Alsergrund (9th district)

Alsergrund lies just north of the Innere Stadt. It had 41,631 residents on 1 January 2024 on 3.0 km², a density of 14,030 people per km² (Vienna: 4,656), and grew by 2.7% between 2014 and 2024.

The district is closely linked to education and medicine: many departments of the University of Vienna and the Vienna General Hospital (Allgemeines Krankenhaus, AKH), the city's largest hospital, are located here.

• Culture and history: the Volksoper opera house, the Liechtenstein Museum, and the Sigmund Freud Museum at Berggasse 19, where Freud lived and worked from 1891 to 1938. Franz Schubert was born in the district.
• Population: 64% Austrian citizens, 20% EU citizens and 16% other nationals on 1 January 2024; Germans were the largest foreign group (7.7% of residents). The average age was 41.
• Built environment: about 1,351 of the district's roughly 1,970 buildings date from before 1919, and green space and water make up 13% of its area.

• U6 along the Gürtel: Alser Straße, Michelbeuern–AKH, Währinger Straße–Volksoper, Nußdorfer Straße and Spittelau.
• U4 along the Danube Canal: Roßauer Lände, Friedensbrücke and Spittelau.
• U2 at Schottentor on the border with the 1st district.
• Trams and buses add further connections; check the WienMobil app.

In the 2021 census, 63% of residents lived in privately financed rentals, 12% in municipal housing, 12% in owner-occupied homes and 4% in cooperative flats.

Many flats are in pre-1919 buildings where the Tenancy Act usually applies fully, capping the basic rent with the Vienna reference value (€6.74 per m² from 1 April 2026, plus surcharges and deductions). There is no official rent figure for the district.

The city counts 26 parks in the district. Green space is limited compared with outer districts. Kindergarten places are allocated through the city's central registration; see our family guide.