Ellinoroson scores 34 out of 100 for property crime — above-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 8,087 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 Ellinoroson is actually like
Ellinoroson is a small urban extension of Ampelokipoi in the 7th municipal district, north of the junction of Katechaki and Mesogeion avenues and running up to the Neo Psychiko boundary. It was settled by Greek refugees from Russia, which gives it its name, and it borders Erythros Stavros, Girokomeio, Ampelokipoi and Neo Psychiko. Its main streets are Karatheodori and Adrianiou, the latter named after the Hadrianic aqueduct that ran through here.
After dark
Quiet, suburban in feel and almost entirely residential, with no bar strip and little through traffic. Katechaki metro is the practical link in and out.
What to watch for
- Fast traffic on Leoforos Katechaki and Leoforos Mesogeion, with long gaps between pedestrian crossings
- Almost no street life after dark — residential blocks and office frontage, nothing open late
- Katechaki metro is the only practical link; miss the last train and it is a taxi
Staying here
Safe and well connected for commuting, but far from the sights and with nothing on the doorstep. Only worth booking for a work trip in the Mesogeion office corridor or a long-term relocation.
Reputation against reality. Effectively unknown outside Athens and absent from every safety discussion. Most listings will sell it as Ampelokipoi or Neo Psychiko.
Streets and squares: Karatheodori · Adrianiou · Leoforos Katechaki · Leoforos Mesogeion
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Questions people ask
Is Ellinoroson safe?
Ellinoroson (Ελληνορώσων) scores 34 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 Ellinoroson is. That works out to about 1,836 property offences and 175.2 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.
Is Ellinoroson safe at night?
Ellinoroson 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 Ellinoroson compare with the rest of Athens?
Ellinoroson scores 34 out of 100 for property crime, against 27 for Athens as a whole — safer than its surroundings.