By type of crime
- 51Overall safety
- 56Property crime
- 45Violent crime
Ypsila Alonia scores 56 out of 100 (modelled estimate, Eurostat 2021–2024) for property crime — average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. Ypsila Alonia has no police figures of its own. Its estimate is Patras's rate — Patras scores 55 for property crime — and the 1 point between them comes from how the model shares Patras's total out, not from anything measured in Ypsila Alonia. An estimated 1,043 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 Ypsila Alonia is actually like
The great belvedere square on the shelf between the upper and lower city, formerly Plateia Benizelou Roufou, ringed by neoclassical facades and palm trees and long used as a postcard image of Patras. It is a residential and cafe quarter rather than a nightlife one, with an older resident population, a few hotels and the Skagiopouleio children's home on Benizelou Roufou street just below. People come for the view over the gulf, the church of Agios Andreas Palaios nearby and the walk down to the centre. Against neighbouring Ano Poli it is flatter, easier to walk and better connected, but its centrepiece square has been visibly let go and is currently the shabbiest of the city's big public spaces.
After dark
Quiet and residential rather than threatening. The square itself is poorly maintained — dead lawns, a dry fountain, patchy lighting — and press coverage describes it as delivered over to illegality and drugs in the recent past, though it is not on the current police patrol priority list. Cafes around the edge keep it populated until midnight.
What to watch for
- The square's own dark corners and dead fountain area late at night
- Benizelou Roufou street, named in police reporting on the Skagiopouleio pocket
- The stepped descents to the lower city, unlit in stretches
Staying here
Yes, a reasonable and fairly quiet base with hotels and short lets, within a 10-15 minute walk of the centre. For an early Italy ferry from the South (New) Port you will still need a taxi; for the North (Old) Port it is walkable with light luggage.
Reputation against reality. Reputation lags reality downward: locals still talk about the square as a drugs spot, but the documented drug geography of 2026 puts the concentrations at Plateia Olgas, Plateia Pindou and Plateia Eleftherias, not here. Its actual problem is neglect, not crime.
Streets and squares: Plateia Ypsilon Alonion · Benizelou Roufou
Other neighbourhoods in Patras
Nearby municipalities
Questions people ask
Is Ypsila Alonia safe?+
SafetyMap estimates Ypsila Alonia (Υψηλά Αλώνια) at 56 out of 100 for property crime — 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 Patras, since there are no police figures for Ypsila Alonia itself. As a rate, the estimate comes to roughly 560 property and 120 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year. The written notes on this page class it as “Fine by day, care after dark”.
Is Ypsila Alonia safe at night?+
Quiet and residential rather than threatening. The square itself is poorly maintained — dead lawns, a dry fountain, patchy lighting — and press coverage describes it as delivered over to illegality and drugs in the recent past, though it is not on the current police patrol priority list. Cafes around the edge keep it populated until midnight.
How does Ypsila Alonia compare with the rest of Patras?+
Ypsila Alonia has no police figures of its own. Its estimate is Patras's rate — Patras scores 55 for property crime — and the 1 point between them comes from how the model shares Patras's total out, not from anything measured in Ypsila Alonia.