Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus, and specifically the area around Westbahnhof station and the Gürtel, has substantial and recent documented press coverage of an open drug scene. vienna.at (24 Nov 2025) and heute.at (23 Nov 2025) both reported a growing drug scene at Westbahnhof with users injecting in building entrances, rising dealing, property damage and residents feeling 'left alone' by authorities, explicitly locating the problem in the 15th district. The city responded with a new alcohol-prohibition zone around Westbahnhof and a protected zone at Fritz-Imhoff-Park, effective 8 May 2026, and police drug busts continued into 2026, including a July 2026 raid on Mariahilfer Straße (within the district) seizing 500g of cocaine and €15,000 in cash. A heute.at report from 9 August 2026 cites district-level statistics showing drug offences in Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus rose from 435 to 697 cases year-on-year (2024 to 2025), one of the city's largest increases alongside neighbouring Mariahilf. This is a well-documented, ongoing pattern rather than a single incident, concentrated around the Westbahnhof/Gürtel corridor and worse after dark. Sources checked: vienna.at, "Drogenszene am Wiener Westbahnhof wächst: Anrainer fühlen sich allein gelassen" (24 Nov 2025); heute.at, "Spritzen, Vandalismus – Drogen-Hotspot Westbahnhof wird zum Problem" (23 Nov 2025); meinbezirk.at, "Sicherheitspaket: Alkoholverbotszone am Westbahnhof, Fritz-Imhoff-Park wird Schutzzone" (effective 8 May 2026); heute.at, "Drogen-Hotspot in Wien – Suchtmitteldelikte steigen" (9 Aug 2026); meinbezirk.at, "Wiener Polizei hebt Dealerduo und halbes Kilo Kokain aus" (11 Jul 2026).
Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus (15. Bezirk) — Vienna, Austria
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Is Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus (15. Bezirk) safe?
Wandroz currently rates Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus (15. Bezirk) in Vienna as roughly average compared to other neighbourhoods in Vienna during the day and an area where the data suggests extra caution relative to other neighbourhoods in Vienna at night. This comes from a structured local-source assessment: an area-level review of credible local sources — local and national news, municipal and police-published material, and official surveys where they exist — consolidated across sources rather than taken from a single report. Vienna publishes no comparable neighbourhood-level crime dataset; where a city does, Wandroz uses it instead.
Is Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus (15. Bezirk) safe at night?
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Is Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus (15. Bezirk) a good area to stay in as a tourist?
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