This statistic shows the biggest cities in Austria in 2024. In 2024, approximately 2.01 million people lived in the administrative area of Vienna, making it the biggest city in Austria.

Austria AT: Population in Largest City: as % of Urban Population data was reported at 36.336 % in 2023. This records a decrease from the previous number of 36.582 % for 2022. Austria AT: Population in Largest City: as % of Urban Population data is updated yearly, averaging 33.076 % from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2023, with 64 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 36.889 % in 2014 and a record low of 30.956 % in 1981. Austria AT: Population in Largest City: as % of Urban Population data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Austria – Table AT.World Bank.WDI: Population and Urbanization Statistics. Population in largest city is the percentage of a country's urban population living in that country's largest metropolitan area.;United Nations, World Urbanization Prospects.;Weighted average;

In 2020, there were 207.3 thousand square meters of retail real estate in the City Center of Vienna, while Graz City Center had 175.4 thousand meters of retail space. Central city districts often concentrate a large share of the retail real estate in the city. It is important to note though, that retail real estate is developed not only in the central parts. For example, Meidlinger Hauptstraße, Favoritenstraße, Landstraßer Hauptstraße and Mariahiler Straße in Vienna are also areas strong retail real estate prensence.

Between 1500 and 1800, London grew to be the largest city in Western Europe, with its population growing almost 22 times larger in this period. London would eventually overtake Constantinople as Europe's largest in the 1700s, before becoming the largest city in the world (ahead of Beijing) in the early-1800s.

The most populous cities in this period were the capitals of European empires, with Paris, Amsterdam, and Vienna growing to become the largest cities, alongside the likes of Lisbon and Madrid in Iberia, and Naples or Venice in Italy. Many of northwestern Europe's largest cities in 1500 would eventually be overtaken by others not shown here, such as the port cities of Hamburg, Marseilles or Rotterdam, or more industrial cities such as Berlin, Birmingham, and Munich.

The Urban Atlas is providing pan-European comparable land use and land cover data for Large Urban Zones with more than 100.000 inhabitants as defined by the Urban Audit. Urban Atlas' mission is to provide high-resolution hotspot mapping of changes in urban spaces and indicators for users such as city governments, the European Environment Agency (EEA) and European Commission departments.

The European Passenger Rail transport industry has performed reasonably well over the past decade, except for during the years that were hit by COVID-19-induced disruption. Increased rail infrastructure investment has supported a climb in international and domestic passenger numbers; Eurostat data shows that demand for passenger transport in the EU steadily increased between 2015 and 2019, with passenger kilometres (pkm) peaking at 414 billion in 2019. Before the pandemic, mounting tourism, an ever-growing population and rising employment numbers fuelled an increase in the volume of rail passenger transport, particularly within and across major European cities. Over the five years through 2024, revenue is expected to drop at a compound annual rate of 6.1% to €95.3 billion. The COVID-19 outbreak and ensuing travel restrictions put a big dent in train companies’ steady expansion, with revenue plummeting by 17.0% over 2020 due to passenger rail running at sub-par capacity and many customers avoiding public transport at all costs. Similarly, international tourist levels plunged, exacerbated by stringent COVID-19 testing protocols. Industry growth has been modest over the subsequent three years and has remained below pre-pandemic levels, with many passengers still avoiding rail transport and the growing trend towards working from home cutting demand from commuters. Tourist and commuter numbers continue creeping back upwards, however, industry revenue is expected to decline 2.5% in 2024. Over the five years through 2029, revenue is forecast to expand at a compound annual rate of 4.0% to reach €115.7 billion. The European Commission’s commitment to boosting high-speed rail traffic will propel revenue growth, supported by new Harmonised EU standards and the net-zero agenda. Shifting passengers from road and air transport to rail transport will play an important role in helping the EU meet its climate targets in time. With one of the densest networks in the world, rail in the EU will be central to establishing a much more efficient and environmentally friendly transport system, aided by and accelerating digitalisation and the modernising of passenger rail infrastructure.

