Where to live in Freiburg with a family

Ranking of Freiburg's 35 areas with CityPulse's “Family” profile. What matters most: public green space, playgrounds on foot, tree canopy, services on foot and protected cycle lanes. Preferred density: medium.

What is the best area of Freiburg to live in with a family?

According to CityPulse: Landwasser (99), Oberwiehre (97) and Oberau (96).

Freiburg areas ranked

#	Area	Score	Strength
1	Landwasser	99 · excellent	Public green space
2	Oberwiehre	97 · excellent	Public green space
3	Oberau	96 · excellent	Public green space
4	Weingarten	93 · excellent	Public green space
5	Lehen	93 · excellent	Public green space
6	Waldsee	93 · excellent	Public green space
7	Vauban	92 · excellent	Public green space
8	Brühl-Beurbarung	92 · excellent	Public green space
9	Rieselfeld	92 · excellent	Public green space
10	Betzenhausen	92 · excellent	Public green space
11	Mooswald	91 · excellent	Public green space
12	Brühl-Güterbahnhof	91 · excellent	Public green space
13	Unterwiehre-Nord	90 · excellent	Playgrounds on foot
14	Haslach-Egerten	90 · excellent	Public green space
15	Alt-Betzenhausen	90 · excellent	Public green space
16	Wiehre	90 · excellent	Playgrounds on foot
17	Carl-Sieder-Hof	89 · excellent	Public green space
18	Haslach	88 · excellent	Public green space
19	Unterwiehre-Süd	87 · excellent	Tree canopy
20	Bifänge	87 · excellent	Playgrounds on foot
21	Sternenhof	86 · excellent	Public green space
22	Uffhausen	86 · excellent	Public green space
23	Haslach-Schildacker	85 · excellent	Playgrounds on foot
24	Altstadt	85 · excellent	Playgrounds on foot
25	Zähringen	84 · excellent	Playgrounds on foot
26	Neuburg	83 · excellent	Playgrounds on foot
27	Stühlinger	83 · excellent	Public green space
28	Haslach-Haid	81 · excellent	Public green space
29	Welchental	76 · good	Tree canopy
30	Sankt Georgen	73 · good	Services on foot
31	Herdern	69 · good	Playgrounds on foot
32	Kappel-Neuhäuser	68 · good	Tree canopy
33	Sechzehn Jauchert	63 · good	Playgrounds on foot
34	Wendlingen	56 · fair	Playgrounds on foot
35	Wonnhalde	55 · fair	Tree canopy

What it does not consider

The ranking does not account for rents and house prices, noise, safety, or distance from university or work. Use it to decide where to look, then check the individual address.

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Areas are named after OpenStreetMap neighbourhoods and have approximate boundaries: each hexagon goes to the nearest name. Values are residents' medians. Data updated on 2026-11-05. Method and sources