Last updated: September 2026
A neighbourhood (Grätzl) in Vienna's 13th district. Strongest on Air quality and Green space, while Quiet is more of a trade-off.
The quiet villa streets of Unter St. Veit feel right at home if you're after stillness and value being close to the Lainzer Tiergarten. Life here plays out on a smaller scale, and calm settles in early in the evening.
Social housing shapes the area — big courtyards, solid blocks.
The six dimensions
Light & built form
Unter St. Veit is low and openly built — plenty of free sky above the rooftops. The slope takes part of the low evening sun early. Measured at the Grätzl centre: about 14.2 hours of direct sun on the longest day, about 6.3 in December. Even the low winter sun gets through well here. 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 Unter St. Veit
Within 450 m of the centre, buildings carry around 8 hectares of roof that would be greenable by pitch — 40.5 % of the roof area there, calculated from the City of Vienna’s official roof model. On that area roughly 14,200 m³ of rain a year would stay up top instead of entering the sewer, by the model. The modelled heat index here is 56 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 →
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BaumgartenWilhelminenbergPenzing DorfHütteldorf
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Hietzing Zentrum, 13th districtOber St. Veit, 13th districtLainz, 13th districtAuhof, 13th district
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Frequently asked about Unter St. Veit
What is it like to live in Unter St. Veit?
Unter St. Veit reaches a Living Score of 93 out of 100 (Top place to live). It is strongest on Air quality (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 Unter St. Veit?
Unter St. Veit is in Vienna's 13th district (Hietzing), postal code 1130.
How safe is Unter St. Veit?
Safety in Unter St. Veit: Excellent (9.0/10), based on official police crime statistics. A non-binding orientation value for the area, not a statement about any single address.
Is Unter St. Veit dangerous?
Short answer: no — Vienna consistently ranks among the safest large cities in the world, and that holds across all 23 districts. Unter St. Veit sits at 9.0 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 Unter St. Veit?
Public transport in Unter St. Veit: Excellent (8.9/10) – based on proximity to metro, tram and bus (Wiener Linien).
Is Unter St. Veit noisy?
Quiet in Unter St. Veit: Average (5.9/10), 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). 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: Hadikgasse (~27,451/day), Hietzinger Kai (~15,889/day), Cumberlandstraße (~10,456/day).
How hot does Unter St. Veit get in summer?
In summer Unter St. Veit is rather warm — about the Vienna average. Heat index 56 of 100 (Vienna average 57), 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 Unter St. Veit?
Green space in Unter St. Veit: Excellent (9.2/10). Parks and greenery shape everyday life here.
Who is Unter St. Veit a good fit for?
Most of all for people who value clean air 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 Unter St. Veit expensive?
Guide prices for Unter St. Veit: rent around €22.5/m², buying around €9,200/m² (indexed orientation). Value for money in the Living Score: Good.
How is the natural light in Unter St. Veit?
Unter St. Veit is low and openly built — plenty of free sky above the rooftops. Measured at the Grätzl centre: about 14.2 hours of direct sun on the longest day, about 6.3 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 Unter St. Veit?
In Unter St. Veit: 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 Unter St. Veit could be greened?
Within 450 m of the centre of Unter St. Veit, around 8 hectares of roof are greenable by pitch — 40.5 % 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.