Crime in Greece by region: what the police figures show

By the SafetyMap team · Updated September 26, 2026

Greece publishes police-recorded crime by region through Eurostat, and it is the only official source that puts reported crime on a map of the country. Averaged over 2021–2024, Greece records about 744 property offences and 101 violent offences a year for every 100,000 residents — but the regions are far apart.

Where the figures come from

The numbers are Eurostat's crim_gen_reg dataset: offences recorded by the Hellenic Police in each NUTS 3 region, per 100,000 inhabitants. We use the mean of 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 — four years rather than one, because a small region can double or halve from one year to the next — and leave out 2020, when lockdowns lowered every figure. Attica is published only as a whole, so it appears here as one region. How the scores are built.

Property crime: the two big cities lead

Thessaloniki records the most property crime per resident: about 1,379 offences per 100,000 a year, ahead of Attica with 1,241 and far above the Greek level of 744. Its burglary rate, 333 per 100,000, is twice Attica's 165. At the other end, Evrytania, Kastoria, Kozani and Grevena, Florina and the island of Chios all record fewer than 90.

Regional unit	Burglary	Theft	All property
Thessaloniki	333	1,047	1,379
Attica	165	1,076	1,241
Corinthia	185	577	762
Phthiotis	178	497	675
Chalkidiki	196	448	644
Elis	136	393	529
Euboea	150	361	510
Cyclades	88	414	502
Achaea	81	412	493
Boeotia	125	353	478

The ten regional units with the most property crime: offences per 100,000 residents a year, 2021–2024. Theft includes the theft of vehicles.

Violent crime: highest where the visitors are

Violent offences — assault, robbery and intentional homicide together — are highest on Zakynthos (166 per 100,000), in Attica (145) and in the Cyclades (124). Assault is most of it everywhere. Robbery is an offence of the big cities: Attica's 55 per 100,000 and Thessaloniki's 35 are far ahead of the next, Euboea with 17 and Achaea with 11.

Regional unit	Assault	Robbery	Homicide	All violent
Zakynthos	158	6	1.2	166
Attica	89	55	0.9	145
Cyclades	115	7	1.2	124
Aetolia-Acarnania	112	6	0.8	118
Lefkada	110	2	0	113
Thessaloniki	76	35	0.9	112
Chalkidiki	108	3	0.5	111
Lesbos and Lemnos	105	6	0.2	111
Thesprotia	106	4	0	109
Kefalonia and Ithaca	105	1	0	106

The ten regional units with the most violent crime: offences per 100,000 residents a year, 2021–2024

These are rates per resident. Where visitors outnumber residents in summer — Zakynthos, the Cyclades, Chalkidiki — offences involving visitors are counted but divided by residents alone, so the rate overstates the risk to any one person there. See crime on the Greek islands.

Every regional unit

Regional unit	Property	Violent	Score
Evrytania	43	30	95
Drama	105	34	91
Florina	85	43	89
Kastoria	60	43	89
Chios	36	45	88
Kozani and Grevena	79	45	88
Pieria	158	31	88
Trikala and Karditsa	108	43	86
Ioannina	132	48	82
Evros	138	56	79
Magnesia and the Sporades	230	40	79
Lasithi	184	50	78
Imathia	218	45	77
Kilkis	164	55	77
Kavala and Thasos	222	48	76
Pella	170	60	76
Larissa	195	55	75
Arta and Preveza	173	64	74
Chania	197	61	73
Corfu	106	97	73
Serres	252	54	73
Rhodope	220	61	72
Lesbos and Lemnos	108	111	71
Ikaria and Samos	156	94	69
Rethymno	221	77	68
Kefalonia and Ithaca	157	106	67
Thesprotia	153	109	67
Xanthi	339	64	66
Heraklion	308	69	66
Phocis	359	63	66
Laconia and Messenia	399	60	66
Argolis and Arcadia	398	64	65
Boeotia	478	75	60
Dodecanese (Rhodes, Kos, Kalymnos, Karpathos)	364	94	59
Lefkada	285	113	59
Euboea	510	89	56
Elis	529	90	56
Corinthia	762	71	55
Achaea	493	98	55
Phthiotis	675	79	55
Aetolia-Acarnania	388	118	55
Cyclades	502	124	51
Chalkidiki	644	111	50
Zakynthos	414	166	48
Thessaloniki	1,379	112	41
Attica	1,241	145	39

All Greek regional units, safest first: offences per 100,000 residents a year and the overall SafetyMap score

Each regional unit has its own page on the map, with the scores of its municipalities: open the map of Greece.

Sources

Figures are offences recorded by the Hellenic Police per 100,000 residents a year, averaged over 2021–2024 (Eurostat, crim_gen_reg). The tables are computed from the same data as the map.