Living in Pankow
District of Berlin · 103.14 km²
Open skies and parks nearby
Is Pankow a good place to live? Mostly: its typical street scores 70, 9th of 12 areas in Berlin. 46% of its streets are leafy, 20% on loud roads and 10% need a car.
Daily life on foot (typical street)
Shop 5 min 
Café or bar 4 min 
Pharmacy 9 min 
School 4 min 
Tram or bus stop 4 min What's here
1,466 cafés, bars and restaurants · 602 shops · 92 pharmacies · 574 schools · 318 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 Pankow
Beatrice-Zweig-Straße (88), Franz-Schmidt-Straße (87), Fritz-Erpenbeck-Ring (87)
Neighbourhoods in Pankow
- 1 Wilhelmsruh 77 Shops on foot and parks nearby
- 2 Niederschönhausen 77 Open skies and parks nearby
- 3 Buch 77 Parks nearby and open skies
- 4 Pankow 75 Shops on foot and good transport
- 5 Heinersdorf 75 Open skies and quiet
- 6 Weißensee 75 Shops on foot and good transport
- 7 Karow 73 Leafy and open skies
- 8 Rosenthal 67 Quiet and leafy
- 9 Französisch Buchholz 65 Quiet and open skies
- 10 Prenzlauer Berg 62 Little sky or green
- 11 Blankenburg 61 You'd need a car
- 12 Blankenfelde 51 You'd need a car
- 13 Stadtrandsiedlung Malchow 42 You'd need a car