Kentro scores 48 out of 100 for overall safety — average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 12,899 people at 12,861 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 Kentro is actually like
Kalamaria's own commercial core around Plateia Skra and the municipal buildings - the densest part of the municipality, with the shops, cafes and services. This is where Kalamaria's one sustained, well-documented safety story sits. Through 2025 the municipality hired a private security company to patrol the centre after repeated damage and theft affecting homes, shops and parked cars, and ERT broadcast footage of minors forcing a shopfront. Police followed with repeated juvenile-delinquency sweeps into 2026.
After dark
The problem is concentrated in night hours, mainly Fridays and weekends, involving groups of young people in dark clothing and hoods who damage property and have threatened shopkeepers who confront them. This is property crime and intimidation rather than attacks on passers-by.
What to watch for
- Property damage and theft on Friday and weekend nights
- Confronting groups - shopkeepers who did have been threatened
- Items left visible in parked cars
Staying here
Yes, with normal city sense. Well-lit, busy, metro-connected and heavily patrolled; the documented pattern targets property, not visitors on the street.
Streets and squares: Plateia Skra
Other neighbourhoods in Kalamaria
Nearby municipalities
Questions people ask
Is Kentro safe?
Kentro (Κέντρο) scores 48 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 Kentro is. That works out to about 1,505 property offences and 77.6 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.
Is Kentro safe at night?
Kentro is average for Greece: fine for most people after dark, with the ordinary care you would take in any neighbourhood of Kalamaria late at night.
How does Kentro compare with the rest of Kalamaria?
Kentro scores 48 out of 100 for overall safety, against 48 for Kalamaria as a whole — about the same as its surroundings.