St. Pölten has a median LAGE of 62, our score from 0 to 100 for a place to live, across its 14,748 addresses. The Rennbahnstraße area scores highest with 80, followed by the Wiener Straße area with 78, and the Pummersdorf area has the lowest median, 25. 14.8 % of addresses lie in the two best public transport classes, A or B, and 46.3 % have a supermarket within 500 m.
LAGE, a score from 0 to 100, sums up an address as a place to live: quiet, clean air, public transport, green space and errands on foot. Natural hazards such as floods lower it. We work it out for each address in St. Pölten with the same rules, from official open data. For the city and for each neighbourhood, we give the median, the score of the address in the middle once all of them are lined up. The neighbourhoods are the statistical areas of Statistik Austria, each named after a street inside it, and the comparison keeps the 46 with at least 60 addresses.
14,748 addresses. 46 neighbourhoods. A median LAGE of 62.
What is it like to live in St. Pölten?
The address in the middle of St. Pölten has a LAGE score of 62. Taken one by one, the city's medians of the parts are 86 for quiet, 69 for air, 65 for public transport, 61 for green space and 61 for errands on foot. The table gives each measure for the whole city, with the neighbourhood at each end.
| Measure | St. Pölten | Highest neighbourhood | Lowest neighbourhood |
|---|---|---|---|
| Addresses with road noise of 65 dB or more | 6.7 % | Mariazeller Straße / Josefstraße area49.5 % | 11 neighbourhoods at 0.0 % |
| Addresses in a 30- or 100-year flood area | 0.7 % | Roseggerstraße area26.2 % | 34 neighbourhoods at 0.0 % |
| Addresses in a mapped flood area (up to 300 years) | 2.8 % | Roseggerstraße area35.4 % | 30 neighbourhoods at 0.0 % |
| Addresses in public transport class A or B | 14.8 % | 2 neighbourhoods at 100.0 % | 18 neighbourhoods at 0.0 % |
| Addresses with a park within 300 m | 39.9 % | 6 neighbourhoods at 100.0 % | 8 neighbourhoods at 0.0 % |
| Nitrogen dioxide, median | 17.2 µg/m³ | Dr.Karl Renner-Promenade area24.4 µg/m³ | Wilhelmsburger Straße areaOchsenburg8.3 µg/m³ |
| Fine dust PM2.5, median | 11.0 µg/m³ | Altmanngasse areaUnterwagram13.8 µg/m³ | Wilhelmsburger Straße areaOchsenburg9.3 µg/m³ |
| Addresses with a supermarket within 500 m | 46.3 % | 12 neighbourhoods at 100.0 % | 7 neighbourhoods at 0.0 % |
| Addresses with a doctor within 500 m | 22.2 % | 5 neighbourhoods at 100.0 % | 21 neighbourhoods at 0.0 % |
| Addresses with a primary school within 500 m | 21.5 % | 2 neighbourhoods at 100.0 % | 20 neighbourhoods at 0.0 % |
| LAGE, median | 62 | Rennbahnstraße area80 | Pummersdorf areaPummersdorf25 |
| Median age of residents | 43 | Altmanngasse area52 | Kremser Landstraße area33 |
| Residents under 15 | 13.8 % | Robiniengasse area18.7 % | Roseggerstraße area7.8 % |
| Residents aged 65 or more | 20.4 % | Birkengasse / Munggenaststraße area31.1 % | Roseggerstraße area10.8 % |
The neighbourhood medians lie far apart, and the map of St. Pölten shows each one. The highest is more than three times as high as the lowest. In St. Pölten, the part of town makes a large difference to the score.
Which parts of St. Pölten score highest?
The Rennbahnstraße area has the highest LAGE median, 80, from 73 addresses. It scores 100 for errands on foot and 90 for public transport. The Wiener Straße area follows with 78 and the Altomontegasse area with 74, ahead of the Dr.Karl Renner-Promenade area with 73.
| Neighbourhood | LAGE, median | Quiet | Air | Transit | Green | Errands |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rennbahnstraße area | 80 | 79 | 70 | 90 | 65 | 100 |
| Wiener Straße area | 78 | 87 | 70 | 100 | 48 | 100 |
| Altomontegasse area | 74 | 86 | 70 | 90 | 51 | 91 |
| Dr.Karl Renner-Promenade area | 73 | 86 | 72 | 90 | 44 | 100 |
| Daniel Gran-Straße area | 72 | 80 | 70 | 90 | 35 | 97 |
| Ertlstraße area | 72 | 85 | 70 | 78 | 62 | 85 |
| Brunngasse area | 71 | 86 | 69 | 100 | 33 | 100 |
| Mühlweg areaViehofen | 71 | 86 | 70 | 78 | 45 | 89 |
| Austinstraße areaViehofen | 70 | 80 | 60 | 78 | 88 | 81 |
| Handel Mazzetti-Straße area | 70 | 86 | 62 | 65 | 73 | 78 |
| All of St. Pölten | 62 | 86 | 69 | 65 | 61 | 61 |
Three neighbourhoods share 70 at the end of the table, so the table shows two of them. The ten in the table score between 65 and 100 for public transport and between 78 and 100 for errands on foot. Their green part varies more, from 33 in the Brunngasse area to 88 in the Austinstraße area in Viehofen. The Austinstraße area is also the largest of the ten, with 589 addresses.
Where is the LAGE score lowest?
