Living in Gallneukirchen

In Gallneukirchen, unemployment is 3.5% (2024).

The foreign population count was 616 at the start of 2026. At the end of 2024, the unemployment rate was 3.5%. Its population was 6,747 at the start of 2025.

Last checked 2026-09-2424 sources

Population6,747people1 Jan 2025Official source · Archived AT round-01 G01 population evidence

Median gross salary (region)3,404EUR/month31 Dec 2024Official source · Brutto- und Nettojahreseinkommen der unselbständig Erwerbstätigen nach Bundesländern 2024

Average net rent6.9EUR/m²/month31 Dec 2025Regional figureOfficial source · Durchschnittliche Nettomiete und Betriebskosten von Hauptmietwohnungen nach Bundesland (Zeitreihe), Tabelle 3

Unemployment rate3.5%country median 4.8% — 26% belowOfficial source · Register-based Labour Market Statistics 2024 — Key Results, municipalities

Recorded crime2,215incidents per 100,00031 Dec 2023District figureOfficial source · Sicherheitsbericht 2023 – Kriminalität, Vorbeugung und Bekämpfung, Anhang; Kriminalitätsbericht 2023, district frequency tables

PM2.5, annual mean11µg/m³country median 10.0 — 10% aboveOfficial source · European Environment Agency

Lower unemployment than 81% of Austrian cities that publish it and dirtier air than 82% of Austrian cities that publish it.

Which Austria-wide rules apply when you move to Gallneukirchen?

National rules stay on the country page instead of being relabelled as city data.

Visa and entry rulesPassport-specific entry and national residence context.BenefitsCountry-wide eligibility and official application routes.Taxes in AustriaNational rates and thresholds that apply in Gallneukirchen.Healthcare eligibilityCountry-wide insurance and residence conditions.

Housing and cost

What recurs every month2 published recurring costs, € per month

€ / month

Internet, 60 Mbps€30

Mobile plan, 10 GB€10

Net rent across major citiesGallneukirchen highlighted among comparable cities

net rent, € / m² / month

Vienna€7.90

Innsbruck€7.58

Salzburg€6.92

Graz€6.33

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Internet, 60 Mbps unlimited	29.9 EUR/month	30 Sept 2026	A1 Internet 100¹Official · national market
Mobile plan, 10 GB	9.9 EUR/month	30 Apr 2026	bob Flex 100GB⁴Official · national market
Average net rent (nettokalt)	6.9 EUR/m²/month	31 Dec 2025	Durchschnittliche Nettomiete und Betriebskosten von Hauptmietwohnungen nach Bundesland (Zeitreihe), Tabelle 3⁶Official · regional context
Average monthly rent (whole dwelling)	461.4 EUR/month	31 Dec 2025	Durchschnittliche Nettomiete und Betriebskosten von Hauptmietwohnungen nach Bundesland (Zeitreihe), Tabelle 3⁶Official · regional context

Is Gallneukirchen a good place to live?

There is no universal answer. The profile scores below show who the available published evidence may suit; they are a decision aid, not a personal recommendation.

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Remote worker59%strong on work, weak on air quality · range 49–69%

Skilled employee65%strong on work, weak on education · range 55–75%

Student58%strong on cost, weak on education · range 46–70%

Family61%strong on family, weak on education · range 49–73%

Retirement50%strong on safety, weak on admin · range 38–62%

Work and income

What is the unemployment rate in Gallneukirchen?

The unemployment rate is 3.5 % (2024). Source: Register-based Labour Market Statistics 2024 — Key Results, municipalities¹³

Unemployment across cities in AustriaUnemployment in Gallneukirchen is 3.5%. Of 278 cities with data, 65 have unemployment of 4 to under 5%.

1–22–33–44–55–66–77–88–99–1010–1111–12

Gallneukirchen 3.5%

Unemployment rate (%)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Employment rate	77.2 %	31 Dec 2024	Statistik Austria¹⁵Official
Median gross salary (regional)	3,404 EUR/month	31 Dec 2024	Brutto- und Nettojahreseinkommen der unselbständig Erwerbstätigen nach Bundesländern 2024⁵Official · regional context
Unemployment rate	3.5 %country median 4.8%	31 Dec 2024	Register-based Labour Market Statistics 2024 — Key Results, municipalities¹³Official

What does a salary buy in Gallneukirchen?

Take-home pay after tax, minus rent and the everyday bills this city publishes. Each line names its source.

