Thessaloniki scores 37 out of 100 for property crime — above-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 1,110,551 people.
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.
Municipalities in Thessaloniki
14 places, by property crime
All municipalities, largest first
- 29ThessalonikiΘεσσαλονίκη325,182
- 39Kordelio-EvosmosΚορδελιό-Εύοσμος101,753
- 42Pavlos MelasΠαύλος Μελάς99,245
- 38KalamariaΚαλαμαριά91,518
- 30Neapoli-SykiesΝεάπολη-Συκιές84,741
- 51Pylaia-ChortiatisΠυλαία-Χορτιάτης70,110
- 46ThermiΘέρμη53,201
- 41Ampelokipoi-MenemeniΑμπελόκηποι-Μενεμένη52,127
- 42ThermaikosΘερμαϊκός50,264
- 54DeltaΔέλτα45,839
- 52LagkadasΛαγκαδάς41,103
- 45OraiokastroΩραιόκαστρο38,317
- 37ChalkidonaΧαλκηδόνα33,673
- 62VolviΒόλβη23,478
The number on the right is how many people live there. The one on the left is its safety score out of 100.
Neighbouring regional units
Questions people ask
Which areas of Thessaloniki should I avoid?
No part of Thessaloniki is off limits by daylight. The list below says which blocks change after dark.
Is Thessaloniki safe at night?
Mostly, yes. Violent crime against visitors is rare and the usual problem is theft. What changes after dark is specific rather than general — a handful of named squares and streets — and each neighbourhood below says what its own version of that is.
Where should I stay in Thessaloniki?
Each neighbourhood entry below says whether it is worth booking a room there.
Is Thessaloniki safe?
Thessaloniki (Θεσσαλονίκη) scores 37 out of 100 for property crime on SafetyMap — above-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the Greek average. That is based on police-recorded offence rates reported to Eurostat for 2021–2024. That works out to about 1,588 property offences and 111.6 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.
How does Thessaloniki compare with the rest of Greece?
Thessaloniki scores 37 out of 100 for property crime, on a scale where 50 is the Greek national offence rate.