Salzburg's quietest neighbourhoods by road noise, address by address

The Fischbachstraße area is Salzburg's quietest neighbourhood for road noise, with 100 % of its 194 addresses below 55 dB, compared with 46.3 % across the city. The Fichtenweg area follows with 97.7 %. The Saint-Julien-Straße / Plainstraße area is the loudest, with 80 % of its addresses at 65 dB or more.

The 2022 strategic noise maps cover every street in Salzburg, 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. An address counts as quiet when even this loudest facade stays below 55 dB, the level where the maps begin. From 65 dB on, it counts as loud. The neighbourhoods Lagecheck compares are statistical areas of Statistik Austria, each named after a street inside it, and the comparison keeps those with at least 60 addresses. The map of Salzburg shows each neighbourhood.

23,222 addresses. 153 neighbourhoods.

Which part of Salzburg is the quietest?

The Fischbachstraße area is the quietest neighbourhood of Salzburg, as all 194 of its addresses stay below 55 dB. It is the only one of the 153 neighbourhoods at 100 %. The Fichtenweg area follows with 97.7 %, 125 of 128 addresses, and the Dr.-Sylvester-Straße area with 96.7 %, 174 of 180 addresses. The Mühldorfgasse area and the Schwarzenbergpromenade area follow in fourth and fifth place, both above 90 %. The Adam-Müller-Guttenbrunn-Str. and Zillertalstraße areas close the top ten with 87.7 % each.

How quiet is Salzburg as a whole?

Across the city, 10,751 of the 23,222 addresses lie below 55 dB, or 46.3 %. Almost half of Salzburg's addresses are quiet.

Where in Salzburg are quiet addresses rarest?

The Maxstraße area and the Steingasse area share the bottom of the quiet ranking with 0 %. In the Maxstraße area, all 140 addresses have road noise of 55 dB or more, and in the Steingasse area all 104. The Schmiedingerstraße / Abtsdorferstraße area follows just above them with 1.2 %, 2 of its 160 addresses, and the Saint-Julien-Straße / Plainstraße area with 1.3 %, one of its 75. In each of the ten neighbourhoods at this end, the share of quiet addresses stays below 3 %.

Where in Salzburg does road traffic get loudest?

The Saint-Julien-Straße / Plainstraße area has the largest share of loud addresses, as 60 of its 75 addresses reach 65 dB or more, or 80 %. The Saint-Julien-Straße / Elisabethstraße area follows with 77.8 %, 56 of 72 addresses, and the Ernest-Thun-Straße area with 76.7 %, 46 of 60. Across Salzburg, 4,441 addresses are loud, or 19.1 %. The Steingasse area appears at both ends, with 0 % quiet addresses and 65.4 % loud ones, 68 of 104.

Which neighbourhoods keep every address below 65 dB?

Of the 153 neighbourhoods, 20 keep every address below 65 dB, so they share the lowest figure of the loud ranking. The table shows ten of the 20. The Höglwörthweg area is the largest of these ten, with 381 addresses, and 88.5 % of them lie below 55 dB. It also stands in the quiet top ten, beside the Zillertalstraße area. The Mühldorfgasse and Schwarzenbergpromenade areas appear on both lists as well, each above 90 % quiet and with every address below 65 dB.

How we counted

The noise maps come from the federal ministry BMLUK, which publishes them for roads, railways, airports and industry under the EU Environmental Noise Directive. This story counts road traffic only. The maps model the noise as Lden, an average over day, evening and night in which evening noise carries 5 dB and night noise 10 dB extra, and they draw it in bands from 55 dB upward. Below 55 dB therefore means below the lowest mapped band. The address register of the BEV gives every address, and each address counts once, however many flats it has.

The report of each address shows the loudest facade, and the method explains how quiet enters LAGE. On your priorities you weight quiet against public transport and green space. The profile of Salzburg sets road noise beside flood areas, public transport and parks.