Living in Lichtenberg
District of Berlin · 52.1 km²
Quiet and parks nearby
Is Lichtenberg a good place to live? Mostly: its typical street scores 75, 3rd of 12 areas in Berlin. 30% of its streets are leafy and 15% on loud roads.
Daily life on foot (typical street)
Shop 4 min 
Café or bar 3 min 
Pharmacy 8 min 
School 4 min 
Tram or bus stop 3 min What's here
525 cafés, bars and restaurants · 293 shops · 65 pharmacies · 299 schools · 208 stops
The six parts
Also scored
Not part of the score above.
Safety
An estimate from 2 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.)
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 Lichtenberg
Baikalstraße (89), Schwarzmeerstraße (88), Balatonstraße (88)
Neighbourhoods in Lichtenberg
- 1 Neu-Hohenschönhausen 81 Shops on foot and good transport
- 2 Friedrichsfelde 81 Shops on foot and parks nearby
- 3 Fennpfuhl 77 Shops on foot and good transport
- 4 Alt-Hohenschönhausen 74 Shops on foot and open skies
- 5 Lichtenberg 72 Good transport and shops on foot
- 6 Karlshorst 71 Quiet and leafy
- 7 Falkenberg 69 Quiet and leafy
- 8 Rummelsburg 68 Good transport and shops on foot
- 9 Wartenberg 62 You'd need a car
- 10 Malchow 49 You'd need a car