Irakleio scores 32 out of 100 for overall safety — above-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 49,642 people at 11,034 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.
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The number on the right is how many people live there. The one on the left is its safety score out of 100.
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Questions people ask
Is Irakleio safe?
Irakleio (Ηράκλειο Αττικής) scores 32 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 Irakleio is and by documented local reporting. That works out to about 2,405 property offences and 152.5 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.
Is Irakleio safe at night?
Irakleio 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 Irakleio compare with the rest of North Athens?
Irakleio scores 32 out of 100 for overall safety, against 42 for North Athens as a whole — worse than its surroundings.