Sattledt No. 1 again

These municipalities are in the best financial position

Every year, the Center for Public Administration Research publishes the so-called creditworthiness ranking of municipalities. The current report lists the 250 municipalities that are in the best financial position nationwide. Sattledt remains Upper Austria's front runner. What about the others?

The highest transfer amounts of all the federal states and the most compulsory levies: According to SPÖ leader Michael Lindner, these are the reasons why many municipalities in Upper Austria are short of money. More than 104 municipalities have already had to apply for hardship compensation this year - in other words, they need a financial injection from the state.

Economically most efficient
However, there are still those municipalities that are not struggling financially. They have made it into the top 250 of the most economically efficient municipalities in the KDZ - Center for Public Administration Research's creditworthiness ranking. In Upper Austria, as in previous years, Sattledt came out on top. With a credit rating of 1.17 (school grading system), the municipality of 3100 inhabitants in the district of Wels-Land is ranked 9th nationwide.

You can find the entire ranking here:

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In addition to Wolfern and Helpfau-Uttendorf, which are both still in the top 50, Ohlsdorf and Eschenau im Hausruckkreis stand out in particular from an Upper Austrian perspective this year: the two newcomers to the rankings made it to fourth and fifth place in Upper Austria from a standing start (95 and 105 nationwide).

The top Austrian municipalities can be found in Salzburg (Elixhausen, Dienten) and Tyrol (Niederndorf, Langkampfen). The municipalities in Carinthia have the lowest credit ratings - but not all that glitters is gold in Upper Austria either: most of the local municipalities are in the bottom half of the ranking.