Ano Nea Politeia 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 10,719 people at 7,743 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 Ano Nea Politeia is actually like
The part of Nea Politeia above the ring road, described in Greek sources as only beginning to be built up. That makes it the least finished part of the municipality: half-developed plots, new blocks with gaps between them, and roads that do not yet form a continuous street network. It also sits squarely in the zone the police describe as above the Kordelio-Evosmos peripheral road, where repeated 2025 and 2026 operations stopped large numbers of people and vehicles.
After dark
The weakest streetscape in the municipality - incomplete frontages, few overlooking windows and thin lighting. The caution here is about isolation and half-built surroundings rather than any specific documented incident in this sub-area.
What to watch for
- Half-built blocks and vacant plots with no overlooking
- Poor lighting and discontinuous footways
- Part of the zone repeatedly targeted by police vehicle and person checks
Staying here
No. Incomplete infrastructure, no visitor facilities and awkward to reach.
Streets and squares: Perifereiaki Odos Kordeliou-Evosmou (ring road)
Other neighbourhoods in Kordelio-Evosmos
Nearby municipalities
Questions people ask
Is Ano Nea Politeia safe?
Ano Nea Politeia (Άνω Νέα Πολιτεία) 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 Ano Nea Politeia is. That works out to about 1,067 property offences and 99 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.
Is Ano Nea Politeia safe at night?
Ano Nea Politeia is average for Greece: fine for most people after dark, with the ordinary care you would take in any neighbourhood of Kordelio-Evosmos late at night.
How does Ano Nea Politeia compare with the rest of Kordelio-Evosmos?
Ano Nea Politeia scores 48 out of 100 for overall safety, against 43 for Kordelio-Evosmos as a whole — safer than its surroundings.