Ierapetra scores 75 out of 100 for overall safety — below-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 26,200 people at 56 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 Ierapetra
21 places, by overall safety
Most crime
All districts, largest first
- 75IerapetraΙεράπετρα16,139
- 75Anatoli LasithiΑνατολής1,611
- 75Agios Ioannis LasithiΑγίου Ιωάννου1,168
- 76Stavrochori LasithiouΣταυροχωρίου950
- 75Kato ChorioΚάτω Χωρίου946
- 76Agios StefanosΆγιος Στέφανος891
- 75Pachia AmmosΠαχείας Άμμου846
- 75MyrtosΜύρτου620
- 75Municipality of KavousiΚαβουσίου563
- 75KalamafkaΚαλαμαύκας464
- 75SchinokapsalaΣχινοκαψάλων427
- 75MythiΜύθων396
- 75MalesΜαλών302
- 75OreinoΟρεινού224
- 75MourniesΜουρνιών137
- 75MesseleriΜεσελέρων135
- 75MakryliaΜακρυλιάς122
- 75Christou LasithiouΧριστού101
- 75GdochiaΓδοχίων74
- 75RizaΡίζης72
- 75Metaxochori LasithiouΜεταξοχωρίου12
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 Ierapetra safe?
Ierapetra (Ιεράπετρα) scores 75 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 Ierapetra is. That works out to about 260 property offences and 52.5 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.
Is Ierapetra safe at night?
Ierapetra 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 Ierapetra compare with the rest of Lasithi?
Ierapetra scores 75 out of 100 for overall safety, against 76 for Lasithi as a whole — about the same as its surroundings.