Crime and safety in Ano Kastritsio
Δημοτική Κοινότητα Άνω Καστριτσίου · District
Modelled estimate — how it is madeAno Kastritsio scores 52 out of 100 for overall safety — average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 832 people at 618 people per km².
The score is absolute, not a ranking: 50 is the offence rate for Greece as a whole, 100 the safest end of the scale and 0 the least safe, and every doubling of the rate costs the same number of points wherever you are. Regional units are scored from Eurostat's police-recorded offence rates per 100,000 inhabitants. Greece publishes nothing finer, so municipalities and districts share out their region's measured rate by how built-up they are and by documented local reporting — treat those two levels as an estimate, not a count of reported crime.
What Ano Kastritsio is actually like
A village and the seat of its community in the Rio municipal unit, 10 km from Patras on the foothills of Panachaiko at 482 m. It is a proper hill village with stone houses, plane trees and views down over the gulf and the bridge, reached by a winding road up from Kato Kastritsi. Walkers and Sunday lunch trade; no incident reporting.
After dark
Silent and very dark, with no lighting away from the square and no through traffic. Nothing documented.
What to watch for
- Winding unlit mountain road up from the coast
- Houses left empty midweek
Staying here
Pleasant as a rural stay with a car, with a handful of guesthouses. No use for an early Italy ferry — allow 40 minutes or more to the South Port.
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Questions people ask
Is Ano Kastritsio safe?
Ano Kastritsio (Δημοτική Κοινότητα Άνω Καστριτσίου) scores 52 out of 100 for overall safety on SafetyMap — average crime, on a scale where 50 is the Greek average. That is based on the police-recorded offence rate of its regional unit, apportioned by how built-up Ano Kastritsio is. That works out to about 650 property offences and 112.5 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.
Is Ano Kastritsio safe at night?
Ano Kastritsio is average for Greece: fine for most people after dark, with the ordinary care you would take in any neighbourhood of Patras late at night.
How does Ano Kastritsio compare with the rest of Patras?
Ano Kastritsio scores 52 out of 100 for overall safety, against 51 for Patras as a whole — about the same as its surroundings.