By type of crime
- 73Overall safety
- 95Property crime
- 51Violent crime
Corfu scores 73 out of 100 (police-recorded offences, Eurostat 2021–2024) for overall safety — below-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 104,371 people (2021 census).
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
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Corfu in the police figures
Eurostat publishes the offences recorded by the Hellenic Police in each regional unit. The figures here are the yearly mean of 2021–2024, per 100,000 residents, next to the rate for Greece as a whole.
For overall safety, Corfu ranks 20th of Greece's 52 regional units, counting from the safest, at 73 out of 100 against 50 for the country as a whole. Property crime: 106 offences per 100,000 residents a year, 86% below the rate for Greece as a whole, 744. Violent crime: 97 offences per 100,000 residents a year, close to the rate for Greece as a whole, 101. Against the Greek rate, its highest is assault (+26%) and its lowest robbery (−89%).
Its nearest regional units, for overall safety: Thesprotia 67, Ioannina 82, Arta and Preveza 74, Lefkada 59, Kastoria 89, and Trikala and Karditsa 86. Corfu is 3 points below their average of 76.
Corfu is made up of islands with far more people in summer than live there. The rates are per resident, and offences involving visitors count against a population of 104,371 that does not include them, so per-resident figures can read higher than what residents experience.
| Offence | Corfu | Greece | Against Greece | Rank of 46 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burglary | 23 | 127 | −82% | 10 |
| Theft | 84 | 617 | −86% | 7 |
| of which vehicle theft | 32 | 166 | −81% | 10 |
| Property crime, total | 106 | 744 | −86% | 7 |
| Assault | 94 | 74 | +26% | 38 |
| Robbery | 2.8 | 26 | −89% | 19 |
| Intentional homicide | 1 | 0.8 | +29% | 34 |
| Violent crime, total | 97 | 101 | ≈ 0% | 35 |
Rank among the 46 areas Eurostat reports — the 45 regional units outside Attica and Attica as a whole — 1 being the lowest rate. Homicides are so few that a single case moves a small unit's rate a long way.
Is crime rising or falling in Corfu?
Each year Eurostat publishes for Greece, 2021 to 2024: offences recorded by the Hellenic Police per 100,000 residents.
Property crime: 76 in 2021 and 99 in 2024, up 31%; Greece as a whole went from 680 to 716, up 5%. Violent crime: 71 in 2021 and 106 in 2024, up 51%; Greece as a whole went from 96 to 96, about the same.
| Year | Property crime | Violent crime | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corfu | Greece | Corfu | Greece | |
| 2021 | 76 | 680 | 71 | 96 |
| 2022 | 132 | 803 | 94 | 103 |
| 2023 | 119 | 775 | 119 | 108 |
| 2024 | 99 | 716 | 106 | 96 |
A regional unit's yearly rate moves with a handful of cases, and it is divided by residents, not visitors. That is why the score uses the mean of all 4 years.
Municipalities in Corfu
4 places, by overall safety
All municipalities, largest first
The number on the right is how many people live there. The one on the left is its safety score out of 100.
Neighbouring regional units
Questions people ask
Is Corfu safe?+
Corfu (Κέρκυρα) scores 73 out of 100 for overall safety on SafetyMap — below-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the Greek average. That is based on police-recorded offence rates reported to Eurostat for 2021–2024. That works out to about 106 property offences and 97.3 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.
Is Corfu safe at night?+
SafetyMap has no time-of-day figures for Corfu: the police data behind the score are yearly totals that do not say when offences happen, so its 73 out of 100 is for day and night alike.
How does Corfu compare with the rest of Greece?+
For overall safety, Corfu ranks 20th of Greece's 52 regional units, counting from the safest, at 73 out of 100 against 50 for the country as a whole. Its nearest regional units, for overall safety: Thesprotia 67, Ioannina 82, Arta and Preveza 74, Lefkada 59, Kastoria 89, and Trikala and Karditsa 86. Corfu is 3 points below their average of 76.