Austria
Republic of Austria
- Capital
- Vienna
- Region
- Central Europe
- Population, 2025
- 9.2 million
- Currency
- EUR
- Area
- 83,871 km²
Across Austria's 31 priced cities, one person needs about $2,631 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $3,524.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
68out of 100
- Purchasing power25%72
- Safety20%71
- Health care15%78
- Climate10%77
- Air quality10%91
- Connectivity10%55
- Cost10%16
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
- Livability rank among countries
- #20
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Cost of living index
84.7
New York = 100, rent excluded
Rent index
29.7
New York = 100
Purchasing power
153.1
New York = 100
One person
$2,631
A month, rent included
Net salary
$3,524
Average, a month after tax
Rent, one bedroom in the centre
$1,359
A month
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
GDP per person
$62,930
2025
Growth
+0.6%
2025
Unemployment
5.6%
2025
Inflation
3.5%
2025
Life expectancy
82.0 years
2024
Internet users
92%
2025
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 55%
- SourcePwC
- Lowest income tax rate
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 23%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 20%
- SourcePwC
- Capital gains, individuals
- 27.5%
- SourcePwC
- Social security, employee
- 18.1%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Social security, employer
- 21.0%
- SourceTrading Economics
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeo’s crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- 70.8
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 29.2
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2023
- 0.9
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #67 worldwide
- 107
- Mobile downloadMbps, median, #42 worldwide
- 113
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- −7%
Cities in Austria
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Graz | 69 | 82.9 | $838 | $3,240 | 177.8 | 303.3K | High confidence, 49 contributors |
| 2Vienna | 67 | 84.7 | $1,359 | $3,524 | 153.1 | 1.7M | High confidence, 243 contributors |
| 3Donaustadt | 66 | — | — | — | — | 187K | Low confidence |
| 4Floridsdorf | 66 | — | — | — | — | 162.8K | Low confidence |
| 5Favoriten | 66 | — | — | — | — | 201.9K | Low confidence |
| 6Ottakring | 66 | — | — | — | — | 104.6K | Low confidence |
| 7Simmering | 66 | — | — | — | — | 101.4K | Low confidence |
| 8Schwechat | 65 | 84.2 | $812 | $5,453 | 300.2 | 12.4K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 9Villach | 65 | 80.9 | $847 | $2,897 | 160.6 | 58.9K | High confidence, 26 contributors |
| 10Leoben | 63 | 77.5 | $504 | $2,736 | 187.5 | 8.3K | Medium confidence, 13 contributors |
| 11Salzburg | 63 | 87.1 | $1,471 | $3,363 | 138.3 | 157.2K | High confidence, 26 contributors |
| 12Sankt Poelten | 63 | 79.0 | $754 | $3,481 | 205.1 | 21.9K | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 13Amstetten | 63 | 80.9 | $608 | $3,042 | 190.6 | 15.6K | Medium confidence, 7 contributors |
| 14Linz | 63 | 82.4 | $841 | $2,928 | 161.0 | 204.8K | High confidence, 25 contributors |
| 15Klagenfurt | 63 | 80.4 | $893 | $2,784 | 151.4 | 100.3K | Medium confidence, 11 contributors |
| 16Wels | 63 | 81.0 | $689 | $3,206 | 192.3 | 16.9K | Medium confidence, 9 contributors |
| 17Innsbruck | 62 | 85.6 | $1,326 | $3,062 | 134.0 | 132.5K | High confidence, 24 contributors |
| 18Gmunden | 62 | 80.9 | — | $3,481 | 192.1 | 13.2K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 19Krems | 61 | 79.8 | $712 | $2,755 | 164.9 | 14.5K | Medium confidence, 6 contributors |
| 20Steyr | 61 | 76.7 | $746 | $2,565 | 154.5 | 38.3K | Medium confidence, 9 contributors |
| 21Saalfelden | 60 | 80.3 | — | $2,900 | 160.7 | 16.8K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 22Wiener Neustadt | 60 | 79.2 | $976 | $3,040 | 160.5 | 44.8K | Medium confidence, 15 contributors |
| 23Modling | 60 | 92.7 | $918 | $3,444 | 170.4 | 20.6K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 24Tulln an der Donau | 58 | 82.0 | $580 | $1,879 | 118.6 | 12.4K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 25Bregenz | 58 | 83.0 | $1,077 | $2,884 | 141.9 | 29.8K | Medium confidence, 15 contributors |
| 26Hainburg an der Donau | 58 | 85.3 | — | $2,450 | 131.0 | 6.6K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 27Kufstein | 58 | 76.4 | $1,224 | $2,819 | 135.9 | 9.8K | Medium confidence, 14 contributors |
| 28Feldkirch | 57 | 83.3 | $1,353 | $3,277 | 143.8 | 33.4K | Medium confidence, 9 contributors |
| 29Wolfsberg | 57 | 82.4 | $517 | $1,607 | 104.8 | 25K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 30Dornbirn | 57 | 81.2 | $1,263 | $2,946 | 135.7 | 49.3K | Medium confidence, 17 contributors |
| 31Kapfenberg | 56 | 81.5 | $603 | — | — | — | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 32Lienz | 56 | 82.9 | — | $1,952 | 106.2 | 11.6K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 33Braunau | 55 | 81.4 | $804 | — | — | — | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 34Goestling an der Ybbs | 55 | 80.9 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 35Baden | 55 | 82.4 | — | $1,722 | 94.0 | 26.3K | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 36Klosterneuburg | 54 | 80.2 | $928 | $1,696 | 90.9 | 15.6K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |