Petralona 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 5,933 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 Petralona is actually like
The strip between Ano and Kato Petralona, on the slope below Filopappou. Same neighbourhood in everything but name: 1930s refugee housing, tavernas around the station, and one of the few parts of central Athens that still feels lived-in rather than let out.
After dark
Quiet residential streets with a handful of tavernas keeping them populated until late. The Filopappou footpaths above are the exception and are not a night route.
What to watch for
- The unlit Filopappou and Pnyx footpaths above the neighbourhood, named as a target sector in the 2026 Hellenic Police patrol plan
- Ordinary bag theft at Petralona metro station
Staying here
A calm, cheap base a short metro ride from the centre, and within walking distance of the Acropolis by daylight.
Streets and squares: Troon · Dimofontos · Kallisthenous · Plateia Merkouri
Other neighbourhoods in Athens
Nearby municipalities
Questions people ask
Is Petralona safe?
Petralona (Πετράλωνα) 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 Petralona is and by documented local reporting. That works out to about 2,739 property offences and 176.8 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.
Is Petralona safe at night?
Petralona 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 Petralona compare with the rest of Athens?
Petralona scores 24 out of 100 for property crime, against 27 for Athens as a whole — worse than its surroundings.