Crime and safety in Agios Panteleimonas
Άγιος Παντελεήμονας · District
Modelled estimate — how it is madeBy type of crime
- 48Overall safety
- 37Property crime
- 59Violent crime
Agios Panteleimonas scores 48 out of 100 (modelled estimate, Eurostat 2021–2024) for overall safety — average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. Agios Panteleimonas has no police figures of its own, so its estimate is Kalamaria's: both score 48 for overall safety. An estimated 8,047 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 Agios Panteleimonas is actually like
Not a separate district so much as the parish name for the area around its church, used interchangeably with Votsi in municipal and heritage records. Inland, residential, built over one of the 1920s refugee settlements and now indistinguishable from the apartment blocks around it. There is no crime reporting, no travel coverage and no forum discussion specific to Agios Panteleimonas. Anyone writing confidently about how safe it is, in either direction, is extrapolating from Kalamaria as a whole. The nearest weekly street markets (laiki) are Saturday's on Makrochoriou street, about 350 m beyond its edge, and Friday's on Zirganou street, about 550 m away.
After dark
Quiet and residential. No documented incidents, no nightlife, no reason for anyone to be there after dark who does not live there.
What to watch for
- Nothing area-specific is documented
Staying here
Fine, but there is no reason to seek it out over Kalamaria centre or the seafront.
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Questions people ask
Is Agios Panteleimonas safe?+
SafetyMap estimates Agios Panteleimonas (Άγιος Παντελεήμονας) at 48 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 Kalamaria, since there are no police figures for Agios Panteleimonas itself. As a rate, the estimate comes to roughly 1,300 property and 78 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year. The written notes on this page class it as “Ordinary precautions”.
Is Agios Panteleimonas safe at night?+
Quiet and residential. No documented incidents, no nightlife, no reason for anyone to be there after dark who does not live there.
How does Agios Panteleimonas compare with the rest of Kalamaria?+
Agios Panteleimonas has no police figures of its own, so its estimate is Kalamaria's: both score 48 for overall safety.