HoodEx has analyzed 2 neighborhoods in Cairo, القاهرة, Egypt. The average livability score across Cairo is 4.3/10, measured across nature, community, housing, connectivity and quality of daily life. بولاق currently ranks highest at 4.7/10. Compare every analyzed area below, or run your own AI report for any Cairo address.
Cairo sits on the Nile just north of the Delta, spreading east and west across an arid plain. The climate is desert-hot in summer and mild in winter, with rain falling only briefly and rarely. Much of the city consists of dense concrete apartment blocks and informal settlements that have expanded vertically, and the housing stock is predominantly solid concrete construction. Public movement depends heavily on a metro rail spine, microbuses, and private vehicles, with street congestion a constant feature of the day. Urban green space is sparse and unevenly spread. Districts range from dense historic cores to newer informal neighborhoods and planned suburbs, creating sharp differences in how connected each area feels. Throughout, the built environment tends to outpace what the natural setting readily provides, and the contrast between solid shelter and scarce greenery shapes daily life.
Across the 2 measured areas HoodEx has mapped in Cairo, the average livability score is 4.3 out of 10 — weak. That places Cairo 26th of the 26 cities measured so far, 2.7 below the 7.0 average across those cities.
The highest-scoring area is بولاق at 4.7/10; the lowest is 68 شارع سكه حديد المحجر at 3.9/10. A gap of only 0.8 points means Cairo is fairly even: most areas offer a similar standard, and the choice comes down to what kind of place you want rather than how good it is.
Averaged across Cairo: nature 2.4, anthropos 4.6, shells 5.8, society 4.1 and networks 5.4, each out of 10.
Cairo's strongest dimension is shells — the buildings and housing stock — at 5.8/10, 1.2 below the 7.0 average for that pillar. The weakest is nature — greenery and environmental quality — at 2.4/10, 3.2 below the 5.6 average. Those two are the shape of the city: what it gives you everywhere, and what you have to hunt for.
Describe the life you want — budget, commute, how much green you need, how lively the street should be — and HoodEx ranks Cairo's neighbourhoods against your answers instead of you looking up one address at a time.
If nobody has searched Cairo here before, the matcher maps it first — a one-off couple of minutes while you answer the questions. It runs without an account, and the top matches are free.
See which part of Cairo fits you
Every HoodEx neighborhood is scored from 0 to 10 across five dimensions drawn from the Ekistics framework for human settlements. Scores are generated by AI analysis of satellite imagery, street-level imagery, points of interest and public datasets, then blended into a single overall livability score.
HoodEx has analyzed 2 neighborhoods in Cairo. New areas are added whenever someone runs an analysis for a local address.
The average overall livability score across analyzed Cairo neighborhoods is 4.3/10, blended from our five scoring categories — 2.7 below the 7.0 average across the 26 cities HoodEx has measured.
بولاق currently has the highest overall livability score in Cairo at 4.7/10, 0.8 points ahead of the lowest-scoring measured area, 68 شارع سكه حديد المحجر (3.9/10).
Every neighborhood is scored 0–10 across five categories — Nature, Anthropos, Shells, Society and Networks — using AI analysis of satellite imagery, street-level imagery, points of interest and public datasets. The five category scores are blended into a single overall livability score.
Yes — browsing neighborhood scores and community insights is free. Running a fresh, in-depth AI analysis of a new address uses a report credit.
Scores update as new analyses are run and community feedback comes in. Each individual neighborhood page shows when it was last updated.