Crime and safety in Kefalonia and Ithaca
Ιθάκη, Κεφαλληνία · Regional unit
Measured: police-recorded offence rateBy type of crime
- 67Overall safety
- 86Property crime
- 48Violent crime
Kefalonia and Ithaca scores 67 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 39,032 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
Kefalonia and Ithaca 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, Kefalonia and Ithaca rank 26th of Greece's 52 regional units, counting from the safest, at 67 out of 100 against 50 for the country as a whole. Property crime: 157 offences per 100,000 residents a year, 79% below the rate for Greece as a whole, 744. Violent crime: 106 offences per 100,000 residents a year, 5% above the rate for Greece as a whole, 101. Against the Greek rate, their highest is assault (+41%) and their lowest robbery (−95%).
Their nearest regional units, for overall safety: Zakynthos 48, Lefkada 59, Aetolia-Acarnania 55, Elis 56, Achaea 55, and Arta and Preveza 74. Kefalonia and Ithaca are 9 points above their average of 58.
Kefalonia and Ithaca 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 39,032 that does not include them, so per-resident figures can read higher than what residents experience.
| Offence | Kefalonia and Ithaca | Greece | Against Greece | Rank of 46 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burglary | 47 | 127 | −63% | 26 |
| Theft | 109 | 617 | −82% | 11 |
| of which vehicle theft | 40 | 166 | −76% | 14 |
| Property crime, total | 157 | 744 | −79% | 14 |
| Assault | 105 | 74 | +41% | 39 |
| Robbery | 1.3 | 26 | −95% | 4 |
| Intentional homicide | 0 | 0.8 | −100% | 1 |
| Violent crime, total | 106 | 101 | +5% | 37 |
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 Kefalonia and Ithaca?
Each year Eurostat publishes for Greece, 2021 to 2024: offences recorded by the Hellenic Police per 100,000 residents.
Property crime: 99 in 2021 and 174 in 2024, up 76%; Greece as a whole went from 680 to 716, up 5%. Violent crime: 122 in 2021 and 67 in 2024, down 45%; Greece as a whole went from 96 to 96, about the same.
| Year | Property crime | Violent crime | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kefalonia and Ithaca | Greece | Kefalonia and Ithaca | Greece | |
| 2021 | 99 | 680 | 122 | 96 |
| 2022 | 165 | 803 | 154 | 103 |
| 2023 | 189 | 775 | 80 | 108 |
| 2024 | 174 | 716 | 67 | 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 Kefalonia and Ithaca
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 Kefalonia and Ithaca safe?+
Kefalonia and Ithaca (Ιθάκη, Κεφαλληνία) scores 67 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 157 property offences and 106.1 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.
Are Kefalonia and Ithaca safe at night?+
SafetyMap has no time-of-day figures for Kefalonia and Ithaca: the police data behind the score are yearly totals that do not say when offences happen, so its 67 out of 100 is for day and night alike.
How do Kefalonia and Ithaca compare with the rest of Greece?+
For overall safety, Kefalonia and Ithaca rank 26th of Greece's 52 regional units, counting from the safest, at 67 out of 100 against 50 for the country as a whole. Their nearest regional units, for overall safety: Zakynthos 48, Lefkada 59, Aetolia-Acarnania 55, Elis 56, Achaea 55, and Arta and Preveza 74. Kefalonia and Ithaca are 9 points above their average of 58.