Left over each month€2,053of €2,507 take-home

Rent
Internet
Mobile
Left over

Line-by-line breakdown and sources

Each month	€
Take-home payOECD Taxing Wages 2025, single, no children. Includes central and local income tax and employee social contributions.	€2,507
Rent, 60 m²€6.90/m² · official · Durchschnittliche Nettomiete und Betriebskosten von Hauptmietwohnungen nach Bundesland (Zeitreihe), Tabelle 3 · 2025-12-31	− €414
Internet€30 · official · A1 Internet 100 · 2026-09-30	− €30
Mobile plan€10 · official · bob Flex 100GB · 2026-04-30	− €10
Other everyday billsnot published for this city: public transport pass, utilities	—
Left overbefore the bills this city does not publish	€2,053

Take-home pay for other salaries and households Compare with another city Check a job offer in Gallneukirchen Salary needed to live in Gallneukirchen

Public employment service

No exact public employment office is currently linked to Gallneukirchen. The verified national service may still offer online registration, job search or an official office finder.

Country-level information

Arbeitsmarktservice Österreich — Public employment service

Arbeitsmarktservice Österreich (AMS)

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Country-level service information is not treated as proof of a physical office in Gallneukirchen. Sources checked through 10 Aug 2026.

Safety

How safe is Gallneukirchen?

Police recorded about 2,215 incidents per 100,000 (2023). This counts all offences, so it is not comparable with a violent-crime-only rate from another source. Source: Sicherheitsbericht 2023 – Kriminalität, Vorbeugung und Bekämpfung, Anhang; Kriminalitätsbericht 2023, district frequency tables¹⁴

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Recorded incidents per 100,000 residents	2,215 incidents per 100,000	31 Dec 2023	Sicherheitsbericht 2023 – Kriminalität, Vorbeugung und Bekämpfung, Anhang; Kriminalitätsbericht 2023, district frequency tables¹⁴Official · county

Mobility and administration

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Destinations from nearest airport	8 count	3 Aug 2026	OpenFlights¹¹Official
Nearest airport	LNZ	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports¹²Official
Distance to nearest airport	21 km	3 Aug 2026	OurAirports¹²Official

Language courses and integration

No exact city-level course record is currently published for Gallneukirchen. These verified national programmes may still apply; use the official programme page to check local availability.

Country-level information

ÖIF German-learning and integration centres — Welcome Program

Österreichischer Integrationsfonds (ÖIF)

For migrants and newcomers.

GermanIn Person, Online

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ÖIF individual language-course funding and partner institutes — State Language Course

Österreichischer Integrationsfonds (ÖIF)

For eligible migrants.

GermanIn PersonSubsidised

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National programme information is not treated as proof of a course location in Gallneukirchen.

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Climate and air quality

Is the air quality good in Gallneukirchen?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 11 µg/m³ (2024) — above the WHO 2021 guideline of 5 µg/m³ but within the EU limit of 25 µg/m³. Source: European Environment Agency⁷

Annual mean at the measuring site(s) serving the city; current-day readings differ.

Air quality vs health guidelinesAnnual means against WHO 2021 guidelines and EU legal limits

Within WHO 2021 guidelineAbove WHO, within EU limitAbove EU legal limitCity annual mean · µg/m³

PM2.511WHO 5 · EU 25

City values from the published air-quality observations. WHO 2021 guidelines and EU limit values are published constants.

PM2.5 across cities in AustriaAnnual PM2.5 in Gallneukirchen is 11.0 µg/m³. Of 118 cities with data, 38 have annual PM2.5 of 10 to under 11 µg/m³.

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Gallneukirchen 11.0

Annual PM2.5 (µg/m³)

Metric	Value	Period	Source
PM2.5 — annual mean	11 µg/m³country median 10.0	31 Dec 2024	European Environment Agency⁷Official
Monthly extreme high temperature	Jan 11.49 · Feb 14.95 · Mar 19.92 · Apr 24.84 · May 28.03 · Jun 30.62 · Jul 33.09 · Aug 33.98 · Sep 32.23 · Oct 23.53 · Nov 17.86 · Dec 13.14 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center⁹Official
Monthly extreme low temperature	Jan -25.98 · Feb -21 · Mar -19.08 · Apr -7.11 · May -2.52 · Jun 1.63 · Jul 5.88 · Aug 5.54 · Sep -0.7 · Oct -6.77 · Nov -12.57 · Dec -21.06 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center⁹Official
Average temperature by month	Jan -3.26 · Feb -1.97 · Mar 2.22 · Apr 7.67 · May 12.21 · Jun 16.26 · Jul 18.11 · Aug 17.78 · Sep 12.79 · Oct 7.87 · Nov 2.76 · Dec -1.65 °C	31 Dec 2001	NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center⁹Official

Annual PM2.5 over time10 published observations, 2015–2024

9.6

11.5

13.5

15.4

11.020152017201920212024

Annual PM2.5 fell 26.7% between 2015 and 2024, from 15.0 to 11.0.

Population and city profile

How many people live in Gallneukirchen?

