Crime and safety in South Athens
Νότιος Τομέας Αθηνών · Regional unit
Modelled estimate — how it is madeSouth Athens scores 54 out of 100 for overall safety — average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 529,826 people.
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.
Municipalities in South Athens
8 places, by overall safety
All municipalities, largest first
- 44KallitheaΚαλλιθέα100,641
- 63GlyfadaΓλυφάδα87,305
- 55Nea SmyrniΝέα Σμύρνη73,076
- 60Agios DimitriosΆγιος Δημήτριος71,294
- 55Palaio FaliroΠαλαιό Φάληρο64,021
- 61Elliniko-ArgyroupoliΕλληνικό-Αργυρούπολη51,356
- 64AlimosΆλιμος41,720
- 45Moschato-TavrosΜοσχάτο-Ταύρος40,413
The number on the right is how many people live there. The one on the left is its safety score out of 100.
Neighbouring regional units
Questions people ask
Is South Athens safe?
South Athens (Νότιος Τομέας Αθηνών) scores 54 out of 100 for overall safety on SafetyMap — 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 South Athens is. That works out to about 990 property offences and 73.4 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.
Is South Athens safe at night?
South Athens is average for Greece: fine for most people after dark, with the ordinary care you would take in any neighbourhood of Greece late at night.
How does South Athens compare with the rest of Greece?
South Athens scores 54 out of 100 for overall safety, on a scale where 50 is the Greek national offence rate.