Treis Gefyres scores 18 out of 100 for violent crime — high crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 7,197 people at 16,579 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 Treis Gefyres is actually like
A small quarter in the northwest corner of the municipality, at the top of Liosion where the national road crosses — the three bridges that name it. It is part infrastructure, part housing: the Liosion KTEL intercity bus terminal sits here, and the rail corridor that a four-track and undergrounding project has been rebuilding runs straight through. Most people who pass through are catching a coach to central Greece, not stopping.
After dark
Coaches keep the terminal area alive at odd hours but the surrounding streets are a mix of yards, workshops and blocks with little life; it reads as a transport edge, not a neighbourhood centre.
What to watch for
- Bag theft around the Liosion KTEL terminal and its waiting areas, as at any coach station
- Heavy traffic and poor pavements on Liosion caused by coach movements
- Ongoing railway works between the Athens station exit and Treis Gefyres, with closures and diversions
Staying here
Only if you have a 6am coach. Otherwise it is an infrastructure corner with no evening life and an awkward connection to the centre.
Reputation against reality. Not named in the police plan or in travel-safety writing. The complaints residents actually make are about traffic, cleanliness and neglected pavements, not crime.
Streets and squares: Liosion · KTEL Liosion terminal · Athens-Lamia national road
Other neighbourhoods in Athens
Nearby municipalities
Questions people ask
Is Treis Gefyres safe?
Treis Gefyres (Τρείς Γέφυρες) scores 18 out of 100 for violent crime on SafetyMap — high 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 Treis Gefyres is and by documented local reporting. That works out to about 2,773 property offences and 265.9 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.
Is Treis Gefyres safe at night?
Treis Gefyres 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 Treis Gefyres compare with the rest of Athens?
Treis Gefyres scores 18 out of 100 for violent crime, against 23 for Athens as a whole — worse than its surroundings.