Property crime in Vrachneika
Δημοτική Κοινότητα Βραχναιίκων · District
Modelled estimate — how it is madeVrachneika scores 57 out of 100 for property crime — average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 2,664 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 Vrachneika is actually like
The seat of its own municipal unit, a coastal suburb on the southern shore road out of Patras, with a permanent population, a beach and a summer-house belt. It is one of the few outlying settlements with a documented crime profile: police name it among the consistently high-risk zones for residential burglaries, and a coastal burglary ring worked it in 2025-26.
After dark
Quiet out of season, busier along the shore in summer. Empty second homes are the recurring target rather than people on the street.
What to watch for
- Residential burglary — Vrachneika is on the police high-risk list
- Holiday homes left empty; a ring hit coastal houses here in morning hours
- Unlit stretches of the shore road
Staying here
Pleasant for a summer seaside stay with a car. Around 20 minutes' drive south of the centre, so workable for an Italy ferry if you allow time to reach the South Port.
Other neighbourhoods in Patras
Nearby municipalities
Questions people ask
Is Vrachneika safe?
Vrachneika (Δημοτική Κοινότητα Βραχναιίκων) scores 57 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 Vrachneika is. That works out to about 659 property offences and 113.5 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.
Is Vrachneika safe at night?
Vrachneika 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 Vrachneika compare with the rest of Patras?
Vrachneika scores 57 out of 100 for property crime, against 55 for Patras as a whole — safer than its surroundings.