Ψαθοπύργου · district
Psathopyrgou scores 52 out of 100 for overall safety — average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 796 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 coastal village of the Rio municipal unit about 18 km north-east of Patras at 5 m elevation, the northernmost settlement of the Peloponnese, where the mountain comes down to the sea. Tavernas, beaches and a large summer-house stock. It is one of the few outlying settlements with a documented burglary problem, aimed at unoccupied holiday homes.
Busy along the shore in summer, very quiet out of season, with unlit stretches on the coast road. The documented risk is property, not people.
Good for a seaside stay with a car and the best of the northern shore villages for tavernas. Not a base for an early Italy ferry — around 25 km from the South Port gates.