Kastelocampos scores 60 out of 100 for violent crime — average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 3,045 people at 618 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 Kastelocampos is actually like
A northern suburb about 8 km from the centre by road, bordering Rio, Proastio and Dafnes and the University of Patras campus. This is the heart of the university and hospital belt: campus buildings and student housing on one side, the coast road and a strip of detached houses, apartments and seafront tavernas on the other, with a resident mix of academics, staff, students and commuting families. People come for the campus, the beach and the tavernas. Against Rio next door it is quieter and more residential; against Proastio it is more institutional. Its documented problem is burglary of houses.
After dark
Campus and student housing keep some activity going; the residential lanes and the seafront are quiet, and lighting off the main roads is limited. Kastelokampos is named in police data as a consistently high-risk zone for residential burglaries, and a police operation targeting drugs covered Rio and Kastelokampos.
What to watch for
- Residential burglary — Kastelokampos is on the police high-risk list
- Daytime break-ins while residents are at work, the documented pattern
- Unlit residential lanes and the coast road away from the tavernas
- Bags and laptops on campus and around student housing
Staying here
Reasonable if you have university or hospital business, with rooms and apartments along the coast. Poor for an early Italy ferry: you are 8 km north of the centre and about 12 km from the South Port gates.
Streets and squares: University of Patras campus
Other neighbourhoods in Patras
Nearby municipalities
Questions people ask
Is Kastelocampos safe?
Kastelocampos (Καστελόκαμπος) scores 60 out of 100 for violent 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 Kastelocampos is and by documented local reporting. That works out to about 988 property offences and 75 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.
Is Kastelocampos safe at night?
Kastelocampos is average for Greece: fine for most people after dark, with the ordinary care you would take in any neighbourhood of Patras late at night.
How does Kastelocampos compare with the rest of Patras?
Kastelocampos scores 60 out of 100 for violent crime, against 47 for Patras as a whole — safer than its surroundings.