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Crime and safety in Kavala

Καβάλα · Municipality

Modelled estimate — how it is made
76/100

Kavala scores 76 out of 100 for overall safety — below-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 70,501 people at 196 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.

Questions people ask

Is Kavala safe?

Kavala (Καβάλα) scores 76 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 Kavala is and by documented local reporting. That works out to about 299 property offences and 44.7 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.

Is Kavala safe at night?

Kavala 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 Kavala compare with the rest of Kavala and Thasos?

Kavala scores 76 out of 100 for overall safety, against 74 for Kavala and Thasos as a whole — safer than its surroundings.

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