Last updated: November 2026
A neighbourhood (Grätzl) in Vienna's 14th district. Strongest on Air quality and Safety, while Quiet is more of a trade-off.
In short: Penzing Dorf, a neighbourhood in Penzing (14th district), has a Living Score of 87 out of 100 (Vienna Living Map, as of November 2026). Strongest: Air quality 9.0 and Safety 8.8 out of 10, weakest Quiet 7.2. District asking rent: about €18/m² (median, carried forward).
In the old village core of Penzing you can feel the ground under your feet — a calm, down-to-earth rhythm. Cafés and small restaurants are close by, and life moves at an easy pace. It rarely gets truly busy.
Gründerzeit apartment houses shape the streetscape.
The six dimensions
Light & built form
Penzing Dorf is low and openly built — plenty of free sky above the rooftops. Measured at the Grätzl centre: about 14.9 hours of direct sun on the longest day, about 5.8 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 Penzing Dorf
Within 450 m of the centre, buildings carry around 11 hectares of roof that would be greenable by pitch — 58.5 % of the roof area there, calculated from the City of Vienna’s official roof model. On that area roughly 21,400 m³ of rain a year would stay up top instead of entering the sewer, by the model. The modelled heat index here is 54 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 Penzing Dorf
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).
U4 · Hietzing · 4 min S45 S50 · Penzing · 5 min U4 · Braunschweiggasse · 9 min S45 · Breitensee · 15 min
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Hietzing Zentrum Ober St. Veit Cottageviertel Unter St. Veit
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Nearby neighbourhoods
Baumgarten, 14th district Breitensee, 14th district Hütteldorf, 14th district
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What is it like to live in Penzing Dorf?
Penzing Dorf reaches a Living Score of 87 out of 100 (Very good place to live). It is strongest on Air quality (Excellent), followed by Safety; 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 Penzing Dorf?
Penzing Dorf is in Vienna's 14th district (Penzing), postal code 1140.
How safe is Penzing Dorf?
Safety in Penzing Dorf: Excellent (8.8/10), based on official police crime statistics. A non-binding orientation value for the area, not a statement about any single address.
Is Penzing Dorf dangerous?
Short answer: no — Vienna consistently ranks among the safest large cities in the world, and that holds across all 23 districts. Penzing Dorf sits at 8.8 out of 10 on the safety dimension (Excellent). 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 Penzing Dorf?
Public transport in Penzing Dorf: Excellent (8.5/10) – based on proximity to metro, tram and bus (Wiener Linien).
Is Penzing Dorf noisy?
Quiet in Penzing Dorf: Good (7.2/10), based on traffic-noise exposure. Part of the area sits along Hadikgasse; 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). Traffic drops off at night, though it never fully disappears along the loud edge. The busiest named axes nearby, by official annual traffic volume: Hietzinger Hauptstraße (~29,900/day), Hadikgasse (~29,451/day), Schönbrunner Schloßstraße (~22,844/day).
How hot does Penzing Dorf get in summer?
In summer Penzing Dorf is rather warm — about the Vienna average. Heat index 54 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 Penzing Dorf?
Green space in Penzing Dorf: Excellent (8.5/10). Parks and greenery shape everyday life here.
Who is Penzing Dorf a good fit for?
Most of all for people who value clean air and a safe area. Less ideal if quiet is at the very top of your list — that's the trade-off here.
Is Penzing Dorf expensive?
Guide prices for Penzing Dorf: rent around €18.5/m², buying around €4,699/m² (rent: asking rent, carried forward; purchase: median of prices paid in 2025, Statistics Austria). Houses in the district sold for a median of around €5,686/m² of living space (2025). Value for money in the Living Score: Excellent.
How is the natural light in Penzing Dorf?
Penzing Dorf is low and openly built — plenty of free sky above the rooftops. Measured at the Grätzl centre: about 14.9 hours of direct sun on the longest day, about 5.8 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 Penzing Dorf?
In Penzing Dorf: Gründerzeit apartment houses shape the streetscape. Per the City of Vienna building typology, around 41% of the residential buildings here are Gründerzeit apartment houses (1848–1918). How a single flat is laid out still depends on the individual building.
How much roof area around Penzing Dorf could be greened?
Within 450 m of the centre of Penzing Dorf, around 11 hectares of roof are greenable by pitch — 58.5 % 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.