Άγιος Ανδρέας · district
Aghios Andreas scores 57 out of 100 for property crime — average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 700 people at 618 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 central quarter spreading around the great domed Cathedral of Saint Andrew at the southern end of the seafront, between the lower-city grid and the water. It is a working central neighbourhood — apartment blocks, shops, offices, the odd hotel — with pilgrims and coach parties for the cathedral by day and residents the rest of the time. It matters to travellers because it is the practical end of town for transport: the railway and intercity bus stations and the North (Old) Port are all close, and guides name it as the convenient choice for an early ferry. Against Ano Poli it is plainer and noisier; against the port strip proper it is far more populated and better lit.
Reasonably busy until late along the main avenues and the seafront, with restaurants and bars keeping footfall up. The back streets inland thin out after midnight. This is central Patras, where most of the city's recorded street theft happens — police counted 261 thefts of items in outdoor public spaces citywide in the first nine months of 2025.
Yes — the most practical base in Patras if you have a boat to catch. Note which port: the North (Old) Port on the waterfront is under ten minutes' walk from the rail and bus stations, but the Italy sailings go from the South (New) Port about 4 km away, reached by bus 18 or taxi.
Streets and squares: Othonos Amalias (seafront) · Agiou Andreou