Living in Donaustadt, Vienna's 22nd district, in figures

Donaustadt, Vienna's 22nd district, has a median LAGE of 68, our score from 0 to 100 for a place to live, against 65 for Vienna, and ranks 3rd of 23 districts. It has the smallest share of addresses with road noise of 65 dB or more, 9.7 % against 23.6 %. A supermarket lies within 500 m of 56.8 % of its 24,796 addresses and a primary school of 36.4 %, the lowest shares of the 23 districts.

For each address in Donaustadt, Vienna's 22nd district, we look up the road noise at the loudest facade, the air, the stops nearby, the nearest park and the shops, doctors and schools within walking distance. LAGE, a score from 0 to 100, sums these up in five parts, quiet, air, transit, green and errands, and flood areas lower it. We then set each figure of the district against the whole of Vienna and rank it among the 23 districts. The neighbourhoods are statistical areas of Statistik Austria, each named after a street inside it, and the neighbourhood table keeps the ones with at least 30 addresses.

24,796 addresses. 79 neighbourhoods with at least 30 addresses. Rank 3 of 23 districts for LAGE.

What is it like to live in Donaustadt?

The middle address of Donaustadt has a LAGE of 68, against 65 for Vienna, and the district ranks 3rd of 23. The story on the best districts of Vienna to live in ranks all 23 districts by LAGE. The district's part medians are 87 for quiet, 58 for air, 90 for transit, 64 for green and 85 for errands. Donaustadt also holds the most addresses of any district in Vienna, 24,796, and Floridsdorf has the second most. The table gives every measure of the district against the city, with its rank among the 23 districts.

In the rank column, 1 stands for the highest figure. For road noise, the air, flood areas and the distance to a park, the highest figure is the weaker end, so 23rd for loud addresses means the smallest share of all districts. Donaustadt's best place among the districts is this smallest share of loud addresses. It has the lowest shares of all 23 for a supermarket and a primary school within 500 m.

How loud is Donaustadt?

Donaustadt has the smallest share of loud addresses in Vienna. Road noise reaches 65 dB or more at 2,394 of its 24,796 addresses, 9.7 %, against 23.6 % for the whole city, and Hietzing comes next. At the quiet end, 10,413 addresses, 42.0 %, have road noise below 55 dB, the 2nd highest share of the 23 districts, against 25.1 % for Vienna. The noise figure belongs to the loudest facade of each address, so a flat facing a courtyard can lie in a quieter band. The story on the quietest districts of Vienna ranks all 23 districts.

How clean is the air in Donaustadt?

Donaustadt has the 2nd lowest nitrogen dioxide median of the 23 districts, 21.1 µg/m³ against 25.8 µg/m³ for Vienna, and the highest fine dust median, PM2.5 at 12.1 µg/m³ against 11.3 µg/m³. The two air figures point in opposite directions. Both come from the air models of the European Environment Agency, and a lower value means cleaner air. The air part has a median of 58.

How good is public transport in Donaustadt?

In Donaustadt, 13,215 addresses, 53.3 %, lie in public transport class A or B, against 68.8 % for Vienna. The district ranks 21st of 23 on this share. The ÖROK classes rate public transport by the stops within walking distance and how often they are served, from A down to G. The transit part still reaches a median of 90, while about half of the addresses lie in class C or lower.

How far is it to the shops, the doctor and the school?

Donaustadt has the lowest share of the 23 districts for a supermarket within 500 m, 56.8 % or 14,093 addresses, against 73.8 % for Vienna, with Penzing next. It also has the lowest share for a primary school within 500 m, 36.4 % or 9,014 addresses, against 59.2 % for the city. A doctor lies within 500 m of 47.7 % of the addresses, against 66.4 % for Vienna, and the district ranks 20th on that share. All distances are as the crow flies. The errands part has a median of 85.

How green is Donaustadt?

A park lies within 300 m of 53.5 % of the addresses, against 66.4 % for Vienna, and the district ranks 21st on this share. The median distance to the nearest park is 280 m, against 215 m for the city. The park figures count the parks mapped in OpenStreetMap, and forests stay out of the count. The green part has a median of 64.

Does flooding matter in Donaustadt?

Flood areas touch few addresses in Donaustadt. 23 addresses, 0.1 %, lie in a 30- or 100-year flood area, and the same 0.1 % in a mapped flood area up to 300 years. For Vienna, the shares are 0.5 % and 0.6 %.

How fast has Donaustadt grown, and how old are its residents?

The number of residents in Donaustadt grew by 51.1 % from 2008 to 2025, against 21.4 % for Vienna, the largest growth of the 23 districts. 16.4 % of the residents are under 15, against 14.3 % for the city, the 2nd highest share. 15.1 % are aged 65 or more, against 16.7 % for Vienna, and the median age is 39, against 40. These figures count people and come from the city's population series, and every other figure in this story counts addresses.

Which neighbourhoods of Donaustadt score highest?

Two neighbourhoods share the highest LAGE of the district, 84. The Ilse-Arlt-Straße area has 270 addresses, and the Sonnenallee / Ilse-Buck-Straße area has 58. Both reach 95 for quiet, 63 for air and 90 for transit. The Ilse-Arlt-Straße area also has 97 for errands, and the Sonnenallee / Ilse-Buck-Straße area 86 for green. The Schiffmühlenstraße / Am Kaisermühlendamm area follows with 80 and the Schiffmühlenstraße / Schüttaustraße area with 79.

The three largest neighbourhoods spread across the ranking. The Industriestraße area has 1,221 addresses and a LAGE of 73, the Schafflerhofstraße area 1,393 addresses and 66, and the Podlahagasse area 1,348 addresses and 56, among the ten lowest below. The map of Vienna shows every neighbourhood of Donaustadt with its LAGE.

Where is LAGE lowest in Donaustadt?

The Revier Mühlleiten area has the lowest LAGE of the district, 24, across 32 addresses. It reaches 95 for quiet and 71 for air. Transit stands at 5 and errands at 2. LAGE is a geometric mean of the five parts, so one weak part weighs more than in a plain average. The same holds for the Telephonweg area, with 781 addresses, 95 for quiet, 87 for green and 0 for errands, and a LAGE of 43. The Hänischgasse area has 9 for errands and a LAGE of 42.

A second group sits near the bottom for the opposite reason. The Wagramer Straße / Meißauergasse area, at 50, and the Donaufelder Straße / Doningasse area, at 49, both reach 100 for transit and for errands. Their quiet part stands at 17. Most of the ten lowest neighbourhoods fall into one of the two groups, with a low errands part or with road noise.

Your own LAGE

The standard LAGE weighs its five parts equally. If the school matters more to you than the quiet, set your own priorities, and the map of Vienna colours every neighbourhood by your own LAGE. The story on living in Vienna gives the same figures for the whole city.

How we counted

The address register of the BEV gives every address, and each address counts once, however many flats it has. Road noise comes from the strategic noise maps 2022 of the federal ministry BMLUK, as Lden at the loudest facade, and flood areas from the flood risk zones of the BMLUK. The air figures come from the models of the European Environment Agency, public transport from the ÖROK classes 2025, and parks and shops from OpenStreetMap and the city's directories. The residents come from the population series of the City of Vienna, MA 23, for 2008 to 2025. The data is from 12 October 2026.

The district figures count every address in Donaustadt, and the neighbourhood table keeps the 79 neighbourhoods with at least 30 addresses. The method explains each part of LAGE.