By type of crime
- 36Overall safety
- 36Property crime
- 37Violent crime
Evosmos scores 36 out of 100 (modelled estimate, Eurostat 2021–2024) for overall safety — above-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. Evosmos 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 Evosmos. An estimated 514 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 Evosmos is actually like
The seat of the municipality and, with 79,221 residents, one of the largest urban districts in Greece - built out from a 1920s refugee settlement. It has a real centre with a busy square and markets, and carries more sustained crime reporting than anywhere else in these four municipalities: shop break-ins, repeated police juvenile-delinquency sweeps, and a police union complaint that the local crime squad is seriously understaffed.
After dark
Evosmos Square is the documented flashpoint, for friction between groups of teenagers rather than attacks on adults - in April 2026 a 15-year-old was charged after attacking three girls aged 13 and 14 there. Overnight, the recorded risk is to shopfronts; shopkeepers have asked for policing after 00:30.
What to watch for
- Evosmos Square, especially weekend afternoons and evenings
- Shopfront break-ins overnight
- Groups of under-18s - repeatedly targeted by police operations
Staying here
No - not for visitors. Residential, far from the sights and the most consistently reported district here. Fine to visit by day.
Reputation against reality. Over 100 complaints were filed about Evosmos Square via the MyStreet app in October 2025. These were about table-and-chair permits for shops, not safety - guides that cite the complaint count as evidence of crime are misreading it.
Streets and squares: Plateia Evosmou
Sources
- in.gr - 15-year-old charged over attack on three girls at Evosmos Square
- eMakedonia - minors checks in Evosmos-Kordelio
- Voria - EAYTH on understaffing at the Evosmos-Kordelio crime squad
- Wikipedia (el) - Evosmos
- ERT News - western Thessaloniki residents ask for more policing
- Voria - MyStreet complaints about Evosmos Square (permits)
Other neighbourhoods in Kordelio-Evosmos
Nearby municipalities
Questions people ask
Is Evosmos safe?+
SafetyMap estimates Evosmos (Εύοσμος) at 36 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 Evosmos; there are no police figures for Evosmos itself. As a rate, the estimate comes to roughly 1,400 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 Evosmos safe at night?+
Evosmos Square is the documented flashpoint, for friction between groups of teenagers rather than attacks on adults - in April 2026 a 15-year-old was charged after attacking three girls aged 13 and 14 there. Overnight, the recorded risk is to shopfronts; shopkeepers have asked for policing after 00:30.
How does Evosmos compare with the rest of Kordelio-Evosmos?+
Evosmos 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 Evosmos.