A table comparing the cost of living in various European Union countries, including expenses for rent, utilities, food, and transportation in major cities

This statistic illustrates the European cities in the DACH region (Germany, Austria and Switzerland), for their annual rental yields as of 2016. It can be seen that Berlin, in Germany, had the largest annual rental yield, with a return of 4.9 percent at that time. Frankfurt (Germany) and Linz (Austria) completed the top three, with annual rental yields of 4.1 percent and 3.4 percent respectively as of 2016.

Tourist arrivals in accommodation in Austria have been steadily rising. In 2019 they peaked at 41.3 million arrivals, including both domestic and foreign visitors. The number of nights spent by tourists also gradually increased

Tourism in Austria

Over half of all visitors arriving at accommodation in Austria are international tourists, with numbers rising each year. Austria is popular with both summer and winter tourists. It benefits from an Alpine landscape and culture-packed cities, making it a key destination for both skiing and city breaks. Austria borders several countries and subsequently most inbound visitors arrive from neighboring countries, including Germany and Italy.

Accommodation market in Austria

The accommodation market in Austria mixes both urban and rural lodgings. As with most European destinations, hotels still dominate as main type of accommodation present across Austria, although other holiday accommodation such as chalets and pensions are also popular options in the mountain towns. The capital city Vienna is also an important market for the European hotel industry.

Airborne laser scanning of the city of Vienna, which was organized by the survey department of the City Administration of Vienna (MA41). The data acquisition was performed in eight flight missions in November 2015.

After strip adjustment relative accuracy of the point cloud was in the order of 2cm. The absolute accuracy measured as RMSE is better than 5cm in planimetry and better than 4cm in elevation. The dataset was cleaned and does not involve obvious gross errors, e.g. points high up in the air or points far below ground level. The point density is measured as by last echoes per unit area and is more than 15 points/m² for 97% of the area. The average point density is 33 points/m².

The LiDAR dataset of the city is organized in a number of 1270m×1020m tiles (including a 10m overlap of all neighboring tiles).

Reference labels were generated semi-automatically: a rough filtering of main objects was firstly conducted by the software “Terrasolid”, and the final classification was refined by manual labelling. For the purpose of Vienna city administration, five classes are considered, namely ground, buildings, vegetation, others, water and bridges. All common street objects are categorized as others, such as (e.g.) streetlights, benches, shrubs, cars, construction sites and garbage bins. The different classes are defined by the following numeric integer codes: 2: Ground, 5: Vegetation, 6: Buildings, 8: Others, 9: Water and 17: Bridges.

The quality of the labelling was manually checked. In 20 sites of 100m×100m the classification was manually verified, and the average accuracy of reference labels is 95%.

Total 9 tiles are published, in which 4 tiles were used for the training and 5 tiles for the evaluation in the paper “A Comparison of Deep Learning Methods for Airborne LiDAR Point Clouds Classification”. Their locations in the city of Vienna can be found in the file of metadata, which also provides WGS84/GRS80 latitude and longitude coordinates of the extent corners of each tile (EPSG: 31256). This can be used to access images of the tiles from Google Maps or other public map service.

It is estimated that Europe had an urbanization rate of approximately 8.5 percent in the year 1800. The Netherlands and Belgium were some of the most heavily urbanized regions, due the growth of port cities such as Rotterdam and Antwerp during Netherlands' empirical expansion, and the legacy of urbanization in the region, which stems from its wool and craft industries in medieval times. Additionally, the decline of their agricultural sectors and smaller territories contributed to a lower rural population. Scotland and England had also become more urban throughout the British Empire's growth, although the agricultural revolution of the previous two centuries, along with the first industrial revolution, then led to more rapid urbanization during the 19th century. In contrast, there was a large imbalance between the east and west of the continent; the two largest empires, Austria and Russia, had the lowest levels of urbanization in Europe in 1800, due to their vast territories, lower maritime presence, and lack of industrial development.