Pagona scores 46 out of 100 for violent crime — average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 2,748 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 Pagona is actually like
An inner neighbourhood on the eastern slope above the centre, lying north of Sinora and Kantrianika and running into Tabahana and Drosia. It is close-grained residential Patras: a mix of interwar houses and post-war blocks on steep streets, long-settled families, a parish church and neighbourhood shops, with the General Hospital and the Girokomeio green belt not far above. People come through it rather than to it. Against Drosia and Terpsithea on the same slope it is older and denser; against the districts named in police patrol lists it has no documented crime profile at all, and reads as an ordinary quiet residential quarter.
After dark
Quiet. Steep narrow streets with modest lighting and little late footfall, but no reported incidents or patrol priority. The hospital traffic above keeps some movement going through the night.
What to watch for
- Steep, narrow and poorly lit residential streets at night
- Standard home and vehicle security
Staying here
Workable if you find a short let and want quiet close to the centre — it is within walking distance downhill. Not convenient for an early Italy ferry; take a taxi to the South Port.
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Questions people ask
Is Pagona safe?
Pagona (Παγώνα) scores 46 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 Pagona is. That works out to about 656 property offences and 112.1 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.
Is Pagona safe at night?
Pagona 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 Pagona compare with the rest of Patras?
Pagona scores 46 out of 100 for violent crime, against 47 for Patras as a whole — about the same as its surroundings.