Eppendorf

Eppendorf is a neighbourhood (Stadtteil) in the district of Hamburg-Nord, between the Alster, Hoheluft and Groß Borstel. On 31 December 2025, 25,067 people were registered here on 2.7 km², according to the Statistikamt Nord's neighbourhood profiles.

The city portal calls it Hamburg's oldest village and one of its most popular neighbourhoods, with a lot of greenery, water and representative architecture, and a high urban quality of life. The headline of its portrait sums it up as "nicely rich and richly nice".

• Architecture: Wilhelmine-era upper-middle-class apartment buildings with bay windows, turrets and stucco, and Jugendstil and Gründerzeit façades; side streets have simpler red-brick buildings with smaller rental flats.
• Eppendorfer Landstraße: the main shopping street, with boutiques and small food shops, and the setting for a large street festival.
• UKE: the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf) is a major employer with more than 6,000 staff, known for transplant medicine.
• Cafés and culture: long-established cafés and the Alma Hoppes Lustspielhaus cabaret theatre.

Eppendorf is busy during the day but has no large nightlife strip.

• U-Bahn: Kellinghusenstraße is the main interchange, used by more than 15,000 passengers a day according to the city portal; the U1 and U3 both run through Eppendorf.
• Buses connect the UKE and the residential streets with the centre and neighbouring districts.
• Road: the Ring 2 ring road runs through the neighbourhood, and the portal notes congestion and a shortage of parking.

• Large period apartments in Wilhelmine-era buildings; many rental flats were converted into owner-occupied flats early on, which attracted well-off buyers.
• Smaller rental flats in red-brick buildings on side streets.

In 2025 the average flat measured 79 m² (Hamburg: 76 m²), and residents had 45.4 m² of living space per person (Hamburg: 38.8 m²). Social housing made up only 3.6% of flats in January 2026 (Hamburg: 7.6%). Listed prices for owner-occupied flats were about €8,000 per m² (Hamburg average €6,278).

At the end of 2025, 13.2% of households included children (Hamburg: 17.5%). Eppendorf had 13 day-care centres (Kitas, March 2026) and 3 primary schools (2025/26), according to the neighbourhood profiles.

Families use the Eppendorfer Park, with a playground and sledging slopes, Hayns Park on the Alster and the paddling routes on the Alster. The Eppendorfer Moor, a large inner-city moor, lies just across the border in Groß Borstel.