How the scores work
Every one of the 52 regional units, 333 municipalities and 6,356 neighbourhoods on the map has three scores from 0 to 100 — overall, property and violent crime. Higher is safer. This page says where the numbers come from and how far to trust each level.
What is measured
Regional units are scored from Eurostat's regional crime statistics (dataset crim_gen_reg): offences recorded by the Hellenic Police per 100,000 inhabitants, as the mean of 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. Property crime is burglary, theft and theft of a motor vehicle; violent crime is intentional homicide, assault and robbery. The overall score is the average of the two.
Eurostat reports Attica only as a whole. Its seven regional units — Central, North, South and West Athens, Piraeus and the Islands, East and West Attica — are split from that total with multipliers taken from the Hellenic Police statistical yearbooks for 2024 and 2025, scaled so that together they still equal the measured Attica rate.
The scale
A score is absolute, not a rank. 50 is the rate of Greece as a whole — about 900 property and 100 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year — and every doubling of the rate costs the same number of points: 16 for property crime, 23 for violent crime, whose rates vary far less between regions. So a 70 in Crete and a 70 in Athens mean the same thing.
- 91+Exceptionally low crime91 and above — exceptionally low crime
- 80+Very low crime80–90 — very low
- 63+Below-average crime63–79 — below average
- 43+Average crime43–62 — about average
- 20+Above-average crime20–42 — above average
- 0+High crimebelow 20 — high
What is modelled
Greece publishes no police figures below the region, so municipalities and neighbourhoods are estimates. Each region's measured rate is shared out among its municipalities, and each municipality's among its neighbourhoods, by how built-up they are, and by documented local reporting where it exists — police announcements and repeated coverage in the Greek press, each with its source. The shares always add back up to the measured figure: if one neighbourhood takes more of a city's thefts, another takes fewer.
Treat a municipality or neighbourhood score as an informed estimate of where it sits within its region, not as a count of reported crime. Every place page is marked measured or modelled.
Limits
- Recorded crime is reported crime: offences nobody reports do not appear in any police statistic.
- Rates are per resident, so places with many visitors and few residents — old town centres, beaches — can look worse than they feel.
- Populations come from the 2021 census; for neighbourhoods drawn from OpenStreetMap they are estimated from area.
- The data is updated between releases, not live.
Sources
- Eurostat — recorded offences by offence category, police data by NUTS 3 regions (crim_gen_reg)
- Hellenic Police statistical yearbooks, 2024 and 2025 — the split of Attica into its regional units
- Eurostat GISCO — boundaries and 2021 populations of local administrative units
- OpenStreetMap contributors — neighbourhood outlines
- Wikidata — everyday place names by ELSTAT code
Start from the map of Greece, or read about SafetyMap. The data files behind every page are listed in llms.txt.
Questions about the scores
Where does SafetyMap's crime data come from?
From Eurostat's regional crime statistics (dataset crim_gen_reg): offences recorded by the Hellenic Police per 100,000 inhabitants, averaged over 2021–2024.
Is a neighbourhood score a count of crimes?
No. Greece publishes police figures only down to the region, so municipality and neighbourhood scores are modelled from their region's measured rate. They are estimates, and the page marks them as modelled.
What does a score of 50 mean?
50 is the offence rate of Greece as a whole. Higher is safer: every doubling of the rate costs a fixed number of points, so scores compare directly across regions.