Living in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
District of Berlin · 20.36 km²
Little sky or green
Is Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg a good place to live? It's mixed: its typical street scores 63, 11th of 12 areas in Berlin, held back by little sky or green. 32% of its streets are on loud roads.
Daily life on foot (typical street)
Shop 2 min 
Café or bar 1 min 
Pharmacy 5 min 
School 2 min 
Tram or bus stop 3 min What's here
2,131 cafés, bars and restaurants · 621 shops · 72 pharmacies · 409 schools · 149 stops
The six parts
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Safety
An estimate from 3 sources. Each note below says where it comes from and how far to trust it.
Our estimate from traffic speed, crossings, street lighting and how many places are open nearby. It is not about crime. (median of the district's streets.)
From Hoodmaps, a crowd map where anyone tags areas. Tags are often blunt or joking and nobody checks them. Can be unreliable. (on Hoodmaps' crime list; 643 votes on danger tags, 0 on safe tags.) Hoodmaps: hoodmaps.com/berlin-neighborhood-map
Police-recorded crime for the whole region, compared with the European median. Says nothing about this district in particular. (Berlin: 5,848 assaults, robberies, burglaries and thefts per 100,000 people in 2024, 4.5× the European regional median.)
Not part of the score above, and it doesn't change the map colours. Some sources can be unreliable.
Not available here yet: Reddit, City survey (Numbeo).
Best streets to live on in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
Bahrfeldtstraße (82), Lilienthalstraße (81), Fischzug (78)