Αρετσού · district
Aretsou scores 48 out of 100 for overall safety — average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 4,806 people at 12,861 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.
The seafront quarter immediately north of Nea Krini, named after Aretsou near Constantinople, centred on the marina and the coastal promenade. It is among the most expensive addresses in Thessaloniki outside Panorama, and got its own metro station on Pontou street in 2025. Aretsou draws people from across the city for the waterfront walk and the cafe strip. Nothing in Greek police releases or local press identifies Aretsou as a crime location; the documented Kalamaria incidents are recorded municipality-wide.
Lively along the water in summer and well-lit - the municipality specifically upgraded lighting on the Aretsou-Krini seafront. Inland residential blocks are quiet and unremarkable after dark.
Yes. Expensive by Thessaloniki standards, calm, attractive and now metro-connected.
Streets and squares: Pontou (Aretsou metro station)