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
Towns and islands
Written notes on the places visitors ask about most, each with its sources: what the place is like, what changes after dark and where to stay.
- Is Heraklion safe?Ordinary precautions63
- Is Peristeri safe?Fine by day, care after dark35
- Is Rhodes safe?Fine by day, care after dark58
- Is Chania safe?Ordinary precautions72
- Is Keratsini-Drapetsona safe?Ordinary precautions38
- Is Kalamata safe?Ordinary precautions64
- Is Corfu safe?Ordinary precautions75
- Is Rethymno safe?Fine by day, care after dark73
- Is Zakynthos safe?Fine by day, care after dark48
- Is Dafni-Ymittos safe?Ordinary precautions48
- Is Kos safe?Ordinary precautions63
- Is Koropi safe?Ordinary precautions63
- Is Aspropyrgos safe?Fine by day, care after dark19
- Is Aegina safe?Ordinary precautions81
- Is Amorgos safe?A good place to stay88
Guides to the police figures
- Is crime rising in Greece? Police figures year by year, 2021–2024Burglary, theft, vehicle theft, assault and robbery per 100,000 residents in Greece and every regional unit, year by year from 2021 to 2024 (Eurostat).
- Crime in Greece by region: what the police figures showBurglary, theft, car theft, assault, robbery and homicide per 100,000 residents in every Greek regional unit, from police records (Eurostat, 2021–2024).
- Burglary, theft and car theft in Greece: where the rates are highestWhere property crime is recorded most and least in Greece: burglary, theft and vehicle theft per 100,000 residents by regional unit (Eurostat, 2021–2024).
- Assault, robbery and homicide in Greece by regionPolice-recorded violent crime in every Greek regional unit: assault, robbery and intentional homicide per 100,000 residents (Eurostat, 2021–2024).
- Crime on the Greek islands: why per-resident rates misleadCrime on Crete, the Cyclades, the Dodecanese, the Ionian and North Aegean islands, compared with the mainland — and what tourism does to the rates.
- Athens, Thessaloniki and Patras: how Greece's largest cities compareBurglary, theft, car theft, assault, robbery and homicide in Attica, Thessaloniki, Achaea (Patras), Heraklion and Larissa — Eurostat, 2021–2024.
What's new
Five more places: Athens suburbs and Amorgos
Koropi, Dafni-Ymittos, Aspropyrgos, Keratsini-Drapetsona and the island of Amorgos have written notes of their own, each with its sources. The Spanish pages now ask whether a place is safe in words that agree with every place name.
Notes on towns and islands, and four years of police figures
Chania, Heraklion, Rhodes, Corfu and other towns and islands people ask about now have a written note of their own, with its sources: what the place is like, what changes after dark, what to watch for and where to stay. Every regional unit's page now shows its police-recorded crime year by year, 2021 to 2024, next to Greece as a whole, and a new guide asks whether crime is rising, region by region. Place pages now open with their text under a shorter map.
Each regional unit's own police figures
Every regional unit's page lists its Eurostat figures offence by offence — burglary, theft, vehicle theft, assault, robbery and homicide — against the rate for Greece and with its rank among the regions. Every score now says whether it is measured from police records, apportioned from Attica's total, or modelled.
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.