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Crime and safety in Phthiotis

Φθιώτιδα · Regional unit

Measured: police-recorded offence rate
55/100

By type of crime

Phthiotis scores 55 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 158,231 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

Phthiotis 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, Phthiotis ranks joint 39th of Greece's 52 regional units, counting from the safest, at 55 out of 100 against 50 for the country as a whole. Property crime: 675 offences per 100,000 residents a year, 9% below the rate for Greece as a whole, 744. Violent crime: 79 offences per 100,000 residents a year, 22% below the rate for Greece as a whole, 101. Against the Greek rate, its highest is burglary (+40%) and its lowest robbery (−60%).

Its nearest regional units, for overall safety: Phocis 66, Magnesia and the Sporades 79, Evrytania 95, Boeotia 60, Larissa 75, and Trikala and Karditsa 86. Phthiotis is 22 points below their average of 77.

Offences recorded by the Hellenic Police per 100,000 residents a year, mean of 2021–2024 (Eurostat, crim_gen_reg).
OffencePhthiotisGreeceAgainst GreeceRank of 46
Burglary178127+40%43
Theft497617−19%43
of which vehicle theft78166−53%26
Property crime, total675744−9%43
Assault6874−9%29
Robbery1026−60%41
Intentional homicide0.70.8−11%20
Violent crime, total79101−22%30

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 Phthiotis?

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

Property crime: 582 in 2021 and 643 in 2024, up 11%; Greece as a whole went from 680 to 716, up 5%. Violent crime: 67 in 2021 and 94 in 2024, up 42%; 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
PhthiotisGreecePhthiotisGreece
20215826806796
202266980376103
202380577578108
20246437169496

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 Phthiotis

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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 Phthiotis safe?

Phthiotis (Φθιώτιδα) scores 55 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 675 property offences and 78.8 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.

Is Phthiotis safe at night?

SafetyMap has no time-of-day figures for Phthiotis: the police data behind the score are yearly totals that do not say when offences happen, so its 55 out of 100 is for day and night alike.

How does Phthiotis compare with the rest of Greece?

For overall safety, Phthiotis ranks joint 39th of Greece's 52 regional units, counting from the safest, at 55 out of 100 against 50 for the country as a whole. Its nearest regional units, for overall safety: Phocis 66, Magnesia and the Sporades 79, Evrytania 95, Boeotia 60, Larissa 75, and Trikala and Karditsa 86. Phthiotis is 22 points below their average of 77.

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