The published population was 6,747 people in January 2025. Source: Archived AT round-01 G01 population evidence²

Who lives hereResidents by nationality, % of population

By nationality

National passport90.9%

Calculated from the population and foreign-resident facts on this page.

Metric	Value	Period	Source
City area	5.19 km²	1 Jan 2025	Gemeinden 2025-01-01 WFS geometry⁸Official
Foreign-resident share	9.3 %	31 Dec 2024	Statistik Austria¹⁵Official
Foreign residents	616 people	1 Jan 2026	Bevölkerung am 01.01.2026 nach Staatsangehörigkeit und administrativen Gebietseinheiten³Official
Population density	1,301 people/km²	1 Jan 2025	Reproducible Gemeinde density from archived official population_total 2025-01-01 divided by official 2025 Gemeinde geometry area.⁸Official
Population	6,747 people	1 Jan 2025	Archived AT round-01 G01 population evidence²Official

International community in Gallneukirchen

Named groups from exact city-grain official distributions. Citizenship, birthplace, language and ancestry answer different questions and stay separate.

Country of birth

Population with main residence, current territorial structure, 1 January 2026, total sex · 2026-01-01

Published group	People	Share
Population total	6,708	100.0%
Austria	5,944	88.6%
Non-Austria	764	11.4%
EU and EFTA states (including United Kingdom)	389	5.8%
Third countries	375	5.6%
EU Member States (26)	370	5.5%
Europe including Türkiye	211	3.1%
EU Member States since 2004 (13)	198	3.0%
EU Member States before 2004 (13)	172	2.6%
Germany	136	2.0%

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Published group	People	Share
Asia	104	1.6%
Romania	67	1.0%
Ukraine	57	0.8%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	44	0.7%
Türkiye	43	0.6%
Hungary	35	0.5%
Africa	29	0.4%
America	25	0.4%
Syria	25	0.4%
Latin America	20	0.3%
EFTA states, associated microstates and United Kingdom	19	0.3%
Serbia	12	0.2%
North America	5	0.1%
Croatia	3	0.0%
Oceania	3	0.0%
Unknown / unsettled / stateless	3	0.0%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source³

Citizenship

Population with main residence, current territorial structure, 1 January 2026, total sex · 2026-01-01

Published group	People	Share
Population total	6,708	100.0%
Austria	6,092	90.8%
Non-Austria	616	9.2%
EU and EFTA states (including United Kingdom)	340	5.1%
EU Member States (26)	335	5.0%
Third countries	276	4.1%
EU Member States since 2004 (13)	182	2.7%
EU Member States before 2004 (13)	153	2.3%
Europe including Türkiye	150	2.2%
Germany	115	1.7%

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Published group	People	Share
Asia	92	1.4%
Romania	62	0.9%
Ukraine	52	0.8%
Hungary	36	0.5%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	31	0.5%
Africa	21	0.3%
Syria	20	0.3%
Türkiye	18	0.3%
America	13	0.2%
Serbia	10	0.1%
Latin America	9	0.1%
Croatia	6	0.1%
EFTA states, associated microstates and United Kingdom	5	0.1%
North America	4	0.1%

Largest published groups; zero-count groups are omitted. Dimensions are source-native and are never merged. Official source³

Additional context

Metric	Value	Period	Source
Households	3,109 households	31 Dec 2024	Statistik Austria¹⁵Official

Alternatives for people set on Gallneukirchen

Three places for the three reasons people leave a city on the shortlist: stay in the region, stay in the country, or keep the budget and change the country. A percentage appears only where both cities publish that metric from the same source, period and grain. Distances are straight lines — travel times are not collected yet.

Steyregg as a Gallneukirchen alternative in the same region

9 km away, better on 2 of 6 metrics measured the same way, worse on 0.

Unemployment: 2.5% Steyregg vs 3.5% Gallneukirchen−29%
Residents: 5,005 Steyregg vs 6,747 Gallneukirchen−26%
Foreign residents: 10.1% Steyregg vs 9.3% Gallneukirchen+9%
Rent: €6.90/m² Steyregg vs €6.90/m² Gallneukirchensame level
Median gross pay, region: €3,404 Steyregg vs €3,404 Gallneukirchensame level
Recorded crime, per 100k: 2,215 Steyregg vs 2,215 Gallneukirchensame level

Full comparison More about Steyregg

Klagenfurt am Wörthersee as a Gallneukirchen alternative in the same country

A move, not a commute, at 193 km, better on 3 of 6 metrics measured the same way, worse on 2. Recorded crime, per 100k cannot be compared like for like.