The Pummersdorf area has the lowest median, 25, from 91 addresses, and the Bahnstraße area in Pottenbrunn follows with 27. Both score 5 for public transport. For errands on foot, the Pummersdorf area scores 5 and the Bahnstraße area 0. Their green parts are high, at 83 and 92, and so is their air, at 75 and 78.
| Neighbourhood | LAGE, median | Quiet | Air | Transit | Green | Errands |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pummersdorf areaPummersdorf | 25 | 59 | 75 | 5 | 83 | 5 |
| Bahnstraße areaPottenbrunn | 27 | 74 | 78 | 5 | 92 | 0 |
| Wilhelmsburger Straße areaOchsenburg | 35 | 85 | 78 | 25 | 96 | 5 |
| Salcherstraße / Wilhelmsburger Straße areaAltmannsdorf | 38 | 35 | 72 | 65 | 95 | 3 |
| Walter Trebsche-Gasse areaWaitzendorf | 48 | 85 | 69 | 50 | 73 | 19 |
| Mariazeller Straße / Josefstraße area | 48 | 39 | 58 | 78 | 32 | 99 |
| Radlberger Hauptstraße areaUnterradlberg | 50 | 79 | 73 | 65 | 95 | 16 |
| Georg Sigl-Straße areaHart | 53 | 86 | 69 | 50 | 63 | 30 |
| Anzengruberstraße areaUnterwagram | 55 | 87 | 68 | 65 | 44 | 32 |
| Salcherstraße / Harlander Straße areaHarland | 56 | 85 | 70 | 65 | 91 | 24 |
| All of St. Pölten | 62 | 86 | 69 | 65 | 61 | 61 |
LAGE uses a geometric mean, so one weak part weighs more than in a plain average. A long way to the next shop and the next stop pulls the whole score down, however green the area is. Nine of the ten lowest neighbourhoods score 32 or less for errands on foot. The Mariazeller Straße / Josefstraße area, with a LAGE median of 48, stands apart. It scores 99 for errands on foot and 39 for quiet.
How good is public transport in St. Pölten?
In St. Pölten, 14.8 % of addresses, 2,179 in all, lie in public transport class A or B, the two best classes of the ÖROK scale. The Brunngasse area shares the top with one other neighbourhood, with 100 % of its addresses in these classes. At the other end, 18 neighbourhoods share 0 %, the Wilhelmsburger Straße area in Ochsenburg among them. The median transit part of the city is 65.
How far is it to the supermarket and the doctor?
46.3 % of addresses (6,825) have a supermarket within 500 m as the crow flies, 22.2 % (3,278) a doctor and 21.5 % (3,167) a primary school. The Brunngasse area is one of the 12 neighbourhoods where every address has a supermarket within 500 m, and one of the 5 where every address has a doctor that close. For the supermarket, 7 neighbourhoods share 0 %, among them the Walter Trebsche-Gasse area in Waitzendorf. For the doctor, 21 neighbourhoods share 0 %.
Where is road traffic loudest?
Road traffic is loudest in the Mariazeller Straße / Josefstraße area, where 49.5 % of addresses have road noise of 65 dB or more at the facade. Across the city the share is 6.7 % (987 addresses). At the other end, 11 neighbourhoods share 0 %, the Wiener Straße area among them. Quiet, partly estimated for side streets, is the strongest LAGE part in St. Pölten, with a median of 86.
Where in St. Pölten do addresses lie in a flood area?
The Roseggerstraße area has the highest shares, with 35.4 % of its addresses in a mapped flood area for floods up to once in 300 years and 26.2 % in a 30- or 100-year flood area. Across the city, the shares are 2.8 % (412 addresses) and 0.7 % (110). At the other end, 30 neighbourhoods share 0 % for all mapped flood areas, and 34 share 0 % for the 30- or 100-year area.
How green is St. Pölten, and how clean is its air?
39.9 % of addresses (5,884) have a park within 300 m. 6 neighbourhoods share 100 %, the Birkengasse / Steinfeldstraße area in Spratzern among them, and 8 share 0 %. The air model gives nitrogen dioxide a city median of 17.2 µg/m³, and the neighbourhood medians run from 24.4 in the Dr.Karl Renner-Promenade area to 8.3 in the Wilhelmsburger Straße area in Ochsenburg. Fine dust PM2.5 has a city median of 11.0 µg/m³, with the highest neighbourhood median, 13.8, in the Altmanngasse area. For both, a lower figure means cleaner air.
Who lives in St. Pölten?
The median age of the residents is 43. 13.8 % are under 15, and 20.4 % are 65 or older. Across the 45 neighbourhoods with resident figures, the median age runs from 33 in the Kremser Landstraße area to 52 in the Altmanngasse area.
How we counted
An address is an entry in the Austrian address register of the BEV, and every figure except the residents' counts these addresses. The residents' figures come from Statistik Austria. Road noise comes from the strategic noise maps of 2022, a model, and for side streets the quiet part is an estimate. The flood areas come from the flood risk zones of the BMLUK, public transport from the ÖROK classes of 2025, the air from models of the European Environment Agency, and parks, shops, doctors and schools from OpenStreetMap and the city's own directories. Distances are as the crow flies. Only parks count as parks, and forests stay apart. The data is from 12 October 2026.
Your own LAGE
The standard LAGE weighs its five parts equally. If the bus stop matters more to you than the park, set your own priorities, and the map of St. Pölten colours every neighbourhood by your own LAGE. The method page gives the rule for each part.