Global CityIntelligence

Poland / Central Europe

Kielce City Intelligence

Kielce is the capital of Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship in south-central Poland, with regional trade-fair and services activity, road and rail access toward Kraków and Warsaw, and seasonal heating-related air-quality context typical of the area. Kielce is a central europe city of about ~270K in Poland. On the composite city-intelligence score, Kielce sits around the indexed median (70/100).

Last updated
2026-05-16
Data year
2025
Population
~270K
View of Kielce, Poland

Image credit: Image: Jakub Hałun / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

Overall score

Use the Kielce profile to compare cost framing, transport access, and air-quality signals alongside Kraków, Lublin, and other Polish regional centres.

Overall70/100
Affordability79/100
Air quality64/100
Energy67/100

Overall city intelligence

Good

70/100

Composite directional score across affordability, air quality, clean energy, and resilience.

Data confidence

Directional

Directional indicators pending integration of verified city-level data.

Verified utility layers

See country hub

Emergency, healthcare, and transport verification status appears on the country hub.

Kielce data table

The table is part of the initial server-rendered HTML and mirrors the key city score cards.

Kielce city intelligence data table
MetricValueContext
Overall score70/100Composite score across major city intelligence modules.
Cost of Living79/100Kielce's cost-of-living profile is a directional indicator pending integration of verified city-level data; structured benchmark context applies.
Air Quality64/100Kielce's air-quality profile is a directional indicator framed against WHO and regional benchmarks; verified city-level measurements appear in the dedicated air-quality dataset section once integrated.
Energy67/100Kielce's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context.
Safety70/100Kielce's safety profile is a directional indicator; verified country-level emergency profiles attach via the country hub where available.
Internet Speed69/100Kielce's connectivity profile is a directional indicator combining national digital-readiness context with widely cited speed-test references.
Climate Risk69/100Kielce's climate-risk profile is a directional indicator combining regional hazard categories with national adaptation capacity.
Resilience69/100Climate adaptation and infrastructure continuity context.

Emergency and public safety in Kielce

Local public safety guidance for Kielce, with the country-level emergency contacts that apply when calling for police, fire, or ambulance.

Verified
Poland emergency contacts
ServiceNumberNotes
European emergency11224/7112 reaches police, fire, and ambulance dispatch across the European Union from any phone, free of charge.

For the universal emergency contacts that apply in Kielce, including police, fire, and ambulance, see the Poland emergency profile.

Public safety sources

Each emergency contact above is attributed to an official emergency service or government publisher. Confirm current numbers directly with these sources.

Last verified: 2026-05-16

Methodology and the wider source registry are documented on the scoring methodology and data sources pages.

Healthcare and hospitals in Kielce

Healthcare context for Kielce, with national-level information from Poland where city-specific data is not yet verified. This is informational only and does not provide medical advice.

Unverified

For the national healthcare and public-health context that applies in Kielce, see the Poland healthcare profile, which currently lists no verified national healthcare information.

Related sections: emergency and public safety, scoring methodology, and data sources.

Transport and mobility in Kielce

Local mobility context for Kielce, with national-level context from Poland where city-specific data is not yet verified. This is informational only.

Unverified

For national transport authorities and operators that apply in Kielce, see the Poland transport profile, which currently lists no verified national transport information.

Related sections: emergency and public safety, healthcare and hospitals, cities directory, countries directory, scoring methodology, data sources.

Air quality dataset

Source-attributed air-quality dataset for Kielce. Verified measurements are surfaced when published from accepted official datasets; transparent fallback is shown otherwise.

Air quality dataset for Kielce

Verified data unavailableLast updated 2026-05-16 / data year 2025

Verified air-quality measurements are not yet published for this location

Source-attributed values for Kielce will appear here after the platform integrates verified measurements from accepted official publishers. Until then, structured air-quality module context remains available on the dedicated module page.

Kielce air-quality dataset coverage
MetricValueData yearStatus
Air qualityVerified air-quality measurements are not yet published for this location.

Data provenance

Source attribution

  • Global City Intelligence — air-quality dataset

    Verified data unavailable
    Publisher
    Global City Intelligence
    Last verified
    2026-05-16

    The air-quality dataset begins empty by design. Verified city-level measurements appear here only after they are sourced from accepted publishers (WHO, EEA, US EPA, OpenAQ, OECD, or official national/city environmental agencies).

Explore Kielce modules

City pages link to module and ranking pages so crawlers can move through the topic cluster naturally.