Residents: 105,256 Klagenfurt am Wörthersee vs 6,747 Gallneukirchen+1460%
Unemployment: 7.3% Klagenfurt am Wörthersee vs 3.5% Gallneukirchen+109%
Foreign residents: 21.3% Klagenfurt am Wörthersee vs 9.3% Gallneukirchen+129%
Rent: €5.90/m² Klagenfurt am Wörthersee vs €6.90/m² Gallneukirchen−14%
Nearest airport: 3.0 km Klagenfurt am Wörthersee vs 21.0 km Gallneukirchen−86%
Recorded crime, per 100k: 7,994 Klagenfurt am Wörthersee vs 2,215 Gallneukirchenno percentage
Median gross pay, region: €3,268 Klagenfurt am Wörthersee vs €3,404 Gallneukirchen−4%

Full comparison More about Klagenfurt am Wörthersee

Cities near Gallneukirchen

Published cities within 25 km, nearest first. Distances are straight-line.

Alternative cities in Austria

Other cities in Austria to compare with Gallneukirchen, nearest in population first.

All Austria cities

Hörbranz6,731 residents Hartberg6,725 residents Seeboden am Millstätter See6,706 residents Lochau6,696 residents Frohnleiten6,690 residents Bad Hofgastein6,677 residents

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Yes — migrants can receive medical care in Gallneukirchen when the national insurance or residence conditions are met.

Healthcare access follows the country-wide insurance rules; local capacity facts remain city data and are not used as proof of eligibility.

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Country rule verified 2026-08-03.

School for children who move here. School is compulsory from age 6 to 15. Newly arrived pupils get support in the school language: Übergangsstufen (transition classes for pupils with insufficient German). How to enrol a child (bmbwf.gv.at).

A country-wide rule for Austria; Gallneukirchen's school authority applies it locally.

Sources: eurydice.eacea.ec.europa.eu · 2025–2026.

Is Gallneukirchen part of Linz?

Gallneukirchen is in the published commuting zone of Linz; this does not mean it is administratively part of the hub. Linz city profile

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Common questions

Answered from the published values on this page, each with its source and date.

How many people live in Gallneukirchen?

The published population was 6,747 people in January 2025. Source: Archived AT round-01 G01 population evidence.

Is the air quality good in Gallneukirchen?

The annual PM2.5 mean is 11 µg/m³ (2024) — above the WHO 2021 guideline of 5 µg/m³ but within the EU limit of 25 µg/m³. Source: European Environment Agency.

How safe is Gallneukirchen?

What is the unemployment rate in Gallneukirchen?

The unemployment rate is 3.5 % (2024). Source: Register-based Labour Market Statistics 2024 — Key Results, municipalities.

What is the typical salary around Gallneukirchen?

The median gross salary is 3,404 EUR/month. Source: Brutto- und Nettojahreseinkommen der unselbständig Erwerbstätigen nach Bundesländern 2024.

Is Gallneukirchen a good place to live?

Gallneukirchen may suit different people for different reasons. The page's profile scores compare published cost, work, housing, safety, healthcare and other available factors; they are a decision aid, not a universal recommendation.

Is Gallneukirchen part of Linz?

Gallneukirchen is in the published commuting zone of Linz; this does not mean it is administratively part of the hub.

Which cities are near Gallneukirchen?

Linz, Engerwitzdorf, Pregarten, Steyregg, Leonding are near Gallneukirchen. Typed relationship labels are shown where published; other rows use straight-line distance from admitted coordinates.

How many people born in Population total live in Gallneukirchen?

The official country of birth distribution records 6,708 people (100.0%) in the source-defined population for 2026-01-01. This is a country of birth measure, not a general estimate of ethnicity or migration status.

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  title = {Gallneukirchen, Austria: population, rent, salary, jobs},
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  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-16},
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}

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A1 Internet 100 a1.net · checked 2026-09-15
Archived AT round-01 G01 population evidence statistik.at · checked 2025-01-01
Bevölkerung am 01.01.2026 nach Staatsangehörigkeit und administrativen Gebietseinheiten statistik.at · checked 2026-01-01
bob Flex 100GB newsroom.a1.net · checked 2026-09-15
Brutto- und Nettojahreseinkommen der unselbständig Erwerbstätigen nach Bundesländern 2024 statistik.at · checked 2026-09-23
Durchschnittliche Nettomiete und Betriebskosten von Hauptmietwohnungen nach Bundesland (Zeitreihe), Tabelle 3 statistik.at · checked 2026-09-24
European Environment Agency air.discomap.eea.europa.eu · checked 2026-08-03
Gemeinden 2025-01-01 WFS geometry statistik.gv.at · checked 2025-01-01
NASA POWER / NASA Langley Research Center power.larc.nasa.gov · checked 2026-08-03
oecd.org place coordinates oecd.org · checked 2026-08-28

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OurAirports davidmegginson.github.io · checked 2026-08-03
Register-based Labour Market Statistics 2024 — Key Results, municipalities Register-based Labour Market Statistics 2024 · statistik.at · checked 2026-07-26
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