Kolokynthou scores 33 out of 100 for overall safety — above-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 3,619 people at 16,579 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 Kolokynthou is actually like
A small western neighbourhood between Kolonos, Akadimia Platonos and the boundary with Aigaleo and Peristeri. It was market gardens until a few decades ago, so it was subdivided later and built lower and less densely than Kolonos — more two- and three-storey houses, more yards, fewer eight-floor blocks. It is entirely residential, with a share of workshops and nuisance uses strung along the Lenorman axis.
After dark
Quiet, low-rise and largely unremarkable after dark; the Lenorman end is the busier and rougher edge, the interior streets are simply empty.
What to watch for
- The Lenorman axis, where nuisance uses and workshops concentrate and where guides place the drug-related reputation of the lower Kolonos area
- Very little street lighting or footfall on the interior lanes late at night
- Poor connectivity — the railway corridor and Konstantinoupoleos cut the area off from the rest of the city
Staying here
There is essentially no visitor accommodation and no reason to look for any. It is a place to live cheaply, not to stay.
Reputation against reality. Usually absorbed into 'Kolonos' in both news coverage and travel advice, which overstates its problems; nothing specific to Kolokynthou appears in the 2026 police plan.
Streets and squares: Lenorman · Konstantinoupoleos · Palamidiou
Other neighbourhoods in Athens
Nearby municipalities
Questions people ask
Is Kolokynthou safe?
Kolokynthou (Κολοκυνθού) scores 33 out of 100 for overall safety on SafetyMap — above-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 Kolokynthou is. That works out to about 1,824 property offences and 175.8 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.
Is Kolokynthou safe at night?
Kolokynthou records more crime than most of Greece, so stay on busy, lit streets late at night, keep phones and bags out of sight, and use licensed taxis rather than walking long distances alone.
How does Kolokynthou compare with the rest of Athens?
Kolokynthou scores 33 out of 100 for overall safety, against 25 for Athens as a whole — safer than its surroundings.