Γηροκομείο · district
Girokomeio scores 58 out of 100 for property crime — average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 22,063 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.
An eastern hillside district named for the historic monastery of the Girokomeio, one of the oldest in Greece, which still stands here. It is the greenest of the inner neighbourhoods: woodland with laid-out recreation areas, wide views over the gulf, an unusually good microclimate, the Konstantopouleio old people's home, and detached houses and low blocks along the approach roads. People come up for the monastery, the grove and the air. Against the dense districts below it is quieter, leafier and more expensive, and against Terpsithea and Pagona on the same slope it is higher, more open and more institutional. No crime reporting in the 2024-2026 record names it.
Very quiet. The woodland and monastery grounds are dark and empty after dusk; the residential roads are calm with modest lighting. There is no documented incident, patrol priority or burglary listing for Girokomeio.
Pleasant and quiet if you find a short let and have a car, and the views are the best in the city. Impractical without one, and a poor choice for an early Italy ferry — the South Port gates are a long way downhill and south.