By type of crime
- 21Overall safety
- 24Property crime
- 18Violent crime
Agios Nikolaos scores 21 out of 100 (modelled estimate, Eurostat 2021–2024) for overall safety — above-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. Agios Nikolaos has no police figures of its own. Its estimate starts from Athens's rate — Athens scores 25 for overall safety — and is adjusted for documented local reporting about Agios Nikolaos. An estimated 10,477 people live there: the 2021 census counts the surrounding community as a whole, and this is its share by area.
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
What Agios Nikolaos is actually like
A dense district built around the church and square of Agios Nikolaos, with Acharnon as its commercial spine and its own ISAP station on Line 1. It was middle-class; today its cheap older flats and good transport make it a lower-cost residential district. It functions as a working local high street: bakeries, phone shops, international grocers, the Saturday market. Very few outsiders come here on purpose.
After dark
The square and the Acharnon shops thin out after closing and the area is named in the current police plan as a drug-trafficking focus, so the late-night picture on and around the square is the district's real problem.
What to watch for
- Plateia Agiou Nikolaou, named in the Hellenic Police 2026 plan as a drug-dealing spot alongside Victoria, Attiki and Amerikis
- Chain-snatching at Agios Nikolaos ISAP station — one of the stations worked by the gang broken up with 21 arrests
- Acharnon after shop-closing, largely shuttered with little footfall
- Unlicensed street vending and crowding around the Acharnon market days
Staying here
Not a place to book. Line 1 puts you at Omonia quickly and the flats are cheap, but you would be staying in a police priority sector with nothing for a visitor in exchange.
Reputation against reality. Note the name clash: there is also a Plateia Agiou Nikolaou in the separate Municipality of Acharnes, well north of the city, which appears in unrelated police reports. The square in the Athens petty-crime plan is this one, off Acharnon street.
Streets and squares: Acharnon · Plateia Agiou Nikolaou · Leoforos Ionias · Agiou Nikolaou church
Other neighbourhoods in Athens
Nearby municipalities
Questions people ask
Is Agios Nikolaos safe?+
SafetyMap estimates Agios Nikolaos (Άγιος Νικόλαος) at 21 out of 100 for overall safety — above-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the Greek average. It is a modelled estimate, not a count of crimes recorded there: it comes from the estimate for Athens, adjusted for documented local reporting about Agios Nikolaos; there are no police figures for Agios Nikolaos itself. As a rate, the estimate comes to roughly 2,300 property and 270 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year. The written notes on this page class it as “Fine by day, care after dark”.
Is Agios Nikolaos safe at night?+
The square and the Acharnon shops thin out after closing and the area is named in the current police plan as a drug-trafficking focus, so the late-night picture on and around the square is the district's real problem.
How does Agios Nikolaos compare with the rest of Athens?+
Agios Nikolaos has no police figures of its own. Its estimate starts from Athens's rate — Athens scores 25 for overall safety — and is adjusted for documented local reporting about Agios Nikolaos.