Cost of Living in Kielce

Kielce's cost-of-living profile is a directional indicator pending integration of verified city-level data; structured benchmark context applies.

Air Quality in Kielce

Kielce's air-quality profile is a directional indicator framed against WHO and regional benchmarks; verified city-level measurements appear in the dedicated air-quality dataset section once integrated.

Energy in Kielce

Kielce's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context.

Safety in Kielce

Kielce's safety profile is a directional indicator; verified country-level emergency profiles attach via the country hub where available.

Internet Speed in Kielce

Kielce's connectivity profile is a directional indicator combining national digital-readiness context with widely cited speed-test references.

Climate Risk in Kielce

Kielce's climate-risk profile is a directional indicator combining regional hazard categories with national adaptation capacity.

City rankings

Compare this city against other indexed cities in crawlable ranking tables.

Cost of living in Kielce

Cost of living estimates for Kielce — monthly budgets, rent, food, and transport in the local currency, plus an affordability score for comparison. Planning estimates derived from country baselines, not live prices.

Visual guide to Kielce

Source-attributed visual context for Kielce using verified Wikimedia imagery from the existing media catalog, alongside structured city intelligence and planning links. Not a tourism guide or attractions ranking.

Weekend trip planning guide for Kielce

Weekend trip planning checklist for Kielce — links into arrival planning, Summer 2026 travel context, visual orientation, budget tools, transport, public safety, and healthcare context. Not an itinerary, events calendar, hotel-price guide, restaurant guide, or tourism ranking.

Nearby weekend places from Kielce

Source-backed nearby place records for local-first weekend planning, with verification status, official source links, Wikidata identity, and visual context.

Estimate a monthly budget for Kielce

Estimate a monthly budget for Kielce using your own housing, food, transport, healthcare, and lifestyle inputs. Planning estimator only — not an official cost-of-living measurement.

Plan a trip budget for Kielce

Plan a trip budget for Kielce using your own accommodation, food, local transport, activities, travel, healthcare buffer, and emergency buffer inputs. Planning estimator only — not an official travel cost estimate.

Nearby cities from Kielce

Where else nearby you could spend a day or a weekend from Kielce. Links are derived from geographic proximity, shared region, shared natural-recreation areas, transport corridors, and country borders — not popularity or tourism rankings.

Radom, Poland

Same region · about 70 km from Kielce. Explore Radom's city intelligence profile.

Tarnów, Poland

Same region · about 99 km from Kielce. Explore Tarnów's city intelligence profile.

Krakow, Poland

Same region · about 103 km from Kielce. Explore Krakow's city intelligence profile.

Częstochowa, Poland

Same region · about 106 km from Kielce. Explore Częstochowa's city intelligence profile.

Sosnowiec, Poland

Same region · about 121 km from Kielce. Explore Sosnowiec's city intelligence profile.

Łódź, Poland

Same region · about 127 km from Kielce. Explore Łódź's city intelligence profile.

Rzeszów, Poland

Mountain cluster · about 134 km from Kielce. Explore Rzeszów's city intelligence profile.

Bytom, Poland

Same region · about 134 km from Kielce. Explore Bytom's city intelligence profile.

Katowice, Poland

Same region · about 134 km from Kielce. Explore Katowice's city intelligence profile.

Related collections

Regional discovery collections that include Kielce — named natural regions grouping nearby nature, parks, lakes, coasts, and mountains for local-first day and weekend planning.

Themed collections

Theme-first discovery collections that include Kielce — grouped by outdoor interest (mountains, lakes, coasts, forests, national parks) rather than geography.

Interpretation

Use the Kielce profile to compare cost framing, transport access, and air-quality signals alongside Kraków, Lublin, and other Polish regional centres. Its standout dimensions are cost of living (79/100) and safety (70/100). The area most worth watching is air quality (64/100), where the model registers practical gaps. Data year 2025; last updated 2026-05-16. Drawn from 4 institutional references.

Country context is available on the Poland country page. Related rankings include Overall Intelligence, Quality of Life, Remote Work. See where Kielce appears in global rankings or read the scoring methodology.

Structured indicators on this page are directional and intended for orientation. Verified datasets are being integrated; official sources should be used for critical decisions.

Sources

4 institutional references inform this view, listed below with reliability notes. Structured indicators on this page are directional and intended for orientation; verified datasets are being integrated and official sources should be used for critical decisions.