Global CityIntelligence

Austria / Central Europe

Linz City Intelligence

Linz is the capital of Upper Austria and the country's third-largest city, with a Danube river-port and steel/chemical industrial base, a public hospital and university network, and rail and autobahn connections linking it to Vienna and Salzburg. Linz is a central europe city of about ~270K metro in Austria. On the composite city-intelligence score, Linz sits around the indexed median (71/100).

Last updated
2026-05-16
Data year
2025
Population
~270K metro
View of Linz, Austria

Image credit: Image: Kani / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Overall score

Use the Linz profile to compare affordability, air quality, energy, and resilience dimensions alongside regional peers such as Vienna, Salzburg, and Graz.

Overall71/100
Affordability58/100
Air quality66/100
Energy78/100

Overall city intelligence

Good

71/100

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.

Linz data table

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

Linz city intelligence data table
MetricValueContext
Overall score71/100Composite score across major city intelligence modules.
Cost of Living58/100Linz's cost-of-living profile is a directional indicator pending integration of verified city-level data; structured benchmark context applies.
Air Quality66/100Linz'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.
Energy78/100Linz's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context.
Safety76/100Linz's safety profile is a directional indicator; verified country-level emergency profiles attach via the country hub where available.
Internet Speed75/100Linz's connectivity profile is a directional indicator combining national digital-readiness context with widely cited speed-test references.
Climate Risk80/100Linz's climate-risk profile is a directional indicator combining regional hazard categories with national adaptation capacity.
Resilience80/100Climate adaptation and infrastructure continuity context.

Emergency and public safety in Linz

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

Verified
Austria emergency contacts
ServiceNumberNotes
European emergency11224/7112 reaches police, fire, and ambulance dispatch across the European Union from any phone, free of charge.
Police13324/7—
Ambulance14424/7—
Fire12224/7—

For the universal emergency contacts that apply in Linz, including police, fire, and ambulance, see the Austria 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 Linz

Healthcare context for Linz, with national-level information from Austria 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 Linz, see the Austria 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 Linz

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

Unverified

For national transport authorities and operators that apply in Linz, see the Austria 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 Linz. Verified measurements are surfaced when published from accepted official datasets; transparent fallback is shown otherwise.

Air quality dataset for Linz

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 Linz 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.

Linz 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 Linz modules

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

Cost of Living in Linz

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

Air Quality in Linz

Linz'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 Linz

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

Safety in Linz

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

Internet Speed in Linz

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

Climate Risk in Linz

Linz'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 Linz

Cost of living estimates for Linz — 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 Linz

Source-attributed visual context for Linz 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 Linz

Weekend trip planning checklist for Linz — 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 Linz

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 Linz

Estimate a monthly budget for Linz 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 Linz

Plan a trip budget for Linz 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 Linz

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

Passau, Germany

Cross-border · about 68 km from Linz. Explore Passau's city intelligence profile.

Sankt Pölten, Austria

Same region · about 99 km from Linz. Explore Sankt Pölten's city intelligence profile.

Salzburg, Austria

Mountain cluster · about 108 km from Linz. Explore Salzburg's city intelligence profile.

Vienna, Austria

Same region · about 151 km from Linz. Explore Vienna's city intelligence profile.

Jihlava, Czechia

Cross-border · about 155 km from Linz. Explore Jihlava's city intelligence profile.

Graz, Austria

Mountain cluster · about 162 km from Linz. Explore Graz's city intelligence profile.

Plzeň, Czechia

Cross-border · about 173 km from Linz. Explore Plzeň's city intelligence profile.

Related collections

Regional discovery collections that include Linz — 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 Linz — grouped by outdoor interest (mountains, lakes, coasts, forests, national parks) rather than geography.

Interpretation

Use the Linz profile to compare affordability, air quality, energy, and resilience dimensions alongside regional peers such as Vienna, Salzburg, and Graz. Its standout dimensions are climate risk (80/100) and energy (78/100). The area most worth watching is cost of living (58/100), 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 Austria country page. Related rankings include Overall Intelligence, Quality of Life, Remote Work. See where Linz 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.