Living in Podgórze
District of Kraków · 25.65 km²
Quiet and good transport
Is Podgórze a good place to live? Mostly: its typical street scores 70, 15th of 17 areas in Kraków. 31% of its streets are quiet and 19% on loud roads.
Daily life on foot (typical street)
Shop 3 min 
Café or bar 4 min 
Pharmacy 10 min 
School 6 min 
Tram or bus stop 4 min What's here
290 cafés, bars and restaurants · 197 shops · 15 pharmacies · 78 schools · 198 stops
The six parts
Also scored
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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; 0 votes on danger tags, 0 on safe tags.) Hoodmaps: hoodmaps.com/krakow-neighborhood-map
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 Podgórze
Stefana Korbońskiego (91), Stoigniewa (88), Franciszka Maryewskiego (88)