Evangelistria scores 39 out of 100 for property crime — above-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 11,307 people at 13,556 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 Evangelistria is actually like
A dense central district just above Pasalimani, named for its church, built with the neighbouring old people's home at the end of the 19th century. Its axes are Leoforos Grigoriou Lampraki and Tzavella, which climbs toward Kastella hill, meeting at the church. One of the most heavily populated parts of the city, with many students because the University of Piraeus sits alongside it at Karaoli & Dimitriou 80.
After dark
Student-flavoured and reasonably lively on Lampraki and around the university; the steeper residential lanes toward Kastella go quiet. Nothing documented specifically here in 2024-26.
Staying here
Central, cheap and a short walk down to Zea or across to Dimotiko Theatro metro. A sensible mid-range base before a ferry, especially if you want to eat somewhere that is not a port kebab shop.
Streets and squares: Grigoriou Lampraki · Tzavella · Karaoli & Dimitriou
Other neighbourhoods in Piraeus
Nearby municipalities
Questions people ask
Is Evangelistria safe?
Evangelistria (Ευαγγελίστρια) scores 39 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 Evangelistria is. That works out to about 1,454 property offences and 148.3 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.
Is Evangelistria safe at night?
Evangelistria 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 Evangelistria compare with the rest of Piraeus?
Evangelistria scores 39 out of 100 for property crime, against 38 for Piraeus as a whole — about the same as its surroundings.