Living in Linz, the neighbourhoods in figures

Linz has a median LAGE of 64 across its 25,378 addresses, on our score from 0 to 100 for a place to live. Its neighbourhoods range from 78 in the Eichendorffstraße and Polgarweg areas to 20 in the Lunzerstraße area. Road noise stays below 55 dB at 43.3 % of the addresses and at every address of the Voltastraße area. 56 % lie in public transport class A or B, and 68.2 % have a park within 300 m.

For each address in Linz, 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. The neighbourhoods Lagecheck compares are statistical areas of Statistik Austria, each named after a street inside it, and we rank the ones with at least 60 addresses. The map of Linz shows every neighbourhood.

25,378 addresses. 276 neighbourhoods. 144 of them ranked.

What is it like to live in Linz?

Across all addresses of Linz, the LAGE median is 64. More than half of the addresses lie in public transport class A or B, two in three have a park within 300 m, and road noise stays below 55 dB at 43.3 % of them. The table gives each measure for the whole city, with the ranked neighbourhood at each end.

Many ranked neighbourhoods reach 100 % on the everyday measures. In 46 ranked neighbourhoods, every address lies in transit class A or B, in 47 every address has a park within 300 m, and in 60 every address has a supermarket within 500 m. At the other end, 14 ranked neighbourhoods have every address outside class A and B, and in six the nearest park lies over 300 m away from every address.

Which parts of Linz have the highest LAGE score?

The Eichendorffstraße area, with 89 addresses, and the Polgarweg area, with 186, share the highest LAGE median, 78. Both reach 95 for quiet and 100 for transit, against city medians of 87 and 90. The Brunnenfeldstraße and Weinheberstraße areas follow at 77. In all ten neighbourhoods at the top, the quiet part lies at 87 or higher.

The Lunzerstraße area has the lowest median, 20, across 572 addresses. Its parts are quiet 20, air 51, transit 50, green 10 and errands 8, against city medians of 87, 46, 90, 60 and 92. Further up the list, several neighbourhoods score high for quiet and green and low for errands. In the Kremsmünsterer Straße area, quiet reaches 95 and green 97, and errands lie at 0. LAGE combines the five parts as a geometric mean, so one low part pulls a quiet and green neighbourhood down. With your own priorities, you set how much each part counts.

Where is it quietest?

In the Voltastraße area, all 189 addresses have road noise below 55 dB, and it is the only ranked neighbourhood where this holds. The Mitterbergerweg area follows with 99.2 % and the Kleinwört area with 96.9 %. The Kleinwört area also lies among the three neighbourhoods with a LAGE median of 74. Across the city, 10,994 addresses stay below 55 dB.

At the other end, three ranked neighbourhoods have road noise of 55 dB or more at every address. They are the Freistädter Straße / Pleschinger Straße area with 71 addresses, the Prager Straße area with 93 and the Scharitzerstraße / Südtirolerstraße area with 75.

Where is road traffic loudest?

The Dametzstraße area has the largest share of loud addresses, with 81.3 % at 65 dB or more. Across the city, road noise of 65 dB or more reaches 5,993 addresses, 23.6 %. In nine ranked neighbourhoods, every address stays below 65 dB.

How clean is the air?

The air model puts nitrogen dioxide at a median of 26.4 µg/m³ and fine dust PM2.5 at 13.8 µg/m³. For nitrogen dioxide, the Altstadt area has the highest value, 34.1, and the Leonfeldner Straße / Neufahrergasse area the lowest, 9.0. For fine dust, the Kreiskystraße area lies highest at 16.1 and the Pachmayrstraße area lowest at 10.7. Here a lower value means cleaner air.

How far is it to the stop, the park and the shops?

56 % of the addresses in Linz lie in public transport class A or B, and a park lies within 300 m of 68.2 %. The ÖROK classes rate public transport by the stops within walking distance and how often they are served, from A down to G. A supermarket lies within 500 m of 69.4 % of the addresses, a doctor within 500 m of 62.9 % and a primary school within 500 m of 54.9 %. All distances are as the crow flies.

Where do flood areas lie?

The Freistädter Straße / Pleschinger Straße area has the largest share of addresses in a flood area, 70.4 % up to the 300-year flood and 59.2 % in a 30- or 100-year area. Across Linz, 1,028 addresses, 4.1 %, lie in a mapped flood area up to the 300-year flood, and 915 of them, 3.6 % of the city, in a 30- or 100-year flood area. 114 of the 144 ranked neighbourhoods have 0 % of their addresses in a flood area.

Who lives in Linz?

The residents of Linz have a median age of 41. 13.6 % of them are under 15, and 19.1 % are 65 or older.

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 under the Hochwasserrichtlinie 2026. The air figures come from the models of the European Environment Agency, public transport from the ÖROK classes 2025, parks and shops from OpenStreetMap and the city's directories, and the residents from Statistik Austria. The data is from 12 October 2026.

The city figures count every address, and the rankings keep the neighbourhoods with at least 60 addresses. The noise figure gives the loudest facade, so a flat facing a courtyard can lie in a quieter band. The method explains each part of LAGE.