Taraboura 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 2,006 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 Taraboura is actually like
A southern district near the Glafkos river crossing, between Zarouchleika and Begoulaki, named after the nickname of Dimitrios Aravantinos, a nineteenth-century property owner who ran a cafe here. It is plain residential Patras with a workers' housing estate, Patra 5, at its core, plus older houses, small blocks and neighbourhood shops. There is no visitor interest. Against Zarouchleika immediately north it is smaller and, importantly, carries none of the documented policing attention; against Metamorfosi Sotiros across the Glafkos it is older and closer in. Complaints here have been about estate conditions rather than crime.
After dark
Quiet residential streets with modest lighting; the river corridor and open ground toward the Glafkos are dark. Problems raised in parliament about the Patra 5 workers' housing concern conditions and upkeep, not safety. No documented incidents or patrol priorities name Taraboura.
What to watch for
- The Glafkos river corridor and open ground after dark
- Worn common areas and lighting on the Patra 5 workers' estate
- Standard home security
Staying here
No — very little to book, nothing to see, and the centre serves you better. Being south helps a little for the Italy ferries but you will still want a taxi to the South Port.
Streets and squares: Ergatikes Katoikies Patra 5
Other neighbourhoods in Patras
Nearby municipalities
Questions people ask
Is Taraboura safe?
Taraboura (Ταραμπούρα) 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 Taraboura is. That works out to about 660 property offences and 112 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.
Is Taraboura safe at night?
Taraboura 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 Taraboura compare with the rest of Patras?
Taraboura scores 46 out of 100 for violent crime, against 47 for Patras as a whole — about the same as its surroundings.