Crime and safety in Eleftherio-Kordelio
Ελευθέριο-Κορδελιό · District
Modelled estimate — how it is madeBy type of crime
- 30Overall safety
- 25Property crime
- 36Violent crime
Eleftherio-Kordelio scores 30 out of 100 (modelled estimate, Eurostat 2021–2024) for overall safety — above-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. Eleftherio-Kordelio has no police figures of its own. Its estimate starts from Kordelio-Evosmos's rate — Kordelio-Evosmos scores 42 for overall safety — and is adjusted for documented local reporting about Eleftherio-Kordelio. It is home to about 27,067 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
What Eleftherio-Kordelio is actually like
The municipality's southern half, between Evosmos and the industrial belt, and the district with the sharpest single piece of crime reporting in western Thessaloniki: in February 2024 one Kordelio shop was reported to have been targeted thirty times in a single year, and the head of the local commercial association said owners were sleeping in their shops and running their own patrols. Set against that, it is a settled neighbourhood with a Sunday flea market on Riga Fereou and a church square.
After dark
The documented problem is repeat break-ins at commercial premises after closing, not violence against people on the street. Residents' associations have asked for reinforced policing. Air quality from the adjacent refinery and industrial zone is a separate, genuinely documented local grievance.
What to watch for
- Repeat break-ins at shops and businesses overnight
- Industrial odour and air quality, a standing resident complaint
- Quiet streets between the residential core and the industrial edge
Staying here
No. Residential and industrial-adjacent, with nothing for visitors and a long trip to the centre.
Streets and squares: Riga Fereou (Sunday flea market)
Other neighbourhoods in Kordelio-Evosmos
Nearby municipalities
Questions people ask
Is Eleftherio-Kordelio safe?+
SafetyMap estimates Eleftherio-Kordelio (Ελευθέριο-Κορδελιό) at 30 out of 100 for overall safety — above-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 Kordelio-Evosmos, adjusted for documented local reporting about Eleftherio-Kordelio; there are no police figures for Eleftherio-Kordelio itself. As a rate, the estimate comes to roughly 2,200 property and 150 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year. The written notes on this page class it as “Fine by day, care after dark”.
Is Eleftherio-Kordelio safe at night?+
The documented problem is repeat break-ins at commercial premises after closing, not violence against people on the street. Residents' associations have asked for reinforced policing. Air quality from the adjacent refinery and industrial zone is a separate, genuinely documented local grievance.
How does Eleftherio-Kordelio compare with the rest of Kordelio-Evosmos?+
Eleftherio-Kordelio has no police figures of its own. Its estimate starts from Kordelio-Evosmos's rate — Kordelio-Evosmos scores 42 for overall safety — and is adjusted for documented local reporting about Eleftherio-Kordelio.