Safety scores for every place in Greece
Crime and safety in Greece, place by place
Every regional unit, municipality and neighbourhood of Greece scored from 0 to 100 for overall, property and violent crime. 50 is the Greek average and higher is safer. 45 of the 52 regional units are measured from police-recorded offence rates; Attica's 7 are apportioned from its total, the levels below are modelled, and every page says which.
- regional units
- 52
- municipalities
- 333
- neighbourhoods
- 6,356
Three maps
How to read a score
The score is absolute, not a ranking: 50 is the offence rate of Greece as a whole, and every doubling of the rate costs the same number of points wherever you are, so two places in different regions can be compared directly.
- 91+Exceptionally low crime
- 80+Very low crime
- 63+Below-average crime
- 43+Average crime
- 20+Above-average crime
- 0+High crime
City guides: areas to avoid and where to stay
Written neighbourhood by neighbourhood from police reporting and the Greek press, with what changes after dark.
Is Athens safe?63 neighbourhoods described25
Is Thessaloniki safe?23 neighbourhoods described29
Is Patras safe?72 neighbourhoods described51
Is Piraeus safe?19 neighbourhoods described37
Is Kalamaria safe?15 neighbourhoods described48
Is Pavlos Melas safe?17 neighbourhoods described45
Is Neapoli-Sykies safe?8 neighbourhoods described31
Is Kordelio-Evosmos safe?7 neighbourhoods described42
Largest municipalities
- 25Athens664,046
- 29Thessaloniki325,182
- 51Patras213,984
- 63Heraklion173,993
- 37Piraeus163,688
- 71Larissa162,591
- 76Volos144,449
- 35Peristeri139,981
- 58Rhodes115,490
- 81Ioannina112,486
- 72Chania108,642
- 26Acharnes106,943
Left: overall safety score out of 100. Right: residents. All 333 municipalities
Regional units
- Achaea55
- Aetolia-Acarnania55
- Argolis and Arcadia65
- Arta and Preveza74
- Boeotia60
- Central Athens29
- Chalkidiki50
- Chania73
- Chios88
- Corfu73
- Corinthia55
- Cyclades51
- Dodecanese (Rhodes, Kos, Kalymnos, Karpathos)59
- Drama91
- East Attica47
- Elis56
- Euboea56
- Evros79
- Evrytania95
- Florina89
- Heraklion66
- Ikaria and Samos69
- Imathia77
- Ioannina82
- Kastoria89
- Kavala and Thasos76
- Kefalonia and Ithaca67
- Kilkis77
- Kozani and Grevena88
- Laconia and Messenia66
- Larissa75
- Lasithi78
- Lefkada59
- Lesbos and Lemnos71
- Magnesia and the Sporades79
- North Athens42
- Pella76
- Phocis66
- Phthiotis55
- Pieria88
- Piraeus and the Islands40
- Rethymno68
- Rhodope72
- Serres73
- South Athens54
- Thesprotia67
- Thessaloniki41
- Trikala and Karditsa86
- West Athens36
- West Attica27
- Xanthi66
- Zakynthos48
What the scores mean
- Measured at the top45 of the 52 regional units are scored from police-recorded offence rates reported to Eurostat, 2021–2024; Attica's 7 are apportioned from its total.
- Modelled belowMunicipalities share out their unit's rate by how built-up they are and by documented local reporting; each municipality's rate is shared out among its neighbourhoods the same way.
- One scale everywhere50 is the Greek average and every doubling of the rate costs the same points, so any two places compare directly.
Questions about the scores
Where does SafetyMap's crime data come from?+
From Eurostat's regional crime statistics (dataset crim_gen_reg): offences recorded by the Hellenic Police per 100,000 inhabitants, averaged over 2021–2024.
Is a neighbourhood score a count of crimes?+
No. Eurostat publishes police figures only down to the regional unit, and Attica only as a whole, so municipality and neighbourhood scores are modelled from their unit's rate. They are estimates, and the page marks them as modelled.
What does a score of 50 mean?+
50 is the offence rate of Greece as a whole. Higher is safer: every doubling of the rate costs a fixed number of points, so scores compare directly across regions.