Ano Ilioupoli scores 47 out of 100 for overall safety — average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 4,315 people at 4,111 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 Ilioupoli is actually like
The upper half of Ilioupoli, on the higher ground of the Stavroupoli unit. It is listed in municipal and encyclopaedic sources as a distinct neighbourhood but has no separate coverage in police releases, Greek press or travel writing - the 2024 shop break-in reporting names Ilioupoli without distinguishing upper from lower. This is dense residential Thessaloniki with corner shops and no centre of its own. There is nothing area-specific to report, and no basis for treating it differently from Stavroupoli as a whole.
After dark
Quiet, residential, steeply laid out and dark on the back streets. No documented incidents specific to Ano Ilioupoli.
What to watch for
- Nothing area-specific is documented beyond the wider Stavroupoli shop break-in pattern
Staying here
No. Residential only, with no visitor infrastructure.
Other neighbourhoods in Pavlos Melas
Nearby municipalities
Questions people ask
Is Ano Ilioupoli safe?
Ano Ilioupoli (Άνω Ηλιούπολη) scores 47 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 Ilioupoli is. That works out to about 1,139 property offences and 100.1 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.
Is Ano Ilioupoli safe at night?
Ano Ilioupoli is average for Greece: fine for most people after dark, with the ordinary care you would take in any neighbourhood of Pavlos Melas late at night.
How does Ano Ilioupoli compare with the rest of Pavlos Melas?
Ano Ilioupoli scores 47 out of 100 for overall safety, against 46 for Pavlos Melas as a whole — about the same as its surroundings.