Kastella scores 38 out of 100 for overall safety — above-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 11,640 people at 13,556 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 Kastella is actually like
The hill above Mikrolimano, and the prettiest thing in Piraeus: neoclassical houses, stepped lanes, Profitis Ilias church and the Veakeio at the top, cafes along Papanastasiou and around Idis. Mikrolimano below is a fishing cove turned restaurant row. Settled and middle-class; visitors come for the view and dinner.
After dark
Well-lit and busy on the promenade and the stairways down to Mikrolimano. On 23 May 2026 at about 05:30, police checking a man outside a Mikrolimano shop shot and wounded him; six hand grenades and a loaded magazine were recovered. A targeted dawn encounter, not a hazard to diners.
Staying here
The nicest place to sleep in Piraeus and safe to walk, but a hilly 25-30 minutes from the ferry gates, with steps. Fine for a night or two; poor for a 06:00 departure unless you pre-book a taxi.
Reputation against reality. Kastella's reputation is if anything better than the rest of Piraeus deserves, and it is fairly earned.
Streets and squares: Papanastasiou · Idis · Mikrolimano · Profitis Ilias
Other neighbourhoods in Piraeus
Nearby municipalities
Questions people ask
Is Kastella safe?
Kastella (Καστέλλα) scores 38 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 Kastella is. That works out to about 1,453 property offences and 148.8 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.
Is Kastella safe at night?
Kastella 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 Kastella compare with the rest of Piraeus?
Kastella scores 38 out of 100 for overall safety, against 37 for Piraeus as a whole — about the same as its surroundings.