Profitis Daniil 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 9,757 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 Profitis Daniil is actually like
Profitis Daniil sits at the western edge of the Municipality of Athens, bordering Votanikos, Akadimia Platonos, Kolonos, Sepolia, the Rouf area and the municipality of Aigaleo, and takes its name from the church on Leoforos Athinon. It is a low-rise mix of workshops, warehouses, small industry and modest housing on the city's industrial belt.
After dark
Industrial and thinly populated once the workshops shut, with long stretches of blank frontage, poor lighting and very little passing footfall. This is the western manufacturing edge, not a residential centre with people on the street.
What to watch for
- Industrial frontage on and around Leoforos Athinon: long blank stretches, poor lighting and almost no passing footfall once the workshops close
- Inadequate street lighting was raised for neighbouring Kolonos at the Athens municipal council on 20 April 2026, alongside damaged road surface in Votanikos and broken pavements in Sepolia
- It sits just west of the Omonia / Metaxourgeio / Agios Pavlos / Vathi / Kerameikos zone, which the Hellenic Police name as a 2026 target sector
- Heavy lorry traffic and few pedestrian crossings
Staying here
There is no reason for a visitor to book here and nothing walkable to see. Anyone offered a conspicuously cheap let in this area should treat the price as the explanation.
Reputation against reality. Frequently confused with the eastern districts because of the saint's name. It belongs with Votanikos, Kolonos and Sepolia — a different half of the city with a different risk profile from Pangrati or Ilisia.
Streets and squares: Leoforos Athinon · Iera Odos (nearby) · Konstantinoupoleos (nearby)
Other neighbourhoods in Athens
Nearby municipalities
Questions people ask
Is Profitis Daniil safe?
Profitis Daniil (Προφήτης Δανιήλ) 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 Profitis Daniil is. That works out to about 1,815 property offences and 176 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.
Is Profitis Daniil safe at night?
Profitis Daniil 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 Profitis Daniil compare with the rest of Athens?
Profitis Daniil scores 34 out of 100 for property crime, against 27 for Athens as a whole — safer than its surroundings.