HoodEx scores areas of Zurich, Zürich, Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera/Svizra from 0 to 10 on green space and air, comfort and safety, homes and buildings, shops and services, and getting around. Of the areas reported on in depth so far, Oberstrass scores highest at 8.3/10, against an average of 7.4/10. Open any report below, or find which part of Zurich fits you.
Across the 19 measured areas HoodEx has mapped in Zurich, the average score is 7.4 out of 10 — strong. That places Zurich 12th of the 33 cities measured so far, 0.8 above the 6.6 average across those cities.
The highest-scoring area is Oberstrass at 8.3/10; the lowest is Leimbach at 6.2/10. A gap of 2.1 points across one city is large — in Zurich the address matters more than the city does. 14 of the 19 areas score 7 or better.
Averaged across Zurich: green & air 8.3, comfort & safety 6.7, homes & buildings 7.8, shops & services 6.3 and getting around 7.7, each out of 10.
Zurich's strongest category is green & air — greenery and environmental quality — at 8.3/10, 2.6 above the 5.7 average for that category. The weakest is shops & services — community life and local services — at 6.3/10, 0.4 below the 6.7 average. Those two are the shape of the city: what it gives you everywhere, and what you have to hunt for.
Against the other 33 measured cities, Zurich ranks 3rd for green & air.
The score that swings most from one Zurich area to the next is shops & services: 3.0/10 in Albisrieden, 9.7/10 in Altstadt — a spread of 6.7 points. In practice that means whether there is a life on your doorstep is the thing your choice of address actually decides here.
By contrast green & air moves by only 2.8 points across the whole city, so it is close to a constant: worth knowing about Zurich, but not worth paying extra for one street over another.
No single area wins on everything, so it is worth knowing which one leads on the thing you care about. In Zurich that is most green space: Witikon (9.2/10 green & air), best connected: Wollishofen (9.8/10 getting around), strongest community life: Altstadt (9.7/10 shops & services) and best housing stock: Seebach (9.1/10 homes & buildings).
Open any of them below for the full breakdown — the five category scores, the components underneath them, and what residents have reported.
Describe the life you want — budget, commute, how much green you need, how lively the street should be — and HoodEx ranks Zurich's neighbourhoods against your answers instead of you looking up one address at a time.
If nobody has searched Zurich 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.
Find which part of Zurich fits you
These parts of Zurich have been measured in full — each has its own page with the five scores, the readings underneath them and photos of the streets.
Every HoodEx neighbourhood is scored from 0 to 10 in five categories. Scores are generated by AI analysis of satellite imagery, street-level imagery, points of interest and public datasets, then blended into a single overall score.
HoodEx has scored 19 neighbourhoods in Zurich. New areas are added when someone checks a local address.
The average overall score across scored Zurich neighbourhoods is 7.4/10, blended from our five scoring categories — 0.8 above the 6.6 average across the 33 cities HoodEx has measured.
Oberstrass currently has the highest overall score in Zurich at 8.3/10, 2.1 points ahead of the lowest-scoring measured area, Leimbach (6.2/10).
Witikon scores highest on green & air in Zurich at 9.2/10, covering green space, air and water quality and natural features. The city average for green & air is 8.3/10.
Wollishofen leads on getting around — transit access, road connectivity, walkability and reaching everyday destinations — at 9.8/10, against a Zurich average of 7.7/10.
Shops & services varies most across Zurich — a spread of 6.7 points between Albisrieden (3.0/10) and Altstadt (9.7/10). That makes whether there is a life on your doorstep the thing your address decides here, while green & air is close to constant citywide (2.8 points).
Every neighbourhood is scored 0–10 in five categories — Green & air, Comfort & safety, Homes & buildings, Shops & services, and Getting around — 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 score.
Yes — browsing neighbourhood scores and community insights is free. A detailed report for a new address is paid.
Scores update as new analyses are run and community feedback comes in. Each neighbourhood page shows when it was last updated.