Ταραμπούρα · district
Taraboura 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 2,006 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.
A southern district near the Glafkos river crossing, between Zarouchleika and Begoulaki, named after the nickname of Dimitrios Aravantinos, a nineteenth-century property owner who ran a cafe here. It is plain residential Patras with a workers' housing estate, Patra 5, at its core, plus older houses, small blocks and neighbourhood shops. There is no visitor interest. Against Zarouchleika immediately north it is smaller and, importantly, carries none of the documented policing attention; against Metamorfosi Sotiros across the Glafkos it is older and closer in. Complaints here have been about estate conditions rather than crime.
Quiet residential streets with modest lighting; the river corridor and open ground toward the Glafkos are dark. Problems raised in parliament about the Patra 5 workers' housing concern conditions and upkeep, not safety. No documented incidents or patrol priorities name Taraboura.
No — very little to book, nothing to see, and the centre serves you better. Being south helps a little for the Italy ferries but you will still want a taxi to the South Port.
Streets and squares: Ergatikes Katoikies Patra 5