Thymarakia 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 8,578 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 Thymarakia is actually like
A tight residential wedge between Agios Nikolaos, Sepolia, Kolonos and Kato Patisia, built up first by self-construction on former farmland and then conventionally, with Liosion as its spine. It is unusually cut off for a central district — the railway isolates it from its neighbours — and it has almost no free public space beyond Plateia Athanasiou Diakou. Traffic from the Liosion coach terminal loads its narrow streets.
After dark
Plain residential quiet away from Liosion; the avenue itself carries coach and through traffic all night, and the rail-side streets are dark and unused.
What to watch for
- Liosion avenue traffic and its poorly maintained pavements
- Isolation from neighbouring districts because of the railway barrier, so few natural through-routes on foot at night
- Coach terminal environs at the northern end
Staying here
Not a visitor area — no hotels, no sights, awkward walking. Perfectly liveable as a cheap central address if you can tolerate the traffic and the lack of green space.
Reputation against reality. Absent from both the police plan and travel-safety writing. Residents' documented complaints are cleanliness, broken pavements and missing amenities rather than crime.
Streets and squares: Liosion · Plateia Athanasiou Diakou · Konstantinoupoleos · Leoforos N. Ionias
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Questions people ask
Is Thymarakia safe?
Thymarakia (Θυμαράκια) 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 Thymarakia is. That works out to about 1,827 property offences and 175.3 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.
Is Thymarakia safe at night?
Thymarakia 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 Thymarakia compare with the rest of Athens?
Thymarakia scores 33 out of 100 for overall safety, against 25 for Athens as a whole — safer than its surroundings.