HoodEx has analyzed 2 neighborhoods in Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal. The average livability score across Lisbon is 7.9/10, measured across nature, community, housing, connectivity and quality of daily life. São Nicolau currently ranks highest at 8.1/10. Compare every analyzed area below, or run your own AI report for any Lisbon address.
Lisbon sits on the Atlantic coast where the Tagus River meets the sea, spreading across steep hills that rise from a broad waterfront. The city center is a dense weave of narrow streets and tightly packed older buildings, many faced with traditional ceramic tile, while flatter districts closer to the river follow a regular grid. Hillside neighborhoods climb steeply, making streetcars, funiculars, and stairways part of daily travel alongside buses, a metro, and ferries that cross the estuary. Housing ranges from centuries-old apartments in the historic core to newer blocks in outer districts. The climate is mild and Atlantic-influenced, with warm summers and wet, windy winters. This compact, vertical layout fosters busy street life and accessible local services, though large parks and continuous greenery remain scarce across the measured areas.
Across the 2 measured areas HoodEx has mapped in Lisbon, the average livability score is 7.9 out of 10 — strong. That places Lisbon 4th of the 26 cities measured so far, 0.9 above the 7.0 average across those cities.
The highest-scoring area is São Nicolau at 8.1/10; the lowest is Santa Maria Maior at 7.7/10. A gap of only 0.4 points means Lisbon 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. 2 of the 2 areas score 7 or better.
Averaged across Lisbon: nature 5.6, anthropos 7.3, shells 8.8, society 9.3 and networks 8.5, each out of 10.
Lisbon's strongest dimension is society — community life and local services — at 9.3/10, 1.7 above the 7.6 average for that pillar. The weakest is nature — greenery and environmental quality — at 5.6/10, in line with the 5.6 average. Those two are the shape of the city: what it gives you everywhere, and what you have to hunt for.
Against the other 26 measured cities, Lisbon ranks 3rd for shells, 5th for society and 6th for networks.
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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 Lisbon. New areas are added whenever someone runs an analysis for a local address.
The average overall livability score across analyzed Lisbon neighborhoods is 7.9/10, blended from our five scoring categories — 0.9 above the 7.0 average across the 26 cities HoodEx has measured.
São Nicolau currently has the highest overall livability score in Lisbon at 8.1/10, 0.4 points ahead of the lowest-scoring measured area, Santa Maria Maior (7.7/10).
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.
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Scores update as new analyses are run and community feedback comes in. Each individual neighborhood page shows when it was last updated.