Living in Neubau, Vienna's 7th district, in figures

Neubau, Vienna's 7th district, has a median LAGE of 50, our score from 0 to 100 for a place to live, against 65 for Vienna, and this median is the lowest of the 23 districts. Road noise reaches 65 dB or more at 63.5 % of its 1,733 addresses, the largest share of the 23 districts, against 23.6 % for Vienna. Every address has public transport class A or B and a supermarket and a doctor within 500 m.

For each address in Neubau, Vienna's 7th 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.

1,733 addresses. 33 neighbourhoods with at least 30 addresses. Rank 23 of 23 districts for LAGE.

What is it like to live in Neubau?

The middle address in Neubau, Vienna's 7th district, has a LAGE of 50, the lowest median of the 23 districts, against 65 for Vienna. The five parts of its LAGE show two strengths and two weaknesses. The district's part medians are 100 for transit and 100 for errands, 44 for green, 32 for quiet and 20 for air. LAGE is a geometric mean of the five parts, so the two weak parts pull the score down further than in a plain average. The story on the best districts of Vienna to live in ranks all 23 districts by LAGE. 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 loud addresses (65 dB or more), nitrogen dioxide, fine dust, flood areas and the distance to a park, the highest figure is the weaker end, so 1st for loud addresses means the largest share of all districts. Neubau shares 1st place for public transport, a supermarket and a doctor within 500 m with other districts, and it holds 1st place alone for a primary school within 500 m.

How loud is Neubau?

Neubau has the largest share of loud addresses in Vienna. Road noise reaches 65 dB or more at 1,100 of its 1,733 addresses, 63.5 %, against 23.6 % for the whole city. Alsergrund follows with 54.2 % and Brigittenau with 54.0 %. At the quiet end, 44 addresses, 2.5 %, have road noise below 55 dB, against 25.1 % for Vienna, and the district ranks 17th of 23 on that share. The noise figure belongs to the loudest facade of each address, so a flat facing a courtyard can lie in a quieter band. The quiet part has a median of 32.

At the other end of the table, Donaustadt has the smallest share, 9.7 %, and Hietzing the next smallest, 11.7 %. The story on the quietest districts of Vienna ranks the same 23 districts from the quiet end.

How clean is the air in Neubau?

Neubau has the 3rd highest nitrogen dioxide median of the 23 districts, 32.5 µg/m³ against 25.8 µg/m³ for Vienna. Fine dust sits close to the city figure, with PM2.5 at 11.2 µg/m³ against 11.3 µg/m³. Neubau shares this figure with three other districts, and the table gives it 15th place of the 23. Both air figures come from the air models of the European Environment Agency, and a lower value means cleaner air. The air part has a median of 20.

How good is public transport in Neubau?

All 1,733 addresses of Neubau lie in public transport class A or B, against 68.8 % for Vienna. Six districts share this figure of 100 %. 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 has a median of 100.

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

Every address in Neubau has a supermarket within 500 m and a doctor within 500 m, against 73.8 % and 66.4 % for Vienna. Nine districts share the 100 % for the supermarket and eight for the doctor. A primary school lies within 500 m of 1,730 addresses, 99.8 %, the highest share of the 23 districts, against 59.2 % for the city. All distances are as the crow flies. The errands part has a median of 100.

How green is Neubau?

A park lies within 300 m of 66.5 % of the addresses, 1,152 of them, close to the 66.4 % for Vienna, and the district ranks 17th on this share. The median distance to the nearest park is 238 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 44.

Is there a flood risk in Neubau?

Every address in Neubau lies outside the mapped flood areas, for the 30-, 100- and 300-year floods alike. For Vienna, 0.5 % of the addresses lie in a 30- or 100-year flood area and 0.6 % in a mapped flood area up to 300 years. Neubau is one of 10 districts with every address outside the mapped flood areas. Flood areas therefore leave its LAGE untouched.

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

The number of residents in Neubau grew by 4.2 % from 2008 to 2025, against 21.4 % for Vienna, and the district ranks 20th of 23 on growth. Of the residents, 10.0 % are under 15, against 14.3 % for the city. 16.6 % 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 Neubau score highest?

The Bandgasse area has the highest LAGE of the district, 64, across 67 addresses. It reaches 67 for quiet and 47 for air, and both stand well above the district medians. The Richtergasse area follows with 60. Its quiet part of 87 is the highest in the table, a figure three other neighbourhoods of the table share, and its air part stands at 20. Two neighbourhoods share the next figure, 59, the Zieglergasse / Bandgasse area and the Zollergasse area.

Every one of the 33 neighbourhoods reaches 90 or 100 for transit and 100 for errands. The larger differences between them come from the quiet, the air and the green. The Gutenberggasse area, the largest neighbourhood with 130 addresses, sits near the middle with 52, a figure two other neighbourhoods share. The map of Vienna shows every neighbourhood of Neubau with its LAGE.

Where is LAGE lowest in Neubau?

The Lerchenfelder Gürtel area has the lowest LAGE of the district, 27, across 49 addresses. Its quiet part stands at 5 and its air part at 0, while transit and errands reach 100 and green 52. The Neubaugürtel / Wimbergergasse area follows with 32. Two neighbourhoods share the next figure, 33, the Kaiserstraße / Seidengasse area and the Kenyongasse area. All four have a quiet part of 5.

The ten lowest neighbourhoods all have a quiet part of 17 or less. Seven of them have a higher green part than any neighbourhood of the top ten, up to 56. Quiet and air decide the order of the neighbourhoods in Neubau.

How does Neubau score with your own priorities?

The standard LAGE weighs its five parts equally. If transit and errands matter 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 Neubau, and the neighbourhood table keeps the 33 neighbourhoods with at least 30 addresses. The method explains each part of LAGE.