Around Vienna, the median trip by public transport from the door to Stephansplatz takes 91 minutes. Up to 15 km from the city border the median is 65 minutes, beyond 30 km it is 122 minutes, and the median drive takes 40 minutes on empty roads. In the 352 towns, 34.4 % of the working residents work in Vienna. The district of Mödling has the shortest median trip, 60 minutes, and LAGE, a score from 0 to 100, has a median of 62.
For each of the 501,916 addresses around Vienna, we time the trip by public transport from the door to Stephansplatz and the drive by car, and look up the stops nearby, the shops, doctors and schools within 2 km, the noise of the major roads, the air and the flood areas. Around Vienna covers the 352 towns of Lower Austria and Burgenland in the EU functional urban area of Vienna, drawn from the towns where at least 15 % of the working residents commuted to Vienna. LAGE, a score from 0 to 100, sums up each address in five parts. We rank the towns with at least 60 addresses and compare the 19 political districts.
501,916 addresses. 352 towns, 351 of them ranked. 19 political districts.
What is it like to live around Vienna?
The middle address around Vienna has a LAGE of 62, and about three in four addresses have a supermarket within 2 km. Public transport class A or B reaches 5.9 % of the addresses, and road noise of 65 dB or more reaches 2.2 %, at the mapped major roads. Among the residents, 14.3 % are under 15 and 22.0 % are 65 or older. The table gives each measure for the whole area, with the town at each end, and the map Around Vienna shows each of its 1,237 neighbourhoods.
| Measure | Around Vienna | Highest town | Lowest town |
|---|---|---|---|
| Addresses with road noise of 65 dB or more | 2.2 % | Wiener NeudorfMödling33.7 % | 226 towns at 0.0 % |
| Addresses in a 30- or 100-year flood area | 3.8 % | LichtenwörthWiener Neustadt-Land42.2 % | 148 towns at 0.0 % |
| Addresses in a mapped flood area (up to 300 years) | 8.2 % | KorneuburgKorneuburg87.7 % | 119 towns at 0.0 % |
| Addresses in public transport class A or B | 5.9 % | MödlingMödling41.2 % | 228 towns at 0.0 % |
| Nitrogen dioxide, median | 11.4 µg/m³ | Brunn am GebirgeMödling22.6 µg/m³ | SchrattenbachNeunkirchen4.0 µg/m³ |
| Fine dust PM2.5, median | 10.9 µg/m³ | PamaNeusiedl am See13.3 µg/m³ | SchrattenbachNeunkirchen6.5 µg/m³ |
| LAGE, median | 62 | GießhüblMödling78 | HardeggHollabrunn30 |
| Minutes to Stephansplatz by public transport, median | 91 min | Hohenwarth-Mühlbach a.M.Hollabrunn345 min | LeopoldsdorfBruck an der Leitha38 min |
| Addresses within 60 minutes of Stephansplatz by public transport | 14.6 % | 4 towns at 100.0 % | 288 towns at 0.0 % |
| Minutes by car to Stephansplatz without traffic, median | 40 min | HardeggHollabrunn78 min | LangenzersdorfKorneuburg19 min |
| Addresses with a supermarket within 2 km | 74.4 % | 47 towns at 100.0 % | 55 towns at 0.0 % |
| Addresses with a doctor within 2 km | 67.0 % | 39 towns at 100.0 % | 76 towns at 0.0 % |
| Addresses with a primary school within 2 km | 63.8 % | 36 towns at 100.0 % | 76 towns at 0.0 % |
| Working residents who work in Vienna | 34.4 % | Gerasdorf bei WienKorneuburg67.1 % | KrensdorfMattersburg11.8 % |
| Residents under 15 | 14.3 % | KittseeNeusiedl am See20.5 % | TadtenNeusiedl am See9.5 % |
| Residents aged 65 or more | 22.0 % | TadtenNeusiedl am See33.7 % | Mitterndorf an der FischaBaden12.8 % |
Gießhübl in the district of Mödling has the highest LAGE of all ranked towns, 78, and Hardegg in the district of Hollabrunn the lowest, 30. Hardegg also has the longest median drive to Stephansplatz, 78 minutes on empty roads. With the distance from Vienna, the LAGE median falls ring by ring. Up to 15 km from the city border it is 68, from 15 to 30 km it is 63, and beyond 30 km it is 56.
