Ριζουπόλεως · district
Rizoupoli scores 32 out of 100 for overall safety — above-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 12,730 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.
A northern neighbourhood on the boundary with Nea Ionia and Perissos, named after Ioannis Rizopoulos, who in the early twentieth century laid out houses, shops and roads on what was still semi-agricultural land. It grew as a refugee and working quarter and is now plain residential Athens: apartment blocks with some older houses among them, local shops, schools and the Apollon Smyrnis ground on its edge. Nothing about it appears in crime reporting or in travel-safety writing.
Ordinary and quiet. Main streets stay lit and used, interior streets empty out; the parts to skip after midnight are the unlit edges by the cemetery and the railway.
Fine as a residential address, pointless as a holiday base. Property here is cheaper than the city centre and it is marketed locally as calm; the trade is a longer commute to everything a visitor wants.
Reputation against reality. Not named in the 2026 Hellenic Police plan and not mentioned in any traveller avoid-list found. The 'Patisia' reputation that reaches it is borrowed from a mile further south.
Streets and squares: Apollon Smyrnis stadium · Second Athens Cemetery · Leoforos Ionias