Εγλυκάδα · district
Eglykada scores 54 out of 100 for overall safety — average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 5,233 people at 618 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.
A large south-eastern district of about 5,000 residents, containing the sub-neighbourhoods Tzoleika, Politeika and Peukiotisa and two squares, Al. Dimopoulou and Agios Andreas. It mixes rapid residential development, detached houses on quiet lanes and a working industrial fringe of factories and workshops, and it is where the Riganokampos settlement sits on the city's eastern edge — Riganokampos is not a district in its own right in our data, and of the names on this list Eglykada is the one that contains and abuts it, with Perivola on its other side. Against Koukouli and Perivola it is bigger, more industrial and much more often named by police.
Mixed. The detached-house lanes are calm; the industrial fringe and the approaches to the eastern edge are dark and empty. Eglykada was one of six districts placed under targeted police patrols in July 2025 and is named repeatedly in burglary reporting through May 2026. Guides record locals naming it as an area to be careful in.
No for a short visit — it is 4-5 km out with nothing to see and a burglary-hotspot listing. Fine as a longer rental if you take home security seriously. Not a base for an early Italy ferry.
Reputation against reality. Eglykada's reputation is driven by property crime, not street crime. Nothing in the record suggests a pedestrian risk here; the documented pattern is daytime and night-time burglary of houses.
Streets and squares: Plateia Al. Dimopoulou · Plateia Agiou Andrea (Eglykada)