Renting in St. Pölten
St. Pölten is the only market we cover whose main argument lies in another city: the way to Vienna. From the centre it is 31 minutes from your front door to Vienna Central Station, and 64 across the market as a whole. We compute that time for every location instead of copying the train timetable.
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These rental flats are currently available in St. Pölten.
3380 PöchlarnHelle 3-Zi-Wohnung in Pöchlarn mit Balkon & 2 Garagen – 80m², förderbar, Miete€ 1.016/month81 m²3 rooms
3500 Krems an der DonauModerne 2-Zimmer-Wohnung in Krems, 65m²€ 1.026/month65 m²2 rooms
3233 KilbBarrierefreie 2-Zi Wohnung in Kilb, Balkon, Stellplatz, Ebk, 67m², Miete -förderbar€ 947/month67 m²
3233 KilbGemütliche 2-Zi Wohnung mit Loggia & Stellplatz in Kilb, barrierefrei – Miete förderbar€ 874/month59 m²2 rooms
3282 St. Georgen an der LeysHelle 3-Zimmer Wohnung mit Balkon in St. Georgen an der Leys – Miete - Förderbar€ 775/month76 m²3 rooms
Wölbling2-Zimmer Mietwohnung in Oberwölbling mit Autoabstellplatz!€ 839/month55 m²1 roomsListings come directly from estate agents and private owners, through interfaces and our own editor. We do not copy portals, and we take no commission.
How many rental flats are currently in which St. Pölten district and which surrounding municipality. The link opens the atlas with all the location data.
The difference is not the number of listings, it is what stands next to each one. No property description answers these four questions honestly, because the landlord writes it.
Not the 25 minutes the train needs from the main station, but the time from your front door to Vienna Central Station, including the walk, the wait and the change. From the centre that is 31 minutes; across all locations in the market the median is 64.
See travel times →The western railway runs through the middle of town, plus the A1 motorway and the S33. St. Pölten is not an agglomeration under the EU directive, so only these main sources are mapped: no zone does not mean quiet here, and we say so.
Open the noise map →The Traisen valley is flat and the city compact, so the differences come from sealed surfaces. We compute the heat load per location from the Copernicus model, and we say that it is a model.
Open the heat map →Sunlight per facade, calculated with the neighbourhood building heights from the BEV laser scan. A south-facing balcony in a courtyard is not a south-facing balcony.
Open the sun check →For rental flats Austria applies the first-instructing-party principle: whoever hires the agent pays the agent. If you are asked for commission as a tenant although the landlord hired the agent, that is usually not lawful.
Fixed-term contracts under the full scope of the Tenancy Act run for at least three years and carry a 25 percent discount on the permitted base rent. After one year you can give notice yourself, subject to the notice period.
Listings usually quote the gross rent including running costs and VAT, but sometimes only the base rent. Only comparing the same figure across several flats tells you which one is expensive.
Three gross monthly rents is the usual deposit, interest-bearing and refundable at the end. Key money is only lawful for items actually taken over or for investments of real value, never for the contract itself.
The train needs about 25 minutes from St. Pölten main station. From your front door to Vienna Central Station it is more: 31 minutes from the centre, and a median of 64 across all inhabited locations in the market. We compute that time for every 250 m cell, including the walk, the wait and any change during the morning window.
Yes, and we say so. Of the 4,274 inhabited cells in the market, 1,342 have no connection to Vienna at all during the morning window, roughly a third. In that case we show nothing rather than an estimate.
Usually not. Since 1 July 2023 rental flats follow the first-instructing-party principle: whoever hires the agent pays, and that is almost always the landlord.
The province supports housing through its Wohnbauförderung scheme, which for renters includes a rent subsidy. We keep a separate page for all of Lower Austria.
The line runs through the middle of town, and the difference between close to the track and away from it is larger here than in many fully mapped cities. With around 57,000 inhabitants St. Pölten is not an agglomeration under the EU environmental noise directive, so only the main sources are mapped: the western railway, the A1, the S33 and the B1. Where there is no zone, that means not measured, not quiet.
Set your priorities once and the search orders by them: a short trip to Vienna, quiet location, cool summer, budget. No account, no cost.