minutes, and errands count in full within 2 km and by half up to 4 km. So the LAGE around Vienna stands on its own, separate from the LAGE of the cities. The distance of a town is the median distance of its addresses to Vienna's city border. The story Living around Vienna and commuting to Vienna, in figures gives the other measures of the area, and The best districts of Vienna to live in answers the same question for the city. Rents and prices stay out of LAGE. The score describes the location.