The Innere Stadt and Sankt Leonhard have the best public transport of all districts in Graz, with 98.5 % and 98 % of their addresses in public transport class A or B, the two best official classes, against 43.6 % across the city. Ries has the smallest share with 13.2 %, and Puntigam and Waltendorf follow with 19.5 % and 21.4 %.
Austria's official public transport classes, the ÖV-Güteklassen of ÖROK, grade every place by the stops nearby. Each stop gets a category from its kind of service and from how often it runs on weekdays. Around the stop, the classes run from A, the best, to G, and the class drops as the walk to the stop grows. For each address in Graz, we take the class it lies in and count the share of addresses in class A or B.
45,186 addresses. 17 districts. 210 neighbourhoods with 60 addresses or more.
Which district of Graz has the best public transport?
The Innere Stadt has the best public transport in Graz, with 829 of its 842 addresses, or 98.5 %, in class A or B. Sankt Leonhard follows closely with 98 %, and Jakomini comes third with 86.8 %. By count, Jakomini has the most addresses in class A or B of any district, 2,430 or 12.3 % of those in all of Graz. Across the city, 19,686 of the 45,186 addresses lie in the two best classes. That is 43.6 %.
| District | Addresses in public transport class A or B | Addresses |
|---|---|---|
| Innere Stadt | 98.5 % | 829 of 842 |
| Sankt Leonhard | 98.0 % | 1,551 of 1,583 |
| Jakomini | 86.8 % | 2,430 of 2,798 |
| Gries | 80.3 % | 2,065 of 2,571 |
| Geidorf | 70.4 % | 1,906 of 2,709 |
| Lend | 69.9 % | 1,600 of 2,288 |
| Eggenberg | 58.7 % | 1,699 of 2,895 |
| Gösting | 39.1 % | 725 of 1,854 |
| Wetzelsdorf | 32.5 % | 858 of 2,642 |
| Straßgang | 28.2 % | 1,150 of 4,075 |
| Andritz | 27.2 % | 1,288 of 4,728 |
| Mariatrost | 26.7 % | 693 of 2,597 |
| Liebenau | 25.7 % | 859 of 3,341 |
| Sankt Peter | 21.7 % | 771 of 3,546 |
| Waltendorf | 21.4 % | 562 of 2,628 |
| Puntigam | 19.5 % | 495 of 2,534 |
| Ries | 13.2 % | 205 of 1,555 |
| All of Graz | 43.6 % | 19,686 of 45,186 |
On the map of Graz, each neighbourhood shows its share of addresses in class A or B when you open it.
Which districts of Graz are well connected?
Seven districts lie above the city-wide share of 43.6 %. After the Innere Stadt, Sankt Leonhard and Jakomini come Gries with 80.3 %, Geidorf with 70.4 % and Lend with 69.9 %. Six of the seven lie in the centre of the city, and Eggenberg in the west closes the group with 58.7 %. In these districts, most addresses lie in the two best classes.
Where in Graz is public transport weakest?
Ries has the smallest share, 13.2 %, or 205 of its 1,555 addresses. Puntigam follows with 19.5 % and Waltendorf with 21.4 %. The ten districts below the city-wide share run from Gösting at 39.1 % down to Ries, and they include the two districts with the most addresses in Graz. In Andritz, 1,288 of 4,728 addresses lie in class A or B, and in Straßgang 1,150 of 4,075. At the edge of the city, most addresses lie outside the two best classes.
Which neighbourhoods of Graz have the best public transport?
In 53 of the 210 neighbourhoods we compared, every address lies in class A or B. The table shows ten of them, from the Andrägasse area in Gries to the Goethestraße area in Geidorf, and below them ten of the 19 neighbourhoods at 0 %. In those, every address lies in class C or lower, or outside the classes. The largest is the Obere Teichstraße area in Waltendorf, with 652 addresses, all in classes C to F. Three of the ten shown at 0 % lie in Ries, the Riesstraße area, the Stiftingtalstraße / Ortnerstraße area and the Stiftingtalstraße / Rohrbachhöhe area.
| Neighbourhood | Addresses in public transport class A or B | Addresses |
|---|---|---|
| Andrägasse areaGries | 100.0 % | 127 of 127 |
| Auersperggasse areaGeidorf | 100.0 % | 154 of 154 |
| Beethovenstraße areaSankt Leonhard | 100.0 % | 102 of 102 |
| Brockmanngasse / Kopernikusgasse areaJakomini | 100.0 % | 69 of 69 |
| Brockmanngasse / Steyrergasse areaJakomini | 100.0 % | 97 of 97 |
| Burggasse areaInnere Stadt | 100.0 % | 138 of 138 |
| Carnerigasse areaGeidorf | 100.0 % | 66 of 66 |
| Dreihackengasse areaGries | 100.0 % | 66 of 66 |
| Elisabethstraße areaGeidorf | 100.0 % | 124 of 124 |
| Goethestraße areaGeidorf | 100.0 % | 99 of 99 |
| Obere Teichstraße areaWaltendorf | 0.0 % | 0 of 652 |
| Payer-Weyprecht-Straße areaGries | 0.0 % | 0 of 60 |
| Raachgasse areaGösting | 0.0 % | 0 of 173 |
| Richard-Wagner-Gasse areaGeidorf | 0.0 % | 0 of 80 |
| Riesstraße areaRies | 0.0 % | 0 of 349 |
| Schwarzer Weg areaStraßgang | 0.0 % | 0 of 157 |
| St.-Veiter-Straße areaAndritz | 0.0 % | 0 of 322 |
| Stiftingtalstraße / Ortnerstraße areaRies | 0.0 % | 0 of 163 |
| Stiftingtalstraße / Rohrbachhöhe areaRies | 0.0 % | 0 of 322 |
| Weizbachweg areaAndritz | 0.0 % | 0 of 162 |
| All of Graz | 43.6 % | 19,686 of 45,186 |
The list counts neighbourhoods with at least 60 addresses.
Does public transport change within a district?
Within Geidorf, the share runs from 100 % in several neighbourhoods to 0 % in the Richard-Wagner-Gasse area. The Auersperggasse area with 154 addresses, the Elisabethstraße area with 124 and the Goethestraße area with 99 reach 100 %, and the Richard-Wagner-Gasse area, with 80 addresses, has 0 %. Gries shows the same pattern, with the Andrägasse area and the Dreihackengasse area at 100 % and the Payer-Weyprecht-Straße area at 0 %. A district figure sums up many streets, and the class can change from one street to the next.
How we counted
The ÖV-Güteklassen 2025 come from ÖROK, the Austrian Conference on Spatial Planning, and AustriaTech publishes them. The classes rate the weekday service at each stop and measure the distance to the stop as the crow flies, so evening and weekend timetables stay out of the count. The address register of the BEV gives every address, and each address counts once, however many flats it has. The building report of each address names its class, the nearest stop and its lines, and the method explains how public transport enters LAGE. Under your priorities, you can give public transport more weight. The neighbourhood finder then ranks the neighbourhoods of Graz by those priorities.