Agios Nikolaos scores 24 out of 100 for property crime — above-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 10,477 people at 16,579 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 Agios Nikolaos is actually like
A dense district built around the church and square of Agios Nikolaos, with Acharnon as its commercial spine and its own ISAP station on Line 1. It was middle-class, then older residents left and migrant households moved in, drawn by cheap older flats and the transport. It functions as a working local high street: bakeries, phone shops, ethnic groceries, the Saturday market. Very few outsiders come here on purpose.
After dark
The square and the Acharnon shops thin out after closing and the area is named in the current police plan as a drug-trafficking focus, so the late-night picture on and around the square is the district's real problem.
What to watch for
- Plateia Agiou Nikolaou, named in the Hellenic Police 2026 plan as a drug-dealing spot alongside Victoria, Attiki and Amerikis
- Chain-snatching at Agios Nikolaos ISAP station — one of the stations worked by the gang broken up with 21 arrests
- Acharnon after shop-closing, largely shuttered with little footfall
- Unlicensed street vending and crowding around the Acharnon market days
Staying here
Not a place to book. Line 1 puts you at Omonia quickly and the flats are cheap, but you would be staying in a police priority sector with nothing for a visitor in exchange.
Reputation against reality. Note the name clash: there is also a Plateia Agiou Nikolaou in the separate Municipality of Acharnes, well north of the city, which appears in unrelated police reports. The square in the Athens petty-crime plan is this one, off Acharnon street.
Streets and squares: Acharnon · Plateia Agiou Nikolaou · Leoforos Ionias · Agiou Nikolaou church
Other neighbourhoods in Athens
Nearby municipalities
Questions people ask
Is Agios Nikolaos safe?
Agios Nikolaos (Άγιος Νικόλαος) scores 24 out of 100 for property crime 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 Agios Nikolaos is and by documented local reporting. That works out to about 2,773 property offences and 265.6 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.
Is Agios Nikolaos safe at night?
Agios Nikolaos 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 Agios Nikolaos compare with the rest of Athens?
Agios Nikolaos scores 24 out of 100 for property crime, against 27 for Athens as a whole — worse than its surroundings.