Statutory city (Austria)
Code Name Est License plate Population 2017
101 Eisenstadt 1921 E 14,339
102 Rust 1921 E 1,900
201 Klagenfurt 1850 K 99,790
202 Villach 1932 VI 61,662
301 Krems 1938 KS 24,627
302 Sankt Pölten 1922 P 54,213
303 Waidhofen an der Ybbs 1868 WY 11,393
304 Wiener Neustadt 1866 WN 44,461
401 Linz 1866 L 203,012
402 Steyr 1867 SR 38,324
403 Wels 1964 WE 60,739
501 Salzburg 1869 S 152,367
601 Graz 1850 G 283,869
701 Innsbruck 1850 I 132,236
901 Wien 1850 W 1,867,582
List of current statutory cities
The code column identifies each city 's district code ( Bezirkskennzahl ) , Est . means the year of becoming the status of statutory city .
In Austrian politics, a statutory city (German: Stadt mit eigenem Statut or Statutarstadt) is a city that is vested, in addition to its purview as a municipality, with the powers and duties of a district administrative authority. The city administration thus functions as both a municipal government and a branch of the executive arm of the national government. As resident of a statutory city would, for example, contact a city office and interact with city employees to apply for a driver license or a passport. As of 2017, there are 15 statutory cities. A few statutory cities are barely more than villages, but most are major regional population centers with residents numbering in the tens of thousands. The median statutory city has a population of about sixty thousand.