Crime and safety in Ikaria and Samos
Ικαρία, Σάμος · Regional unit
Measured: police-recorded offence rateBy type of crime
- 69Overall safety
- 86Property crime
- 52Violent crime
Ikaria and Samos scores 69 out of 100 (police-recorded offences, Eurostat 2021–2024) for overall safety — below-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 42,859 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
Ikaria and Samos 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, Ikaria and Samos rank 24th of Greece's 52 regional units, counting from the safest, at 69 out of 100 against 50 for the country as a whole. Property crime: 156 offences per 100,000 residents a year, 79% below the rate for Greece as a whole, 744. Violent crime: 94 offences per 100,000 residents a year, 7% below the rate for Greece as a whole, 101. Against the Greek rate, their highest is assault (+20%) and their lowest robbery (−87%).
Their nearest regional units, for overall safety: Chios 88, Cyclades 51, Lesbos and Lemnos 71, Dodecanese (Rhodes, Kos, Kalymnos, Karpathos) 59, East Attica 47, and North Athens 42. Ikaria and Samos are 9 points above their average of 60.
Ikaria and Samos are made up of islands with far more people in summer than live there. The rates are per resident, and offences involving visitors count against a population of 42,859 that does not include them, so per-resident figures can read higher than what residents experience.
| Offence | Ikaria and Samos | Greece | Against Greece | Rank of 46 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burglary | 31 | 127 | −76% | 18 |
| Theft | 126 | 617 | −80% | 15 |
| of which vehicle theft | 23 | 166 | −86% | 7 |
| Property crime, total | 156 | 744 | −79% | 13 |
| Assault | 89 | 74 | +20% | 36 |
| Robbery | 3.4 | 26 | −87% | 23 |
| Intentional homicide | 1.2 | 0.8 | +51% | 40 |
| Violent crime, total | 94 | 101 | −7% | 33 |
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 Ikaria and Samos?
Each year Eurostat publishes for Greece, 2021 to 2024: offences recorded by the Hellenic Police per 100,000 residents.
Property crime: 126 in 2021 and 130 in 2024, about the same; Greece as a whole went from 680 to 716, up 5%. Violent crime: 36 in 2021 and 153 in 2024, up 324%; Greece as a whole went from 96 to 96, about the same.
| Year | Property crime | Violent crime | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ikaria and Samos | Greece | Ikaria and Samos | Greece | |
| 2021 | 126 | 680 | 36 | 96 |
| 2022 | 161 | 803 | 65 | 103 |
| 2023 | 208 | 775 | 121 | 108 |
| 2024 | 130 | 716 | 153 | 96 |
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 Ikaria and Samos
4 places, by overall safety
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.
Neighbouring regional units
Questions people ask
Are Ikaria and Samos safe?+
Ikaria and Samos (Ικαρία, Σάμος) scores 69 out of 100 for overall safety on SafetyMap — below-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 156 property offences and 93.8 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.
Are Ikaria and Samos safe at night?+
SafetyMap has no time-of-day figures for Ikaria and Samos: the police data behind the score are yearly totals that do not say when offences happen, so its 69 out of 100 is for day and night alike.
How do Ikaria and Samos compare with the rest of Greece?+
For overall safety, Ikaria and Samos rank 24th of Greece's 52 regional units, counting from the safest, at 69 out of 100 against 50 for the country as a whole. Their nearest regional units, for overall safety: Chios 88, Cyclades 51, Lesbos and Lemnos 71, Dodecanese (Rhodes, Kos, Kalymnos, Karpathos) 59, East Attica 47, and North Athens 42. Ikaria and Samos are 9 points above their average of 60.