Property crime in Kato Kastritsi
Δημοτική Κοινότητα Κάτω Καστριτσίου · District
Modelled estimate — how it is madeKato Kastritsi scores 58 out of 100 for property crime — average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 1,046 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 Kato Kastritsi is actually like
A community of the Rio municipal unit built on the foothills of Mount Panachaiko at 96 m, bordering Rio, the University of Patras and Ano Kastritsi. A hillside settlement of detached houses with views over the gulf, part of the university's residential hinterland. It has one documented crime link: a convicted burglar was tied to break-ins here.
After dark
Quiet and dark on the hillside lanes, with no late footfall. The documented risk is burglary of houses, not street crime.
What to watch for
- Residential burglary — one arrested gang member was linked to 12 break-ins in Rio and Kato Kastritsi in 2024-25
- Isolated hillside houses; unlit approach lanes
Staying here
Reasonable and quiet if you are here for the university and have a car. Far from the Italy ferry gates, so not a base for an early sailing.
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Questions people ask
Is Kato Kastritsi safe?
Kato Kastritsi (Δημοτική Κοινότητα Κάτω Καστριτσίου) scores 58 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 Kato Kastritsi is. That works out to about 652 property offences and 114 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.
Is Kato Kastritsi safe at night?
Kato Kastritsi 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 Kato Kastritsi compare with the rest of Patras?
Kato Kastritsi scores 58 out of 100 for property crime, against 55 for Patras as a whole — safer than its surroundings.