By type of crime
- 33Overall safety
- 34Property crime
- 31Violent crime
Goudi scores 33 out of 100 (modelled estimate, Eurostat 2021–2024) for overall safety — above-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. Goudi 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 Goudi. An estimated 34,979 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 Goudi is actually like
Goudi is a former army camp turned hospital-and-university quarter on the eastern edge of the municipality. It holds Laiko hospital, the Agia Sophia and Aglaia Kyriakou children's hospitals, Sotiria, the 401 military hospital, the University of Athens medical, dental and nursing schools, and a large, still half-finished metropolitan park. The population is students, medical staff and long-settled families.
After dark
The built streets are ordinary and calm, kept awake by shift changes and ambulance traffic. The park itself is dark, patchily lit and largely empty after hours, and much of it still functions as a car park rather than a park.
What to watch for
- The Goudi metropolitan park after dark — poorly lit, largely empty, and still functioning in large part as an unsupervised car park despite its protected status
- Double-parked cars around Laiko, Agia Sophia and Aglaia Kyriakou hospitals, documented as obstructing ambulance access
- Friction around the Ilissiakos stadium on match nights in the adjoining student belt
- No metro: the area is bus-only, so late arrivals mean long walks along dark campus and camp perimeters
Staying here
Sensible only if you are visiting a hospital or the university — there is no metro station and little within walking distance. Tourists should not book here; Ilisia gives the same calm with far better access.
Reputation against reality. Reputation is driven by the park's visible neglect, not by recorded crime. Greek coverage of the Goudi metropolitan park is about abandonment, parking and stalled planning, not about assaults.
Streets and squares: Leoforos Mesogeion · Papadiamantopoulou · Leoforos Katechaki · Georgiou Papandreou
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Questions people ask
Is Goudi safe?+
SafetyMap estimates Goudi (Γουδή) at 33 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 Goudi; there are no police figures for Goudi itself. As a rate, the estimate comes to roughly 1,500 property and 180 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year. The written notes on this page class it as “Ordinary precautions”.
Is Goudi safe at night?+
The built streets are ordinary and calm, kept awake by shift changes and ambulance traffic. The park itself is dark, patchily lit and largely empty after hours, and much of it still functions as a car park rather than a park.
How does Goudi compare with the rest of Athens?+
Goudi 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 Goudi.