Crime and safety in Lesbos and Lemnos
Λέσβος, Λήμνος · Regional unit
Measured: police-recorded offence rateBy type of crime
- 71Overall safety
- 94Property crime
- 47Violent crime
Lesbos and Lemnos scores 71 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 103,698 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
Lesbos and Lemnos 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, Lesbos and Lemnos rank 23rd of Greece's 52 regional units, counting from the safest, at 71 out of 100 against 50 for the country as a whole. Property crime: 108 offences per 100,000 residents a year, 85% below the rate for Greece as a whole, 744. Violent crime: 111 offences per 100,000 residents a year, 10% above the rate for Greece as a whole, 101. Against the Greek rate, their highest is assault (+42%) and their lowest burglary (−86%).
Their nearest regional units, for overall safety: Chios 88, Ikaria and Samos 69, Rhodope 72, Euboea 56, Evros 79, and East Attica 47. Lesbos and Lemnos are 2 points above their average of 69.
Lesbos and Lemnos are 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 103,698 that does not include them, so per-resident figures can read higher than what residents experience.
| Offence | Lesbos and Lemnos | Greece | Against Greece | Rank of 46 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burglary | 18 | 127 | −86% | 9 |
| Theft | 90 | 617 | −85% | 8 |
| of which vehicle theft | 45 | 166 | −73% | 15 |
| Property crime, total | 108 | 744 | −85% | 8 |
| Assault | 105 | 74 | +42% | 40 |
| Robbery | 5.7 | 26 | −78% | 33 |
| Intentional homicide | 0.2 | 0.8 | −69% | 9 |
| Violent crime, total | 111 | 101 | +10% | 39 |
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 Lesbos and Lemnos?
Each year Eurostat publishes for Greece, 2021 to 2024: offences recorded by the Hellenic Police per 100,000 residents.
Property crime: 105 in 2021 and 94 in 2024, down 11%; Greece as a whole went from 680 to 716, up 5%. Violent crime: 119 in 2021 and 75 in 2024, down 37%; Greece as a whole went from 96 to 96, about the same.
| Year | Property crime | Violent crime | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lesbos and Lemnos | Greece | Lesbos and Lemnos | Greece | |
| 2021 | 105 | 680 | 119 | 96 |
| 2022 | 125 | 803 | 127 | 103 |
| 2023 | 108 | 775 | 123 | 108 |
| 2024 | 94 | 716 | 75 | 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 Lesbos and Lemnos
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
Are Lesbos and Lemnos safe?+
Lesbos and Lemnos (Λέσβος, Λήμνος) scores 71 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 108 property offences and 111 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.
Are Lesbos and Lemnos safe at night?+
SafetyMap has no time-of-day figures for Lesbos and Lemnos: the police data behind the score are yearly totals that do not say when offences happen, so its 71 out of 100 is for day and night alike.
How do Lesbos and Lemnos compare with the rest of Greece?+
For overall safety, Lesbos and Lemnos rank 23rd of Greece's 52 regional units, counting from the safest, at 71 out of 100 against 50 for the country as a whole. Their nearest regional units, for overall safety: Chios 88, Ikaria and Samos 69, Rhodope 72, Euboea 56, Evros 79, and East Attica 47. Lesbos and Lemnos are 2 points above their average of 69.