Living in Steglitz-Zehlendorf
District of Berlin · 102.49 km²
Leafy and open skies
Is Steglitz-Zehlendorf a good place to live? Mostly: its typical street scores 79, 1st of 12 areas in Berlin. 72% of its streets are leafy and 16% on loud roads.
Daily life on foot (typical street)
Shop 6 min 
Café or bar 4 min 
Pharmacy 8 min 
School 5 min 
Tram or bus stop 3 min What's here
825 cafés, bars and restaurants · 319 shops · 85 pharmacies · 353 schools · 360 stops
The six parts
Also scored
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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 Steglitz-Zehlendorf
Starkenburger Straße (91), Im Schönower Park (90), Marienplatz (89)
Neighbourhoods in Steglitz-Zehlendorf
- 1 Dahlem 81 Open skies and leafy
- 2 Schlachtensee 80 Leafy and open skies
- 3 Lichterfelde 79 Leafy and open skies
- 4 Lankwitz 79 Shops on foot and open skies
- 5 Zehlendorf 78 Leafy and open skies
- 6 Steglitz 78 Shops on foot and good transport
- 7 Nikolassee 73 Open skies and leafy
- 8 Wannsee 66 Leafy and open skies