How many residents work in Vienna?
Of the 580,492 working residents around Vienna, 199,679 work in Vienna, 34.4 %. Gerasdorf bei Wien in the district of Korneuburg has the highest share, 67.1 %, and Krensdorf in the district of Mattersburg the lowest, 11.8 %. The figures count work in Vienna only. So a lower share says that fewer residents work in Vienna and leaves open where the others work.
How long is the trip into Vienna, by public transport and by car?
The median trip by public transport from the door to Stephansplatz takes 91 minutes. Each address carries the average over leaving at any minute from 6:30 to 8:30 on a regular Tuesday, with the walk to the stop, the wait, the rides, the changes and the walk at the end. 496,045 addresses have a time. The other addresses lack a trip before 4 pm and stay out of the figure.
The time grows with the distance. Up to 15 km from Vienna's city border the median is 65 minutes, across 184,600 addresses. At 15 to 30 km it is 95 minutes, and beyond 30 km it is 122 minutes. 14.6 % of the addresses with a time, 72,292, lie within 60 minutes. By car on empty roads the median is 40 minutes, less than half the time by public transport. The town medians run from 19 minutes in Langenzersdorf to 78 in Hardegg.
| District | Minutes to Stephansplatz by public transport, median | Addresses |
|---|---|---|
| Horn | 179 min | 3,999 |
| Hollabrunn | 139 min | 29,136 |
| Lilienfeld | 138 min | 492 |
| Mistelbach | 134 min | 44,021 |
| Krems-Land | 120 min | 3,357 |
| Mattersburg | 119 min | 20,157 |
| Neusiedl am See | 114 min | 30,728 |
| Eisenstadt-Umgebung | 112 min | 23,098 |
| Eisenstadt | 106 min | 4,518 |
| Neunkirchen | 104 min | 10,621 |
| Wiener Neustadt-Land | 93 min | 24,076 |
| Gänserndorf | 88 min | 51,509 |
| Bruck an der Leitha | 81 min | 39,041 |
| Baden | 79 min | 48,168 |
| Wiener Neustadt | 78 min | 12,327 |
| St. Pölten-Land | 77 min | 25,844 |
| Tulln | 74 min | 50,810 |
| Korneuburg | 69 min | 39,756 |
| Mödling | 60 min | 34,387 |
| Around Vienna as a whole | 91 min | 496,045 |
By political district, the district of Mödling has the shortest median, 60 minutes across 34,387 addresses, followed by the district of Korneuburg at 69 and the district of Tulln at 74. The longest medians are 139 minutes in the district of Hollabrunn and 179 in the part of the district of Horn around Vienna, with 3,999 addresses. Wiener Neustadt and Eisenstadt are statutory cities and districts of their own, beside the districts of Wiener Neustadt-Land and Eisenstadt-Umgebung.
Among the towns, Leopoldsdorf in the district of Bruck an der Leitha has the shortest median, 38 minutes. In four towns, Hennersdorf in the district of Mödling among them, every address with a time lies within 60 minutes, and in 288 towns every such address lies beyond 60 minutes. The longest median belongs to Hohenwarth-Mühlbach a.M. in the district of Hollabrunn, 345 minutes. Where the last morning bus leaves before 8:30, the wait for the next trip counts. Such a figure describes a morning with few trips.
How good is public transport at the door?
Around Vienna, 5.9 % of the addresses, 29,696, lie in public transport class A or B. The ÖROK classes rate public transport by the stops within walking distance and how often they are served, from A down to G. The town of Mödling has the highest share, 41.2 %, and in 228 towns every address lies outside class A and B.
How far is it to the shops, the doctor and the school?
