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Crime and safety in North Athens

Βόρειος Τομέας Αθηνών · Regional unit

42/100

North Athens scores 42 out of 100 for overall safety — above-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 592,490 people.

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.

Municipalities in North Athens

12 places, by overall safety

Safest

Most crime

All municipalities, largest first

The number on the right is how many people live there. The one on the left is its safety score out of 100.

Neighbouring regional units

Questions people ask

Is North Athens safe?

North Athens (Βόρειος Τομέας Αθηνών) scores 42 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 North Athens is. That works out to about 1,599 property offences and 110.1 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.

Is North Athens safe at night?

North Athens 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 North Athens compare with the rest of Greece?

North Athens scores 42 out of 100 for overall safety, on a scale where 50 is the Greek national offence rate.

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