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Crime and safety in Euboea

Εύβοια · Regional unit

Measured: police-recorded offence rate
56/100

By type of crime

Euboea scores 56 out of 100 (police-recorded offences, Eurostat 2021–2024) for overall safety — average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 210,815 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

Euboea in the police figures

Eurostat publishes the offences recorded by the Hellenic Police in each regional unit. The figures here are the yearly mean of 2021–2024, per 100,000 residents, next to the rate for Greece as a whole.

For overall safety, Euboea ranks 36th of Greece's 52 regional units, counting from the safest, at 56 out of 100 against 50 for the country as a whole. Property crime: 510 offences per 100,000 residents a year, 31% below the rate for Greece as a whole, 744. Violent crime: 89 offences per 100,000 residents a year, 12% below the rate for Greece as a whole, 101. Against the Greek rate, its highest is burglary (+18%) and its lowest theft (−42%).

Its nearest regional units, for overall safety: North Athens 42, East Attica 47, West Athens 36, West Attica 27, Boeotia 60, and Central Athens 29. Euboea is 16 points above their average of 40.

Offences recorded by the Hellenic Police per 100,000 residents a year, mean of 2021–2024 (Eurostat, crim_gen_reg).
OffenceEuboeaGreeceAgainst GreeceRank of 46
Burglary150127+18%41
Theft361617−42%38
of which vehicle theft113166−32%36
Property crime, total510744−31%40
Assault7174≈ 0%30
Robbery1726−36%44
Intentional homicide1.10.8+38%36
Violent crime, total89101−12%31

Rank among the 46 areas Eurostat reports — the 45 regional units outside Attica and Attica as a whole — 1 being the lowest rate. Homicides are so few that a single case moves a small unit's rate a long way.

Is crime rising or falling in Euboea?

Each year Eurostat publishes for Greece, 2021 to 2024: offences recorded by the Hellenic Police per 100,000 residents.

Property crime: 415 in 2021 and 605 in 2024, up 46%; Greece as a whole went from 680 to 716, up 5%. Violent crime: 75 in 2021 and 89 in 2024, up 18%; Greece as a whole went from 96 to 96, about the same.

Offences recorded by the Hellenic Police per 100,000 residents, by year (Eurostat, crim_gen_reg).
YearProperty crimeViolent crime
EuboeaGreeceEuboeaGreece
20214156807596
202252980397103
202349377593108
20246057168996

A regional unit's yearly rate moves with a handful of cases, and it is divided by residents, not visitors. That is why the score uses the mean of all 4 years.

Municipalities in Euboea

8 places, by overall safety

Safest

Most crime

All municipalities, largest first

The number on the right is how many people live there. The one on the left is its safety score out of 100.

Questions people ask

Is Euboea safe?

Euboea (Εύβοια) scores 56 out of 100 for overall safety on SafetyMap — average crime, on a scale where 50 is the Greek average. That is based on police-recorded offence rates reported to Eurostat for 2021–2024. That works out to about 510 property offences and 88.7 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.

Is Euboea safe at night?

SafetyMap has no time-of-day figures for Euboea: the police data behind the score are yearly totals that do not say when offences happen, so its 56 out of 100 is for day and night alike.

How does Euboea compare with the rest of Greece?

For overall safety, Euboea ranks 36th of Greece's 52 regional units, counting from the safest, at 56 out of 100 against 50 for the country as a whole. Its nearest regional units, for overall safety: North Athens 42, East Attica 47, West Athens 36, West Attica 27, Boeotia 60, and Central Athens 29. Euboea is 16 points above their average of 40.

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