A supermarket lies within 2 km of 74.4 % of the addresses, a doctor of 67.0 % and a primary school of 63.8 %, all as the crow flies. In 47 towns every address has a supermarket within 2 km, and in 55 towns the nearest supermarket lies farther away for every address. The shops, doctors and schools come from OpenStreetMap, and a town at 0 % for a doctor or a school can mark a gap in the map.
Which political districts have the highest LAGE?
By political district, the LAGE median runs from 70 in the district of St. Pölten-Land and 69 in the district of Mödling to 51 in the district of Mistelbach, 49 in the district of Hollabrunn and 42 in the part of the district of Horn around Vienna.
| District | LAGE, median | Quiet | Air | Time to Vienna | Green | Errands |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Pölten-Land | 70 | 85 | 76 | 59 | 94 | 77 |
| Mödling | 69 | 85 | 66 | 75 | 68 | 97 |
| Baden | 68 | 86 | 71 | 62 | 73 | 97 |
| Bruck an der Leitha | 68 | 86 | 69 | 67 | 74 | 74 |
| Lilienfeld | 66 | 86 | 83 | 38 | 98 | 51 |
| Wiener Neustadt-Land | 65 | 86 | 72 | 48 | 80 | 78 |
| Korneuburg | 64 | 85 | 70 | 79 | 54 | 81 |
| Tulln | 64 | 85 | 71 | 61 | 73 | 76 |
| Wiener Neustadt | 63 | 86 | 69 | 47 | 47 | 95 |
| Gänserndorf | 62 | 85 | 70 | 56 | 60 | 69 |
| Neunkirchen | 62 | 85 | 77 | 35 | 84 | 74 |
| Eisenstadt-Umgebung | 60 | 86 | 70 | 45 | 55 | 73 |
| Eisenstadt | 58 | 86 | 67 | 45 | 37 | 95 |
| Krems-Land | 58 | 83 | 72 | 36 | 92 | 72 |
| Mattersburg | 58 | 86 | 74 | 35 | 61 | 72 |
| Neusiedl am See | 58 | 86 | 69 | 44 | 52 | 77 |
| Mistelbach | 51 | 85 | 72 | 42 | 44 | 55 |
| Hollabrunn | 49 | 80 | 72 | 38 | 52 | 53 |
| Horn | 42 | 74 | 74 | 27 | 50 | 28 |
| Around Vienna as a whole | 62 | 85 | 71 | 54 | 64 | 77 |
The table adds the median of each part. Quiet lies between 74 and 86 in every district, so the districts differ most in the time to Vienna, the errands and the green. The district of Korneuburg has the highest score for the time to Vienna, 79, and the district of Mödling follows at 75, with 97 for errands. The district of St. Pölten-Land reaches 94 for green, and the part of the district of Lilienfeld around Vienna 98, across 543 addresses. In the part of the district of Horn around Vienna, the time to Vienna, 27, and the errands, 28, are the lowest scores of all districts.
Your own LAGE
The standard LAGE weights its five parts equally. If the train to Vienna matters more to you than the green, set your own priorities, and the map Around Vienna colours each neighbourhood by your own LAGE.
How we counted
The address register of the BEV gives every address, and each address counts once, however many flats it has. The trips by public transport come from the timetables of the Mobilitätsverbünde Österreich, with the walks on the paths of OpenStreetMap. The drive counts empty roads, as open data leaves out the rush hour. The share working in Vienna comes from the commuter statistics of Statistik Austria as of 31 October 2024, and the residents' ages from its 100 m grid. Noise comes from the strategic noise maps 2022 of the BMLUK, which cover the major roads in Lower Austria and Burgenland, and the side streets carry an estimate. Flood areas come from the flood risk zones of the BMLUK, the air from the models of the European Environment Agency and the public transport classes from ÖROK, as of 2025. The data is from 23 October 2026.
Around Vienna, LAGE follows the village rule. Its time to Vienna takes the better of public transport and car, the drive × 1.5 plus 5 minutes to park, scored from 20 to 120 minutes, and errands count in full within 2 km and by half up to 4 km. So the LAGE around Vienna stands on its own, apart from the LAGE of the cities. The story Living in Vienna, in figures describes the city itself, and the method explains each part.