Last updated: November 2026
A neighbourhood (Grätzl) in Vienna's 2nd district. Strongest on Public transport and Green space, while Quiet is more of a trade-off.
In short: Nordbahnviertel, a neighbourhood in Leopoldstadt (2nd district), has a Living Score of 80 out of 100 (Vienna Living Map, as of November 2026). Strongest: Public transport 8.5 and Green space 8.0 out of 10, weakest Quiet 6.5. District asking rent: about €21/m² (median, carried forward).
A new city district has grown on the old Nordbahnhof site — modern residential buildings around Rudolf-Bednar-Park, with the overgrown Freie Mitte in between. Much is new and well-thought-out; established corners and old facades are rare here.
Social housing shapes the area — big courtyards, solid blocks.
The six dimensions
Light & built form
Nordbahnviertel is densely and tall built — light falls narrow between the facades, and the lanes turn shady earlier in the day. Measured at the Grätzl centre: about 11.3 hours of direct sun on the longest day, about 5.2 in December. The evening sun stays long. How bright a single flat is comes down to floor, orientation and courtyard vs. street side — the measurement is for the Grätzl centre.
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The roofs above Nordbahnviertel
Within 450 m of the centre, buildings carry around 11 hectares of roof that would be greenable by pitch — 61.9 % of the roof area there, calculated from the City of Vienna’s official roof model. On that area roughly 20,700 m³ of rain a year would stay up top instead of entering the sewer, by the model. The modelled heat index here is 57 out of 100.
The radius is a fixed reference area, not a neighbourhood boundary, and the circles of adjacent neighbourhoods overlap — so these figures cannot be added up. Whether any of these roofs is already green is unknown to a geometry model; whether it carries the build-up is for a structural engineer to say. Geometry as of 2016. All districts compared →
Public transport around Nordbahnviertel
Metro and S-Bahn within walking distance of the centre of the neighbourhood — walking minutes estimated from the straight-line distance (× 1.3, 80 m a minute).
U1 · Vorgartenstraße · 6 min U1 U2 R1 REX1 REX2 REX3 REX92 S1 S2 S3 S4 S7 S80 · Praterstern · 13 min U1 · Donauinsel · 17 min U2 · Messe-Prater · 18 min
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Living in special places
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Nearby neighbourhoods
Stuwerviertel, 2nd district Praterstern, 2nd district Karmeliterviertel, 2nd district Augarten, 2nd district Prater / Lusthaus, 2nd district
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What is it like to live in Nordbahnviertel?
Nordbahnviertel reaches a Living Score of 80 out of 100 (Very good place to live). It is strongest on Public transport (Excellent), followed by Green space; Quiet is more of a trade-off. The score combines six dimensions from open data (City of Vienna OGD, OpenStreetMap, Wiener Linien, Statistics Austria).
Where is Nordbahnviertel?
Nordbahnviertel is in Vienna's 2nd district (Leopoldstadt), postal code 1020.
How safe is Nordbahnviertel?
Safety in Nordbahnviertel: Good (7.5/10), based on official police crime statistics. A non-binding orientation value for the area, not a statement about any single address.
Is Nordbahnviertel dangerous?
Short answer: no — Vienna consistently ranks among the safest large cities in the world, and that holds across all 23 districts. Nordbahnviertel sits at 7.5 out of 10 on the safety dimension (Good). One thing worth knowing when reading such figures: crime statistics count offences where they HAPPEN, not where those affected live. Districts with major stations, nightlife and many visitors therefore collect more reports without a residential street a few corners away being any different. Within a district, the gap between a busy hub and a quiet side street is usually larger than the gap between two districts.
How good is public transport in Nordbahnviertel?
Public transport in Nordbahnviertel: Excellent (8.5/10) – based on proximity to metro, tram and bus (Wiener Linien).
Is Nordbahnviertel noisy?
Quiet in Nordbahnviertel: Good (6.5/10), based on traffic-noise exposure. Part of the area sits along Reichsbrücke; a few streets further in it gets noticeably quieter. Right there you raise your voice to talk, and a phone call on the pavement gets tiring (calculated above 70 dB by day). At night it calms down noticeably — the level drops below the threshold at which mapping begins. The busiest named axes nearby, by official annual traffic volume: Lassallestraße (~31,814/day), Reichsbrücke (~31,525/day), Vorgartenstraße (~11,803/day).
How hot does Nordbahnviertel get in summer?
In summer Nordbahnviertel is rather warm — about the Vienna average. Heat index 57 of 100 (Vienna average 56), modelled. Dense, enclosed building form stores the day's heat and releases it slowly at night; there is little green to cool it. This is a MODELLED index (from building form, density, green space, street trees, water and elevation, checked against the City of Vienna's climate analysis map), not a measured temperature and not a count of hot days. Within one area it varies a lot: a green courtyard and a treeless street a few metres apart are not the same place.
How green is Nordbahnviertel?
Green space in Nordbahnviertel: Excellent (8.0/10). Parks and greenery shape everyday life here.
Who is Nordbahnviertel a good fit for?
Most of all for people who value short trips by public transport and lots of greenery at the doorstep. Less ideal if quiet is at the very top of your list — that's the trade-off here.
Is Nordbahnviertel expensive?
Guide prices for Nordbahnviertel: rent around €20.6/m², buying around €5,878/m² (rent: asking rent, carried forward; purchase: median of prices paid in 2025, Statistics Austria). Value for money in the Living Score: Excellent.
How is the natural light in Nordbahnviertel?
Nordbahnviertel is densely and tall built — light falls narrow between the facades, and the lanes turn shady earlier in the day. Measured at the Grätzl centre: about 11.3 hours of direct sun on the longest day, about 5.2 in December. How bright a single flat is comes down to floor, orientation and courtyard vs. street side — the measurement is for the Grätzl centre.
What kind of buildings shape Nordbahnviertel?
In Nordbahnviertel: Social housing shapes the area — big courtyards, solid blocks. (City of Vienna building typology.) How a single flat is laid out still depends on the individual building.
How much roof area around Nordbahnviertel could be greened?
Within 450 m of the centre of Nordbahnviertel, around 11 hectares of roof are greenable by pitch — 61.9 % of the roof area there. The figure comes from the City of Vienna’s Generalised Roof Model LOD2.1: for every roof face the official area and the official pitch are read and sorted by the thresholds of the City’s green-roof potential cadastre (up to 5° intensive and extensive, up to 20° extensive, minimum 5 m²). It says nothing about which of those roofs is already green, and nothing about statics.