Karpathos scores 64 out of 100 for overall safety — below-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 6,226 people at 19 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.
Districts in Karpathos
10 places, by overall safety
All districts, largest first
- 64KarpathosΚάρπαθος2,788
- 64MenetesΜενετών662
- 64ArkassaΑρκάσας564
- 65OlymposΟλύμπου556
- 64MesochoriΜεσοχωρίου371
- 64AperioΑπερίου355
- 64OthosΌθους281
- 64VoladaΒωλάδας264
- 64PylesΠυλών216
- 64SpoaΣπόων169
The number on the right is how many people live there. The one on the left is its safety score out of 100.
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Questions people ask
Is Karpathos safe?
Karpathos (Κάρπαθος) scores 64 out of 100 for overall safety on SafetyMap — below-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 Karpathos is. That works out to about 418 property offences and 73.4 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.
Is Karpathos safe at night?
Karpathos is among the lower-crime areas of Greece, and the usual precautions — well-lit streets, valuables out of sight — are enough after dark.
How does Karpathos compare with the rest of Dodecanese (Rhodes, Kos, Kalymnos, Karpathos)?
Karpathos scores 64 out of 100 for overall safety, against 58 for Dodecanese (Rhodes, Kos, Kalymnos, Karpathos) as a whole — safer than its surroundings.