By type of crime
- 44Overall safety
- 44Property crime
- 45Violent crime
Mets scores 44 out of 100 (modelled estimate, Eurostat 2021–2024) for overall safety — average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. Mets 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 Mets. An estimated 5,266 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 Mets is actually like
Mets is a small, steep, leafy pocket between the Panathenaic Stadium, the First Cemetery and Neos Kosmos, full of pre-war and 1930s houses, marble sculpture workshops on Anapafseos and a handful of wine bars and tavernas. It is quieter and more architectural than Pangrati, with only a scattering of shops, and is sometimes called the Montmartre of Athens.
After dark
Very quiet. The streets are narrow, sloping and thinly lit, but residential throughout with almost no through traffic. Markou Mousourou is the main way in and out and stays reasonably lit.
What to watch for
- Narrow, steep, thinly lit residential streets with uneven paving — the main risk is a fall, not a person
- The First Cemetery perimeter is gated and unlit after closing, making the streets alongside it feel dead at night
- Very few shops or late-night businesses, so long stretches with nowhere open to step into
Staying here
Excellent for couples and older travellers: central, calm, ten minutes from the Zappeion and the Temple of Olympian Zeus. A poor choice for anyone who wants nightlife downstairs, and hard work if you dislike hills.
Reputation against reality. The First Cemetery on its doorstep puts some visitors off, but it functions as green space and an open-air sculpture museum, and is closed and gated at night.
Streets and squares: Markou Mousourou · Anapafseos · Trivonianou · Archimidous · Ardittou · Iliopoleos/Karea
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Questions people ask
Is Mets safe?+
SafetyMap estimates Mets (Μετς) at 44 out of 100 for overall safety — 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 Mets; there are no police figures for Mets itself. As a rate, the estimate comes to roughly 970 property and 120 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year. The written notes on this page class it as “A good place to stay”.
Is Mets safe at night?+
Very quiet. The streets are narrow, sloping and thinly lit, but residential throughout with almost no through traffic. Markou Mousourou is the main way in and out and stays reasonably lit.
How does Mets compare with the rest of Athens?+
Mets 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 Mets.