Guides
What the police figures behind the map say: where each kind of crime is recorded most and least in Greece, what the rates can and cannot tell you, and how the largest cities and the islands compare.
Crime in Greece by region: what the police figures show
Burglary, theft, car theft, assault, robbery and homicide per 100,000 residents in every Greek regional unit, from police records (Eurostat, 2021–2024).
Burglary, theft and car theft in Greece: where the rates are highest
Where property crime is recorded most and least in Greece: burglary, theft and vehicle theft per 100,000 residents by regional unit (Eurostat, 2021–2024).
Assault, robbery and homicide in Greece by region
Police-recorded violent crime in every Greek regional unit: assault, robbery and intentional homicide per 100,000 residents (Eurostat, 2021–2024).
Crime on the Greek islands: why per-resident rates mislead
Crime on Crete, the Cyclades, the Dodecanese, the Ionian and North Aegean islands, compared with the mainland — and what tourism does to the rates.
Athens, Thessaloniki and Patras: how Greece's largest cities compare
Burglary, theft, car theft, assault, robbery and homicide in Attica, Thessaloniki, Achaea (Patras), Heraklion and Larissa — Eurostat, 2021–2024.