Ilioupoli scores 45 out of 100 for property crime — average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 8,100 people at 4,111 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 Ilioupoli is actually like
A residential neighbourhood of the Stavroupoli unit, split in local usage into Ano and Kato Ilioupoli. It appears by name in one piece of reporting that matters: the February 2024 account of a wave of shop break-ins across western Thessaloniki listed Ilioupoli alongside Kordelio, Evosmos, Ampelokipoi and Polichni. Beyond that it is unremarkable dense housing with neighbourhood shops. Note the name is shared with a much larger Athens suburb and with Kato Ilioupoli in Evosmos, which muddies searches badly.
After dark
The documented overnight issue is break-ins at shopfronts rather than street crime. Residential blocks are quiet; commercial frontages are the exposed thing once shutters are down.
What to watch for
- Overnight shopfront break-ins
- Name confusion with Ilioupoli in Athens and Kato Ilioupoli in Evosmos
Staying here
No reason to - purely residential, nothing for visitors, slow connections to the centre.
Other neighbourhoods in Pavlos Melas
Nearby municipalities
Questions people ask
Is Ilioupoli safe?
Ilioupoli (Ηλιούπολη) scores 45 out of 100 for property crime on SafetyMap — 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 Ilioupoli is. That works out to about 1,140 property offences and 100.2 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.
Is Ilioupoli safe at night?
Ilioupoli is average for Greece: fine for most people after dark, with the ordinary care you would take in any neighbourhood of Pavlos Melas late at night.
How does Ilioupoli compare with the rest of Pavlos Melas?
Ilioupoli scores 45 out of 100 for property crime, against 42 for Pavlos Melas as a whole — safer than its surroundings.