Krya Iteon 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 2,508 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 Krya Iteon is actually like
A neighbourhood in the southern municipal district beside the Glafkos river. It was empty ground until the Asia Minor catastrophe, when the fourth refugee settlement in Patras was created here and many refugees were housed. Today it is plain residential: the newly built parish church of Saints Anthony and Charalambos, the 19th Gymnasium of Patras and the Glafkos indoor sports hall sit here among post-war blocks and older houses. Nobody visits. Against Prosfygika, the first and much more heavily policed refugee settlement, Krya Iteon has no documented crime profile at all — a useful reminder that the refugee-settlement origin is not the variable that matters.
After dark
Quiet residential streets with the river corridor and the sports hall surroundings dark outside event nights. Little late footfall. No documented incidents, patrol priorities or burglary listings name Krya Iteon.
What to watch for
- The Glafkos river corridor after dark
- Quiet surroundings of the sports hall outside event nights
- Standard home security
Staying here
Little to book and nothing to see, so not a sensible short-stay choice. It is on the southern side, which shortens the run to the Italy ferries slightly, but take a taxi to the South Port gates.
Reputation against reality. Krya Iteon is sometimes lumped in with Prosfygika because both began as refugee settlements. The police and press record of 2024-2026 separates them clearly: Prosfygika appears repeatedly, Krya Iteon not at all.
Streets and squares: Glafkos indoor sports hall
Other neighbourhoods in Patras
Nearby municipalities
Questions people ask
Is Krya Iteon safe?
Krya Iteon (Κρύα Ιτεών) 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 Krya Iteon is. That works out to about 663 property offences and 112.8 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.
Is Krya Iteon safe at night?
Krya Iteon 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 Krya Iteon compare with the rest of Patras?
Krya Iteon scores 52 out of 100 for overall safety, against 51 for Patras as a whole — about the same as its surroundings.