Living in Santa Maria Maior
District of Lisbon · 1.49 km²
Tourist crowds
Is Santa Maria Maior a good place to live? Not really: its typical street scores 10, 24th of 24 areas in Lisbon, held back by tourist crowds. 92% of its streets are very touristy and 34% on loud roads.
Daily life on foot (typical street)
Shop 1 min 
Café or bar 1 min 
Pharmacy 2 min 
School 3 min 
Tram or bus stop 2 min What's here
689 cafés, bars and restaurants · 110 shops · 23 pharmacies · 17 schools · 47 stops
The six parts
Also scored
Not part of the score above.
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; 576 votes on danger tags, 0 on safe tags.) Hoodmaps: hoodmaps.com/lisbon-neighborhood-map
Police-recorded crime for the whole region, compared with the European median. Says nothing about this district in particular. (Área Metropolitana de Lisboa (NUTS 2021): 1,352 assaults, robberies, burglaries and thefts per 100,000 people in 2022, 1.9× 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 Santa Maria Maior
Rua do Jardim do Tabaco (30), Boqueirão da Ponte da Lama (30), Beco da Lapa (30)