Sitia scores 79 out of 100 for overall safety — below-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 19,720 people at 27 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 Sitia
31 places, by overall safety
All districts, largest first
- 78SitiaΣητεία9,912
- 79PalaikastroΠαλαικάστρου1,275
- 79PiskokefaloΠισκοκεφάλου781
- 79SkopiΣκοπής774
- 79PevkonΠεύκων763
- 78ZakrosΖάκρου747
- 78ZirosΖίρου462
- 79TourlotiΤουρλωτής420
- 79LithinonΛιθινών346
- 78ApidiaΑπιδίων342
- 79Sfaka LasithiouΣφάκας322
- 78Armenoi LasithiΑρμένων322
- 79AchladiaΑχλαδίων274
- 78PappayannadesΠαππαγιαννάδων268
- 79ChamezioΧαμεζίου253
- 79Exo MoulianaΈξω Μουλιανών247
- 79Messa MoulianaΜέσα Μουλιανών238
- 78Chandra LasithiouΧανδρά226
- 79Roussa EklissiaΡούσσας Εκκλησίας213
- 79ChrysopigisΧρυσοπηγής190
- 78Aghios Georgios SitiasΑγίου Γεωργίου Σητείας182
- 78StavromenosΣταυρωμένου161
- 79LastrosΛάστρου157
- 79MaroniaΜαρωνίας152
- 79Myrsini LasithiouΜυρσίνης147
- 79KryaΚρυών128
- 78PerivolakiaΠεριβολακίων103
- 78KatsidonioΚατσιδωνίου96
- 78KarydiΚαρυδίου86
- 78Agia Triada LasithiΑγίας Τριάδος77
- 78PressosΠραισού56
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 Sitia safe?
Sitia (Σητεία) scores 79 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 Sitia is. That works out to about 229 property offences and 46.6 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.
Is Sitia safe at night?
Sitia 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 Sitia compare with the rest of Lasithi?
Sitia scores 79 out of 100 for overall safety, against 76 for Lasithi as a whole — safer than its surroundings.