Crime and safety in Piraeus and the Islands
Πειραιάς, Νήσοι · Regional unit
Modelled estimate — how it is madePiraeus and the Islands scores 40 out of 100 for overall safety — above-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 523,648 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 Piraeus and the Islands
13 places, by overall safety
All municipalities, largest first
- 37PiraeusΠειραιάς163,688
- 37Nikaia-RentisΝίκαια-Ρέντης105,430
- 37Keratsini-DrapetsonaΚερατσίνι-Δραπετσώνα91,045
- 37KorydallosΚορυδαλλός63,445
- 52SalaminaΣαλαμίνα39,283
- 46PeramaΠέραμα25,389
- 81AeginaΑίγινα13,056
- 89Troizinia-MethanaΤροιζηνία-Μέθανα7,143
- 96KythiraΚύθηρα4,041
- 87SpetsesΣπέτσες4,027
- 84PorosΠόρος3,993
- 95HydraΎδρα1,966
- 93AgkistriΑγκίστρι1,142
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 Piraeus and the Islands safe?
Piraeus and the Islands (Πειραιάς, Νήσοι) scores 40 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 Piraeus and the Islands is. That works out to about 1,356 property offences and 136.5 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.
Is Piraeus and the Islands safe at night?
Piraeus and the Islands 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 Piraeus and the Islands compare with the rest of Greece?
Piraeus and the Islands scores 40 out of 100 for overall safety, on a scale where 50 is the Greek national offence rate.