By type of crime
- 60Overall safety
- 60Property crime
- 59Violent crime
Boeotia scores 60 out of 100 (police-recorded offences, Eurostat 2021–2024) for overall safety — average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 117,920 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
Boeotia 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, Boeotia ranks 33rd of Greece's 52 regional units, counting from the safest, at 60 out of 100 against 50 for the country as a whole. Property crime: 478 offences per 100,000 residents a year, 36% below the rate for Greece as a whole, 744. Violent crime: 75 offences per 100,000 residents a year, 25% below the rate for Greece as a whole, 101. Against the Greek rate, its highest is burglary (≈ 0%) and its lowest robbery (−59%).
Its nearest regional units, for overall safety: West Attica 27, Corinthia 55, Euboea 56, West Athens 36, Central Athens 29, and North Athens 42. Boeotia is 19 points above their average of 41.
| Offence | Boeotia | Greece | Against Greece | Rank of 46 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burglary | 125 | 127 | ≈ 0% | 39 |
| Theft | 353 | 617 | −43% | 37 |
| of which vehicle theft | 99 | 166 | −40% | 31 |
| Property crime, total | 478 | 744 | −36% | 37 |
| Assault | 64 | 74 | −14% | 26 |
| Robbery | 10 | 26 | −59% | 42 |
| Intentional homicide | 0.9 | 0.8 | +19% | 30 |
| Violent crime, total | 75 | 101 | −25% | 28 |
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 Boeotia?
Each year Eurostat publishes for Greece, 2021 to 2024: offences recorded by the Hellenic Police per 100,000 residents.
Property crime: 414 in 2021 and 511 in 2024, up 23%; Greece as a whole went from 680 to 716, up 5%. Violent crime: 86 in 2021 and 62 in 2024, down 28%; Greece as a whole went from 96 to 96, about the same.
| Year | Property crime | Violent crime | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boeotia | Greece | Boeotia | Greece | |
| 2021 | 414 | 680 | 86 | 96 |
| 2022 | 544 | 803 | 88 | 103 |
| 2023 | 443 | 775 | 66 | 108 |
| 2024 | 511 | 716 | 62 | 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 Boeotia
6 places, by overall safety
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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
Is Boeotia safe?+
Boeotia (Βοιωτία) scores 60 out of 100 for overall safety on SafetyMap — 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 478 property offences and 75.4 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.
Is Boeotia safe at night?+
SafetyMap has no time-of-day figures for Boeotia: the police data behind the score are yearly totals that do not say when offences happen, so its 60 out of 100 is for day and night alike.
How does Boeotia compare with the rest of Greece?+
For overall safety, Boeotia ranks 33rd of Greece's 52 regional units, counting from the safest, at 60 out of 100 against 50 for the country as a whole. Its nearest regional units, for overall safety: West Attica 27, Corinthia 55, Euboea 56, West Athens 36, Central Athens 29, and North Athens 42. Boeotia is 19 points above their average of 41.