Gavdos scores 83 out of 100 for property crime — very low crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 152 people at 4 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.
Districts in Gavdos
1 place, by property crime
All districts, 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.
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Questions people ask
Is Gavdos safe?
Gavdos (Γαύδος) scores 83 out of 100 for property crime on SafetyMap — very low 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 Gavdos is. That works out to about 212 property offences and 30.2 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.
Is Gavdos safe at night?
Gavdos is among the lower-crime areas of Greece, and the usual precautions — well-lit streets, valuables out of sight — are enough after dark.
How does Gavdos compare with the rest of Chania?
Gavdos scores 83 out of 100 for property crime, against 76 for Chania as a whole — safer than its surroundings.