Crime and safety in Kallithea
Δημοτική Κοινότητα Καλλιθέας · District
Modelled estimate — how it is madeBy type of crime
- 63Overall safety
- 67Property crime
- 60Violent crime
Kallithea scores 63 out of 100 (modelled estimate, Eurostat 2021–2024) for overall safety — below-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. Kallithea has no police figures of its own. Its estimate is Patras's rate — Patras scores 51 for overall safety — and the 12 points between them come from how the model shares Patras's total out, not from anything measured in Kallithea. It is home to about 837 people (2021 census).
The score is absolute, not a ranking: 50 is the offence rate of Greece as a whole and every doubling of the rate costs the same points, so any two places compare directly. How the scores are made
Updated · police figures: Eurostat 2021–2024 · What's new
What Kallithea is actually like
A community of the Messatida municipal unit on the rising ground south of Patras, made up of Kallithea, also called Kallitheokampos, and Ano Kallithea: 781 and 103 residents respectively at the 2021 census. Kallithea lies about 9 km in a straight line from Plateia Georgiou in central Patras, astride the Patras-Tripoli national road (111), and borders Ovrya, Thea and Krini. The present village grew up after the 1969 earthquake destroyed most of the old one, now rebuilt as Ano Kallithea, where two Mycenaean cemeteries have been excavated, one with 22 unlooted tombs. It is a small commuter settlement of detached houses. No visitor draw and no incident reporting in the 2024-2026 record. City bus 803 (Kallithea - Thea) makes eleven departures from Patras on weekdays, a few on Saturdays and none on Sundays (timetable in force from 28 September 2026). The street markets the municipal regulation places in the Messatida unit are Monday's on Germanou street in Ovrya and Thursday's on Agion Theodoron street in Demenika.
After dark
Quiet and dark on the lanes, with little late movement. Nothing documented.
What to watch for
- Unlit connecting lanes
- Standard home security for detached houses
Staying here
Only as a quiet longer stay with a car. A taxi run to the South Port for an Italy ferry.
Sources
- Municipality of Patras - Municipal units and communities
- Wikipedia (el) - Kallithea, Patras
- Wikipedia (el) - Ano Kallithea, Achaia
- ELSTAT - 2021 census: resident population by settlement (xlsx, 29 Mar 2024)
- OpenStreetMap - Kallithea (place node)
- OpenStreetMap - Plateia Georgiou A', Patras
- Astiko KTEL Patras - Line 803 Kallithea - Thea
- Diavgeia - Municipality of Patras, decision 98/2020: regulation for the operation of street markets
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Nearby municipalities
Questions people ask
Is Kallithea safe?+
SafetyMap estimates Kallithea (Δημοτική Κοινότητα Καλλιθέας) at 63 out of 100 for overall safety — below-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the Greek average. It is a modelled estimate, not a count of crimes recorded there: it comes from the estimate for Patras, since there are no police figures for Kallithea itself. As a rate, the estimate comes to roughly 360 property and 75 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year. The written notes on this page class it as “Ordinary precautions”.
Is Kallithea safe at night?+
Quiet and dark on the lanes, with little late movement. Nothing documented.
How does Kallithea compare with the rest of Patras?+
Kallithea has no police figures of its own. Its estimate is Patras's rate — Patras scores 51 for overall safety — and the 12 points between them come from how the model shares Patras's total out, not from anything measured in Kallithea.