By type of crime
- 64Overall safety
- 67Property crime
- 60Violent crime
Thea scores 64 out of 100 (modelled estimate, Eurostat 2021–2024) for overall safety — below-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. Thea has no police figures of its own. Its estimate is Patras's rate — Patras scores 51 for overall safety — and the 13 points between them come from how the model shares Patras's total out, not from anything measured in Thea. It is home to about 508 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
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What Thea is actually like
A village and community of the Messatida municipal unit on the rising ground south of Patras, about 11 km from the city centre (9 km in a straight line from Plateia Georgiou), bordering Kallithea, Mintilogli and Ovrya. The community had 538 residents at the 2021 census: 439 in Thea and the rest in Pavlokastro and Lygies. The village was recorded as Tsaplaneika in 1889 and renamed Thea, 'view', in 1955; Mycenaean remains have been excavated in the area, and its football club, A.O. Theas, was founded in 1997. A small hillside settlement of scattered houses with the view its name promises. No visitor infrastructure, and nothing in the 2024-2026 police or press record names Thea. City buses 803 and 804 (Kallithea - Thea) run here on weekdays and Saturdays but not on Sundays (timetable in force from 28 September 2026). The street markets the municipal regulation places in the Messatida unit are Monday's in Ovrya and Thursday's in Demenika.
After dark
Silent and dark, with no street lighting away from the core and no through traffic. Nothing documented.
What to watch for
- Unlit hill roads
- Isolated houses; standard burglary precautions
Staying here
Only as a rural base with a car. No practical use for an early Italy ferry.
Sources
- Municipality of Patras - Municipal units and communities
- Wikipedia (el) - Thea, Achaia
- ELSTAT - 2021 census: resident population by settlement (xlsx, 29 Mar 2024)
- OpenStreetMap - Thea (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
Other neighbourhoods in Patras
Nearby municipalities
Questions people ask
Is Thea safe?+
SafetyMap estimates Thea (Δημοτική Κοινότητα Θέας) at 64 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 Thea itself. As a rate, the estimate comes to roughly 360 property and 74 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year. The written notes on this page class it as “Ordinary precautions”.
Is Thea safe at night?+
Silent and dark, with no street lighting away from the core and no through traffic. Nothing documented.
How does Thea compare with the rest of Patras?+
Thea has no police figures of its own. Its estimate is Patras's rate — Patras scores 51 for overall safety — and the 13 points between them come from how the model shares Patras's total out, not from anything measured in Thea.