Eglykada scores 48 out of 100 for property crime — average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 5,233 people at 618 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 Eglykada is actually like
A large south-eastern district of about 5,000 residents, containing the sub-neighbourhoods Tzoleika, Politeika and Peukiotisa and two squares, Al. Dimopoulou and Agios Andreas. It mixes rapid residential development, detached houses on quiet lanes and a working industrial fringe of factories and workshops, and it is where the Riganokampos settlement sits on the city's eastern edge — Riganokampos is not a district in its own right in our data, and of the names on this list Eglykada is the one that contains and abuts it, with Perivola on its other side. Against Koukouli and Perivola it is bigger, more industrial and much more often named by police.
After dark
Mixed. The detached-house lanes are calm; the industrial fringe and the approaches to the eastern edge are dark and empty. Eglykada was one of six districts placed under targeted police patrols in July 2025 and is named repeatedly in burglary reporting through May 2026. Guides record locals naming it as an area to be careful in.
What to watch for
- Residential burglary — Eglykada is named as a high-risk zone in two separate 2026 burglary reports
- Daytime break-ins while residents are at work, the pattern police describe for house burglaries
- The dark industrial fringe and the eastern approaches toward Riganokampos after dark
- Isolated detached houses on the outer lanes
Staying here
No for a short visit — it is 4-5 km out with nothing to see and a burglary-hotspot listing. Fine as a longer rental if you take home security seriously. Not a base for an early Italy ferry.
Reputation against reality. Eglykada's reputation is driven by property crime, not street crime. Nothing in the record suggests a pedestrian risk here; the documented pattern is daytime and night-time burglary of houses.
Streets and squares: Plateia Al. Dimopoulou · Plateia Agiou Andrea (Eglykada)
Other neighbourhoods in Patras
Nearby municipalities
Questions people ask
Is Eglykada safe?
Eglykada (Εγλυκάδα) scores 48 out of 100 for property crime 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 Eglykada is and by documented local reporting. That works out to about 992 property offences and 73.8 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.
Is Eglykada safe at night?
Eglykada is average for Greece: fine for most people after dark, with the ordinary care you would take in any neighbourhood of Patras late at night.
How does Eglykada compare with the rest of Patras?
Eglykada scores 48 out of 100 for property crime, against 55 for Patras as a whole — worse than its surroundings.