By type of crime
- 28Overall safety
- 25Property crime
- 31Violent crime
Lower Petralona scores 28 out of 100 (modelled estimate, Eurostat 2021–2024) for overall safety — above-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. Lower Petralona 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 Lower Petralona. An estimated 3,802 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 Lower Petralona is actually like
Kato (Lower) Petralona is the half below the Line 1 railway, running down towards Pireos street. It is more ordinary than its upper twin - 1960s apartment blocks, a central square with a church and playgrounds, local shops rather than destination tavernas - with a small bar scene of its own on Keiriadon and a pedestrian stretch of Thessalonikis under the railway that serves residents rather than visitors. Petralona station sits on the dividing line.
After dark
Quiet residential streets with a handful of busy bars. It is calm rather than lively, and the emptier blocks towards Pireos are the ones to avoid walking alone late.
What to watch for
- No neighbourhood-specific crime reporting found in Greek press for Kato Petralona
- Pickpocket teams reported working the boarding crush at Petralona station
- The western edge towards Pireos street and Rouf is industrial and empty at night
- Kato Petralona does not appear in either sector of the Hellenic Police 2026 central Athens plan
Staying here
Only worth it if you want low prices and a genuinely non-touristed base, and you are happy with two metro stops to the centre. There are few hotels; most stock is short-let flats. Not a first-trip choice.
Reputation against reality. The two halves of Petralona get lumped together in travel writing, which flatters the lower half and undersells the upper. Kato Petralona is fine and unremarkable, not charming - visitors booking 'Petralona' for the neoclassical-lanes-and-tavernas picture should check which side of the tracks the address is on.
Streets and squares: Keiriadon · Thessalonikis (pedestrian stretch under the railway) · Petralona metro station · Pireos
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Questions people ask
Is Lower Petralona safe?+
SafetyMap estimates Lower Petralona (Κάτω Πετράλωνα) at 28 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 Lower Petralona; there are no police figures for Lower Petralona itself. As a rate, the estimate comes to roughly 2,200 property and 180 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year. The written notes on this page class it as “Ordinary precautions”.
Is Lower Petralona safe at night?+
Quiet residential streets with a handful of busy bars. It is calm rather than lively, and the emptier blocks towards Pireos are the ones to avoid walking alone late.
How does Lower Petralona compare with the rest of Athens?+
Lower Petralona 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 Lower Petralona.