Neubau has the largest share of loud addresses of Vienna's 23 districts, with 63.5 % of its addresses at 65 dB or more at the loudest facade, against 23.6 % across Vienna. Alsergrund follows with 54.2 % and Brigittenau with 54 %, and Donaustadt has the smallest share, 9.7 %. By count, Liesing has the most loud addresses, 3,030.
The strategic noise maps of 2022 cover every street in Vienna, so we can read the road noise at each address of the city. For each address, we take the loudest band of road noise across the building's facades. From 65 dB on, an address counts as loud. We then count the loud addresses in each district and in each neighbourhood.
150,513 addresses. 23 districts. 35,459 loud addresses.
Which district of Vienna has the largest share of loud addresses?
Neubau has the largest share of loud addresses, 63.5 %, with 1,100 of its 1,733 addresses at 65 dB or more. Alsergrund follows with 54.2 %, 1,371 of 2,528, and Brigittenau with 54 %, 1,203 of 2,228. Josefstadt and Wieden come next with 47.9 % and 47.6 %. In each of these five districts, close to half of the addresses or more are loud.
| District | Addresses with road noise of 65 dB or more | Addresses |
|---|---|---|
| Neubau | 63.5 % | 1,100 of 1,733 |
| Alsergrund | 54.2 % | 1,371 of 2,528 |
| Brigittenau | 54.0 % | 1,203 of 2,228 |
| Josefstadt | 47.9 % | 638 of 1,331 |
| Wieden | 47.6 % | 825 of 1,732 |
| Margareten | 43.9 % | 1,035 of 2,355 |
| Landstraße | 43.6 % | 1,860 of 4,270 |
| Leopoldstadt | 37.8 % | 1,566 of 4,148 |
| Mariahilf | 37.8 % | 618 of 1,634 |
| Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus | 37.6 % | 1,432 of 3,809 |
| Favoriten | 26.7 % | 2,780 of 10,416 |
| Simmering | 26.4 % | 1,210 of 4,589 |
| Währing | 24.4 % | 1,213 of 4,981 |
| Döbling | 24.1 % | 1,992 of 8,276 |
| Liesing | 22.7 % | 3,030 of 13,345 |
| Hernals | 19.9 % | 1,164 of 5,841 |
| Penzing | 17.7 % | 2,129 of 12,000 |
| Floridsdorf | 14.4 % | 2,178 of 15,120 |
| Hietzing | 11.7 % | 1,216 of 10,360 |
| Donaustadt | 9.7 % | 2,394 of 24,796 |
| All of Vienna | 23.6 % | 35,459 of 150,513 |
Across Vienna, 23.6 % of the addresses are loud, roughly one address in four. Six districts lie below this share: Liesing, Hernals, Penzing, Floridsdorf, Hietzing and Donaustadt. All the others lie above it. Donaustadt has the smallest share, 9.7 %, and the quietest districts of Vienna look at that end of the scale.
Which district of Vienna has the most loud addresses by count?
Liesing has the most loud addresses, 3,030, or 8.5 % of all 35,459 loud addresses in Vienna. Its share of 22.7 % lies close to the share of the city as a whole, 23.6 %. Favoriten follows with 2,780 loud addresses at a share of 26.7 %. Donaustadt has the most addresses of all districts, 24,796, so its small share still covers more loud addresses, 2,394, than the large share of Neubau with 1,100. The count and the share name different districts.
Which neighbourhoods of Vienna are loudest?
The Rosensteingasse / Taubergasse area in Hernals is the loudest of the 737 neighbourhoods we compared. All 83 of its addresses have road noise of 65 dB or more, and it is the only neighbourhood at 100 %. The Schönbrunner Schloßstraße area in Meidling follows with 98 %, 99 of 101 addresses, and the U-Bahn Bogen / Lustkandlgasse area in Alsergrund with 90 %, 54 of 60. Hernals as a district lies below the city's share. It still holds the loudest neighbourhood.
| Neighbourhood | Addresses with road noise of 65 dB or more | Addresses |
|---|---|---|
| Rosensteingasse / Taubergasse areaHernals | 100.0 % | 83 of 83 |
| Schönbrunner Schloßstraße areaMeidling | 98.0 % | 99 of 101 |
| U-Bahn Bogen / Lustkandlgasse areaAlsergrund | 90.0 % | 54 of 60 |
| Semperstraße areaWähring | 88.7 % | 63 of 71 |
| Schönbrunner Straße / Bräuhausgasse areaMargareten | 86.9 % | 53 of 61 |
| Schönbrunner Straße / Pilgramgasse areaMargareten | 86.9 % | 53 of 61 |
| Neustiftgasse / Faßziehergasse areaNeubau | 86.2 % | 56 of 65 |
| Triester Straße / Sobotagasse areaLiesing | 85.6 % | 83 of 97 |
| Kinderspitalgasse areaAlsergrund | 85.0 % | 68 of 80 |
| Kaiser-Ebersdorfer Straße / Simmeringer Hauptstraße areaSimmering | 83.1 % | 64 of 77 |
| All of Vienna | 23.6 % | 35,459 of 150,513 |
This table counts neighbourhoods with at least 60 addresses.
The Semperstraße area in Währing comes fourth with 88.7 %. After it, two areas in Margareten, the Schönbrunner Straße / Bräuhausgasse area and the Schönbrunner Straße / Pilgramgasse area, share fifth place with 86.9 %, 53 of 61 addresses each. Two of the ten loudest neighbourhoods lie in Alsergrund and two in Margareten, and the ten spread over 8 districts. In each of the ten, more than eight in ten addresses are loud.
Which areas of Vienna stay below 65 dB, even in the centre?
In 84 of the 737 neighbourhoods, every address lies below 65 dB, and they include two areas in the Innere Stadt, the Tuchlauben area and the Weihburggasse area. These 84 share the same figure, 0 %. They also include the Veitingergasse area in Hietzing with 539 addresses and the Wolfsmilchgasse area in Donaustadt with 492. So the centre of the city also holds neighbourhoods at 0 %.
How we counted
The noise maps come from the federal ministry BMLUK, which publishes them under the EU Environmental Noise Directive. This story counts road traffic only, and railways, airports and industry stay out of it. The maps give the noise as Lden, an average over day, evening and night in which evening noise carries 5 dB and night noise 10 dB extra. The address register of the BEV gives every address, and each address counts once, however many flats it has. The neighbourhoods are statistical areas of Statistik Austria, each named after a street inside it.
The report of each address shows its loudest facade, and the map of Vienna shows the noise of each neighbourhood. The method explains how noise enters LAGE, and on the page for your priorities you weight quiet against public transport and green space.