Άνω Πατήσια · district
Ano Patisia scores 21 out of 100 for overall safety — above-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 13,594 people at 16,579 people per km².
The score is absolute, not a ranking: 50 is the offence rate for Greece as a whole, 100 the safest end of the scale and 0 the least safe, and every doubling of the rate costs the same number of points wherever you are. Regional units are scored from Eurostat's police-recorded offence rates per 100,000 inhabitants. Greece publishes nothing finer, so municipalities and districts share out their region's measured rate by how built-up they are and by documented local reporting — treat those two levels as an estimate, not a count of reported crime.
The northern end of the Patision axis, where the city thins towards Nea Ionia and Galatsi. It began as an out-of-town settlement reached by tram and steam railway, industrialised early with the Drakopoulou wool mill and the Fix ice-cream works, and kept villas and estates that are now listed and mostly decaying. Next to it is Kypriadou, a 1920s-30s garden suburb of two-storey villas once lived in by writers and architects, still one of the pleasantest pockets in north Athens.
Ordinary residential evenings — ISAP running, bakeries and tavernas open on the main streets, nothing on the side roads. Noticeably calmer than Kato Patisia.
Workable for a long stay or a family visit: quieter, greener toward Kypriadou, ISAP to the centre in about twenty minutes. Still not a holiday base — you are a long way from anything a first-time visitor came for.
Reputation against reality. Lumped in with 'Patisia' in avoid-lists, which is unfair to this end of it: Kypriadou in particular is a conservation-grade garden suburb, not a problem district.
Streets and squares: Patision (28is Oktovriou) · Kypriadou · Gravas school complex · Alysida