The paper is aimed at the presentation of evaluation of the quality of the environment of rural settlements. Is presents the methodology and its application on the example, the rural settlements of the district Trnava. The evaluation consists of a set of indicators from the two basic groups: environmental and socioeconomic. The output of the evaluation was typisation of settlemets on the basis of environmental and socioeconomic conditions. The resulting evaluation have been confronted with the views of mayors of municipalities.