By type of crime
- 89Overall safety
- 100Property crime
- 78Violent crime
Kastoria scores 89 out of 100 (police-recorded offences, Eurostat 2021–2024) for overall safety — very low crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. Property crime 100 is where the scale ends, not a measurement: the rate, 60 offences per 100,000 residents a year, is below 85, where the scale stops, so places at 100 are not ranked against each other. It is home to about 50,322 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
Kastoria 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, Kastoria ranks 4th of Greece's 52 regional units, counting from the safest, at 89 out of 100 against 50 for the country as a whole. Property crime: 60 offences per 100,000 residents a year, 92% below the rate for Greece as a whole, 744. Violent crime: 43 offences per 100,000 residents a year, 57% below the rate for Greece as a whole, 101. Against the Greek rate, its highest is assault (−45%) and its lowest theft (−93%).
Its nearest regional units, for overall safety: Florina 89, Kozani and Grevena 88, Ioannina 82, Imathia 77, Pella 76, and Pieria 88. Kastoria is 6 points above their average of 83.
| Offence | Kastoria | Greece | Against Greece | Rank of 46 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burglary | 17 | 127 | −87% | 6 |
| Theft | 43 | 617 | −93% | 3 |
| of which vehicle theft | 17 | 166 | −90% | 4 |
| Property crime, total | 60 | 744 | −92% | 3 |
| Assault | 41 | 74 | −45% | 6 |
| Robbery | 2.2 | 26 | −91% | 15 |
| Intentional homicide | 0 | 0.8 | −100% | 1 |
| Violent crime, total | 43 | 101 | −57% | 7 |
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 Kastoria?
Each year Eurostat publishes for Greece, 2021 to 2024: offences recorded by the Hellenic Police per 100,000 residents.
Property crime: 64 in 2021 and 38 in 2024, down 40%; Greece as a whole went from 680 to 716, up 5%. Violent crime: 40 in 2021 and 32 in 2024, down 20%; Greece as a whole went from 96 to 96, about the same.
| Year | Property crime | Violent crime | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kastoria | Greece | Kastoria | Greece | |
| 2021 | 64 | 680 | 40 | 96 |
| 2022 | 76 | 803 | 48 | 103 |
| 2023 | 62 | 775 | 53 | 108 |
| 2024 | 38 | 716 | 32 | 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 Kastoria
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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.
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Questions people ask
Is Kastoria safe?+
Kastoria (Καστοριά) scores 89 out of 100 for overall safety on SafetyMap — very low 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 60 property offences and 43.1 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year. Property crime 100 is where the scale ends, not a measurement: the rate, 60 offences per 100,000 residents a year, is below 85, where the scale stops, so places at 100 are not ranked against each other.
Is Kastoria safe at night?+
SafetyMap has no time-of-day figures for Kastoria: the police data behind the score are yearly totals that do not say when offences happen, so its 89 out of 100 is for day and night alike.
How does Kastoria compare with the rest of Greece?+
For overall safety, Kastoria ranks 4th of Greece's 52 regional units, counting from the safest, at 89 out of 100 against 50 for the country as a whole. Its nearest regional units, for overall safety: Florina 89, Kozani and Grevena 88, Ioannina 82, Imathia 77, Pella 76, and Pieria 88. Kastoria is 6 points above their average of 83.