Parks in Wels, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

In Wels, three neighbourhoods have a park within 300 m as the crow flies at every address, the Stadtplatz, Am Rosenhag / Birkenstraße and Edelweißstraße areas. Across the city, 29.7 % of the 11,390 addresses have a park that close, and the median distance to the nearest park is 509 m. Among the localities, Unterleithen leads with 92.9 %, and 18 of the 36 stand at 0 %.

For each address in Wels, we measure the distance as the crow flies to the nearest park in OpenStreetMap and count the share of addresses with a park within 300 m. The neighbourhoods are statistical areas of Statistik Austria, each named after a street inside it, and the comparison keeps the 52 with at least 60 addresses. The address register also names a locality for most addresses, such as Unterleithen, Laahen or Wimpassing, and Lagecheck compares all 36 localities. The map of Wels shows each neighbourhood with its park distance.

11,390 addresses. 52 neighbourhoods with 60 addresses or more. 36 localities.

In which neighbourhoods of Wels does every address have a park within 300 m?

In three neighbourhoods, every address has a park within 300 m. These are the Stadtplatz area, with 254 addresses, the Am Rosenhag / Birkenstraße area in Lichtenegg with 118 and the Edelweißstraße area in Wimpassing with 118. The Fabrikstraße area follows with 98.8 %, or 83 of 84, and the Otto-Loewi-Straße area in Wimpassing with 98.8 %, or 171 of 173. After the Kolpingstraße area with 96.1 %, the Hinterschweigerstraße / Paracelsusstraße area in Bernardin and the Wallerer Straße / Eferdinger Straße area both reach 89.8 %.

Across Wels, 3,383 of the 11,390 addresses have a park within 300 m. That is 29.7 %. In the data, the locality is empty for the Stadtplatz, Fabrikstraße, Kolpingstraße, Wallerer Straße / Eferdinger Straße and Kaiser-Josef-Platz areas, so they appear in this ranking and stay out of the table of localities. Each of the five reaches 86.1 % or more.

In which neighbourhoods of Wels is every address more than 300 m from a park?

In 19 of the 52 neighbourhoods, every address lies more than 300 m from a park, among them the Oberfeldstraße / Leo-Fall-Straße area in Laahen and the Römerstraße area in Oberhaid. The table shows the last ten of the ranking, all at 0 %. Among these ten, the Oberfeldstraße / Leo-Fall-Straße area is the largest, with 421 addresses, ahead of the Römerstraße area with 330, the Otto-Teufelberger-Straße area in Berg with 245 and the Rilkestraße area in Oberhart with 213. The Lichtenegger Straße / Trausenegger Damm area in Brandln follows with 175.

Within one locality, the share varies from street to street. Oberhart reaches 33.8 % as a whole, and its Rilkestraße area stands at 0 %. Oberhaid reaches 13.6 %, and its Römerstraße area and Oberfeldstraße / Straubinger Straße area stand at 0 %. The neighbourhood page shows the figure for each area.

In which localities of Wels do most addresses have a park within 300 m?

Unterleithen has the highest share, with 117 of its 126 addresses, or 92.9 %, ahead of Nöham with 90.9 %, or 40 of 44, and Wimpassing with 78.7 %, or 561 of 713. Puchberg follows with 69.0 % and Lichtenegg with 67.3 %, or 483 of its 718 addresses. Rosenau, with 52.7 %, is the last of the six localities above half. Wimpassing alone holds 16.6 % of all addresses in Wels with a park that close.

The table covers the addresses with a named locality. The figure of 29.7 % for the whole city counts every address, those with an empty locality included. The highest share stays at 92.9 %, so every locality has some addresses with the nearest park farther than 300 m.

In which localities of Wels is every address more than 300 m from a park?

Laahen, with 691 addresses, Brandln with 485, Niederthan with 280 and Haidl with 279 are the largest of the 18 localities at 0 %. For each of their addresses, the nearest park lies more than 300 m away. Schafwiesen, with 732 addresses, stands just above them at 0.3 %, or 2 addresses, and Hochpoint at 2.5 %.

How far is the nearest park in Wels?

The median distance to a park is 509 m for the whole city. Half the addresses lie closer, and half lie farther away. Puchberg has the lowest median, 98 m, ahead of Unterleithen with 103 m and Nöham with 143 m. Among the larger localities, Wimpassing has 181 m and Lichtenegg 198 m.

At the far end, Mitterlaab has a median of 1,937 m with 37 addresses, and Oberthan 1,916 m with 88. Stadlhof, with 163 addresses, reaches 1,628 m. Among the larger localities, Schafwiesen has 1,153 m for 732 addresses and Laahen 1,057 m for 691. In Aichberg, the share within 300 m is 0 %, and the median of 510 m comes close to the 509 m for the whole city. There, the nearest park lies beyond 300 m for every address and within 510 m for half of them.

How we counted

The address register of the BEV gives every address, and each address counts once, however many flats it has. Parks come from OpenStreetMap, with forests counted separately, and we measure the distance to the nearest park as the crow flies, so the walk along the streets runs longer. The data is from 12 October 2026. The method explains how green space enters LAGE. Under your priorities, you can give parks more weight, and the neighbourhood finder then ranks the neighbourhoods of Wels by those priorities. The story on the best areas of Wels ranks the neighbourhoods by LAGE, the story on living in Wels sets parks beside noise, air and errands, and the story on errands in Wels ranks the neighbourhoods by supermarket, doctor and primary school.