Districts of Austria

In Austria, a district is a second-level division of the country's government. The first-level division are States of Austria.

District offices are the main point of contact for things like: marriage licenses, driver licenses, passports, assembly permits, hunting permits, or dealings with public health officers.

As of 2017, there are 94 districts. Of these 79 are districts headed by district commissions and 15 are statutory cities. Statutory cities are not usually referred to as "districts" outside government publications and the legal literature. A district headed by a district commission typically covers somewhere between ten and thirty municipalities.

List of current districts

statutory cities coded with an asterix (*)

Code	District	Established	License plate(s)	Administrative seat	Population 2014
101	Eisenstadt *	1921	E	*	13,485
102	Rust *	1921	E	*	1,942
103	Eisenstadt-Umgebung	1921	EU	Eisenstadt (not part of the district)	41,474
104	Güssing	1921	GS	Güssing	26,394
105	Jennersdorf	1921	JE	Jennersdorf	17,376
106	Mattersburg	1921	MA	Mattersburg	39,134
107	Neusiedl am See	1921	ND	Neusiedl am See	56,504
108	Oberpullendorf	1921	OP	Oberpullendorf	37,534
109	Oberwart	1921	OW	Oberwart	53,573
201	Klagenfurt am Wörthersee *	1850	K	*	96,640
202	Villach *	1932	VI	*	60,004
203	Hermagor	1868	HE	Hermagor-Pressegger See	18,547
204	Klagenfurt-Land	1868	KL	Klagenfurt am Wörthersee (not part of the district)	58,435
205	Sankt Veit an der Glan	1868	SV	St. Veit an der Glan	55,394
206	Spittal an der Drau	1868	SP	Spittal an der Drau	76,971
207	Villach-Land	1868	VL	Villach (not part of the district)	64,268
208	Völkermarkt	1868	VK	Völkermarkt	42,068
209	Wolfsberg	1868	WO	Wolfsberg	53,472
210	Feldkirchen	1982	FE	Feldkirchen in Kärnten	30,082
301	Krems an der Donau *	1938	KS	*	24,085
302	St. Pölten *	1922	P	*	52,145
303	Waidhofen an der Ybbs *	1868	WY	*	11,341
304	Wiener Neustadt *	1866	WN	*	42,273
305	Amstetten	1868	AM	Amstetten	112,944
306	Baden	1868	BN	Baden	140,078
307	Bruck an der Leitha	1868	BL, SW	Bruck an der Leitha	43,615
308	Gänserndorf	1901	GF	Gänserndorf	97,460
309	Gmünd	1899	GD	Gmünd	37,420
310	Hollabrunn	1868	HL	Hollabrunn	50,065
311	Horn	1868	HO	Horn	31,273
312	Korneuburg	1868	KO	Korneuburg	73,370
313	Krems	1868	KR	Krems an der Donau (not part of the district)	55,945
314	Lilienfeld	1868	LF	Lilienfeld	26,040
315	Melk	1896	ME	Melk	76,369
316	Mistelbach	1868	MI	Mistelbach	74,150
317	Mödling	1897	MD	Mödling	115,677
318	Neunkirchen	1868	NK	Neunkirchen	85,539
319	St. Pölten	1868	PL	St. Pölten (not part of the district)	97,365
320	Scheibbs	1868	SB	Scheibbs	41,073
321	Tulln	1892	TU, KG	Tulln an der Donau	72,104
322	Waidhofen an der Thaya	1868	WT	Waidhofen an der Thaya	26,424
323	Wiener Neustadt	1868	WB	Wiener Neustadt (not part of the district)	75,285
325	Zwettl	1868	ZT	Zwettl-Niederösterreich	43,102
401	Linz *	1866	L	*	183,814
402	Steyr *	1867	SR	*	38,120
403	Wels *	1964	WE	*	59,339
404	Braunau	1868	BR	Braunau am Inn	98,842
405	Eferding	1907	EF	Grieskirchen (administrative community)	31,961
406	Freistadt	1868	FR	Freistadt	65,208
407	Gmunden	1868	GM	Gmunden	99,540
408	Grieskirchen	1911	GR	Grieskirchen	62,938
409	Kirchdorf	1868	KI	Kirchdorf an der Krems	55,571
410	Linz-Land	1868	LL	Linz (not part of the district)	141,540
411	Perg	1868	PE	Perg	66,269
412	Ried	1868	RI	Ried im Innkreis	58,714
413	Rohrbach	1868	RO	Rohrbach-Berg	56,455
414	Schärding	1868	SD	Schärding	56,287
415	Steyr-Land	1868	SE	Steyr (not part of the district)	58,618
416	Urfahr-Umgebung	1919	UU	Linz (not part of the district)	82,109
417	Vöcklabruck	1868	VB	Vöcklabruck	131,497
418	Wels-Land	1868	WL	Wels (not part of the district)	68,600
501	Salzburg *	1869	S	*	146,631
502	Hallein	1896	HA	Hallein	58,336
503	Salzburg-Umgebung	1868	SL	Seekirchen am Wallersee	145,275
504	St. Johann im Pongau	1868	JO	St. Johann im Pongau	78,614
505	Tamsweg	1868	TA	Tamsweg	20,450
506	Zell am See	1868	ZE	Zell am See	84,964
601	Graz *	1850	G	*	269,997
603	Deutschlandsberg	1868	DL	Deutschlandsberg	60,466
606	Graz-Umgebung	1868	GU	Graz (not part of the district)	145,660
610	Leibnitz	1868	LB	Leibnitz	77,774
611	Leoben	1868	LE, LN	Leoben	61,771
612	Liezen	1868	GB, LI	Liezen	78,893
614	Murau	1868	MU	Murau	28,740
616	Voitsberg	1891	VO	Voitsberg	51,559
617	Weiz	1868	WZ	Weiz	88,355
620	Murtal	2012	MT	Judenburg	73,041
621	Bruck-Mürzzuschlag	2013	BM	Bruck an der Mur	100,855
622	Hartberg-Fürstenfeld	2013	HF	Hartberg	89,252
623	Südoststeiermark	2013	SO	Feldbach	88,843
701	Innsbruck *	1850	I	*	124,579
702	Imst	1868	IM	Imst	57,271
703	Innsbruck-Land	1868	IL	Innsbruck (not part of the district)	169,680
704	Kitzbühel	1868	KB	Kitzbühel	62,318
705	Kufstein	1868	KU	Kufstein	103,317
706	Landeck	1868	LA	Landeck	43,906
707	Lienz	1868	LZ	Lienz	48,990
708	Reutte	1868	RE	Reutte	31,672
709	Schwaz	1868	SZ	Schwaz	80,305
801	Bludenz	1868	BZ	Bludenz	61,100
802	Bregenz	1868	B	Bregenz	128,568
803	Dornbirn	1969	DO	Dornbirn	84,117
804	Feldkirch	1868	FK	Feldkirch	101,497
901	Wien *	1850	W	*	1,766,746