Cost of Living inOttakring, Austria
Purchasing Power vs. United States
Based on GDP per capita (PPP). Austria: $63,788/capita.
How Far Your Money Goes
Prices are 29% lower than the global benchmark (New York City = 100).
Using the country-level NYC comparison for now. We do not have a defensible city-level aggregate cost index for this city yet.
Income Category
Happiness
6.9 / 10
#14 globally
GDP per Capita
City Population
Child Education
Public-school quality, expat access, instruction language, and homeschool legality for relocating families.
Public schools
Public-schooling rules are set nationally for Austria; Ottakring-specific enrollment notes are still being verified.
Quality
Excellent public schools
Assessment snapshot: 2022
Expat access
Resident families can use it
conditionalInstruction
German
Language fit is more manageable.
PISA / outcomes
491
Above OECD avg
PISA 2022 · OECD avg ~480
Why this quality rating
Austria has a strong public-school backbone, reliable teaching quality, and solid OECD outcomes.
Why the expat-access rating looks like this
Foreign resident families can usually enroll, but instruction is in German and local catchment rules still matter.
📋 Homeschooling
Legal with annual examsHomeschooling is legal in Austria. Parents must notify the school district before the school year. Students must pass an annual exam (Externistenprüfung) covering the Austrian curriculum. If the child fails, they must attend school.
Homeschool legality in Austria — check current regulations before committing.
Source: User-curated family relocation research (initial seed) (2026-04-14)
Childcare & Domestic Help
Estimate-only country fallback for the family-support costs we track in Austria.
Full-time nanny (5 days)
$2,100
Estimate-only country fallback
Live-in / 24-7 nanny
$4,200
Estimate-only country fallback
Source: curated family relocation research(derived country fallback)
Getting Around
Neighborhood mobility profiles are rolling out city by city.Ottakring is still missing a verified walkability, transit, airport, and rideshare profile.
Healthcare
System strength, outcome signals, facility coverage, and self-pay visibility in Austria.
Method: country metrics come from public system indicators, facility coverage reflects mapped providers we can inventory, direct pricing only reflects observed self-pay pages, and relative care cost can fall back to broad cost-of-living healthcare indices. Sparse pricing does not imply sparse healthcare availability.
Hospital and clinic listings for Ottakring are still being verified. The country-level health-system summary for Austria applies; named facilities and direct self-pay prices appear here only after they are source-backed.
Healthcare system
StrongGood national coverage, strong doctor availability, and deep nursing capacity support this rating.
Public care
StrongBroad public coverage, strong public funding, and relatively low patient cost-sharing support this rating.
Private care
LimitedThis is an inferred read based on facility depth, private ownership signals, and available self-pay pricing.
UHC coverage
84/100
2023
Physicians
5.51/1k
2023
Hospital beds
6.70/1k
2022
Out of pocket
16%
2024
Outcome signals
Life expectancy
82.0 yrs
2024
Maternal mortality
6/100k
2023
Neonatal mortality
2.2/1k
2024
International patient readiness
LimitedCountry-level outcomes are comparatively strong help, but price transparency is still sparse.
Pricing transparency
LimitedPublished self-pay prices are scarce weigh on this rating.
Facility coverage
Self-pay pricing visibility
No verified self-pay prices are published for the tracked facilities in Austria yet.
This usually reflects low online price transparency rather than a lack of healthcare providers.
System metrics: World Bank WDI · Updated 2026-06-01
Safety & Governance
Street Safety
Source: Numbeo where a city row is matched; otherwise World Bank WGI and country-level safety context.
Political Stability
World Bank WGI scale: -2.5 to +2.5.
Wages by Sector
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2024 annual wages in Ottakring, Austria · Source: OECD STAN, ILO ILOSTAT
Price Comparison vs. US
Visa Information (US passport)
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Structured from the deltas already shown on this page — no invented facts, no extra data sources.
How far does your money go in Ottakring compared with the US?
Your money goes about 1.1x further in Ottakring than in the US, based on the current PPP estimate. We are using the country-level cost index for Austria here because a defensible city-level aggregate index is not available yet.
Is Ottakring cheaper or more expensive overall than New York City?
Ottakring is cheaper overall than New York City — overall living costs are about 29% cheaper than the global benchmark (New York City) for Ottakring. We are using the country-level cost index for Austria here because a defensible city-level aggregate index is not available yet.
How does rent in Ottakring compare with New York City?
Rent in Ottakring is about 75% cheaper than the global benchmark (New York City). We are using the country-level cost index for Austria here because a defensible city-level aggregate index is not available yet.
How expensive are groceries and restaurants in Ottakring?
Groceries in Ottakring are about 27% cheaper than the global benchmark (New York City), and restaurant prices are about 29% cheaper than the same benchmark. We are using the country-level cost index for Austria here because a defensible city-level aggregate index is not available yet.
About Ottakring
Ottakring is the 16th district of Vienna, Austria, with about 104,627 residents, sitting on the western edge of the city where it meets the Vienna Woods. Historically a working-class district built around the Ottakringer Brauerei brewery (founded 1837 and still operating in the district), it has become one of the most demographically diverse parts of Vienna, with a large Turkish, Serbian, and Balkan-origin population concentrated around Brunnenmarkt, central Europe's largest open-air food market. German is the working language with high multilingual ambient use. The U3 metro line connects directly to central Vienna in about 15 minutes. Climate is humid continental with cold winters and warm summers. Relocation here is normal Vienna-resident inflow rather than expat-targeted, with rents below the inner districts.
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