Zakynthos scores 33 out of 100 for violent crime — above-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 40,759 people.
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.
Municipalities in Zakynthos
1 place, by violent crime
All municipalities, largest first
The number on the right is how many people live there. The one on the left is its safety score out of 100.
Neighbouring regional units
Questions people ask
Is Zakynthos safe?
Zakynthos (Ζάκυνθος) scores 33 out of 100 for violent crime on SafetyMap — above-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the Greek average. That is based on police-recorded offence rates reported to Eurostat for 2021–2024. That works out to about 542 property offences and 165.6 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.
Is Zakynthos safe at night?
Zakynthos 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 Zakynthos compare with the rest of Greece?
Zakynthos scores 33 out of 100 for violent crime, on a scale where 50 is the Greek national offence rate.