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Living in Nowa Huta and Wzgórza Krzesławickie

District of Kraków · 89.14 km²

67
A good place to live

Leafy and open skies

Is Nowa Huta and Wzgórza Krzesławickie a good place to live? Mostly: its typical street scores 67, 16th of 17 areas in Kraków. 69% of its streets are leafy, 14% on loud roads and 31% need a car.

Daily life on foot (typical street)

Shop 7 min Café or bar 9 min Pharmacy 21 min School 11 min Tram or bus stop 3 min

What's here

89 cafés, bars and restaurants · 120 shops · 23 pharmacies · 98 schools · 342 stops

The six parts

View and sky 90
Trees and green 76
Parks nearby 100
Quiet 78
Few tourists 100
Life without a car 52

Also scored

Easy on foot 49
Good for families 70

Not part of the score above.

Safety

71
Mostly fine

An estimate from 3 sources. Each note below says where it comes from and how far to trust it.

Street safety (our estimate) 70

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.)

Hoodmaps crowd 50

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; 0 votes on danger tags, 0 on safe tags.) Hoodmaps: hoodmaps.com/krakow-neighborhood-map

Region (Eurostat) 85

Police-recorded crime for the whole region, compared with the European median. Says nothing about this district in particular. (Miasto Kraków: 555 assaults, robberies, burglaries and thefts per 100,000 people in 2024, 0.4× 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 Nowa Huta and Wzgórza Krzesławickie

Urbanistów (94), Wiśniowy Sad (93), Władysława Orkana (92)

Neighbourhoods in Nowa Huta and Wzgórza Krzesławickie

  1. 1 Nowa Huta 86 Good transport and shops on foot
  2. 2 Wzgórza Krzesławickie 86 Leafy and parks nearby
  3. 3 Grębałów 82 Leafy and open skies
  4. 4 Lubocza 73 Leafy and open skies
  5. 5 Krzesławice 70 Open skies and good transport
  6. 6 Wadów 69 Leafy and open skies
  7. 7 Mogiła 69 Leafy and open skies
  8. 8 Zesławice 62 You'd need a car
  9. 9 Łuczanowice 53 You'd need a car
  10. 10 Branice 50 You'd need a car
  11. 11 Kantorowice 48 You'd need a car
  12. 12 Ruszcza 47 You'd need a car
  13. 13 Pleszów 40 You'd need a car
  14. 14 Kombinat 35 You'd need a car
  15. 15 Kujawy 32 You'd need a car

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