Vyzantio scores 38 out of 100 for property crime — above-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 5,355 people at 12,861 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 Vyzantio is actually like
A small inland residential subdivision of Kalamaria, one of the refugee settlements named after the settlers' origins, now absorbed into the continuous apartment fabric between the centre and the eastern edge. It has no commercial core of its own, no landmark and no separate identity in the way Nea Krini or Aretsou do. There is no crime reporting, travel writing or forum discussion specific to Vyzantio in 2024-2026. Its safety picture is simply Kalamaria's.
After dark
Residential and quiet, with people walking to Kalamaria centre or the seafront for anything after dark. No documented night-time incidents.
What to watch for
- Nothing area-specific is documented
Staying here
Fine but undistinguished. Choose the centre or the seafront instead unless a specific apartment brings you here.
Other neighbourhoods in Kalamaria
Nearby municipalities
Questions people ask
Is Vyzantio safe?
Vyzantio (Βυζάντιο) scores 38 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 Vyzantio is. That works out to about 1,504 property offences and 77.5 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.
Is Vyzantio safe at night?
Vyzantio 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 Vyzantio compare with the rest of Kalamaria?
Vyzantio scores 38 out of 100 for property crime, against 38 for Kalamaria as a whole — about the same as its surroundings.