By type of crime
- 34Overall safety
- 37Property crime
- 31Violent crime
Zarouchleika scores 37 out of 100 (modelled estimate, Eurostat 2021–2024) for property crime — above-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. Zarouchleika has no police figures of its own. Its estimate starts from Patras's rate — Patras scores 55 for property crime — and is adjusted for documented local reporting about Zarouchleika. An estimated 2,210 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 Zarouchleika is actually like
One of the largest neighbourhoods in Patras, in the southern municipal sector, first settled after 1850 by farming families from Zaroukhla in the Kalavryta highlands and an independent community from 1912 until the city absorbed it. Today it is a big, mixed, mostly working-class district of post-war apartment blocks and older houses, with a workers' housing estate on Evias street at its core, local shops and schools. Nobody visits; people live here because it is cheap and close to the southern approaches. Against neighbouring Taraboura and Begoulaki it is much bigger and more built up, and against them it carries specific documented policing attention that they do not. Its permanent street market (laiki) is on Thursday mornings on Thoukydidou and Nikolaou Apostoli streets. Patras city buses run here: route 301 (Zarouchleika).
After dark
The residential streets are ordinary, but this is one of six districts put under targeted police patrols in July 2025, and police drug reporting in 2026 describes discreet transactions in dark, poorly lit spots here and at the Lefka workers' housing. The Evias street workers' estate has been reported as run down with rudimentary lighting in places.
What to watch for
- The workers' housing estate on Evias street (odos Evias) — decay, rubbish and weak lighting reported
- Unlit corners of the estate where police describe discreet drug transactions
- Ground-floor and balcony security: a burglary ring worked Zarouchleika at night by climbing drainpipes, air-conditioning units and awnings
Staying here
No — there is almost nothing to book, it is 3-4 km from the centre and it is one of the named patrol-priority districts. It is not on a sensible route to either port. Choose the centre, Ano Poli or Agios Andreas instead.
Reputation against reality. Anglophone safety sites list Zarouchleika as the Patras district to avoid at night. That is a fair flag but a blunt one: this is a district of some tens of thousands of ordinary residents, and the documented problems attach to particular blocks and the workers' estate rather than to the whole area.
Streets and squares: Evias (Ευβοίας)
Sources
- Peloponnisos - Patras: burglary gang broken up, two arrests, haul over 110,000 euros (Jun 2026)
- dete.gr - ELAS patrols in Patras: targeted checks in areas with intense delinquency (20 Jul 2025)
- Peloponnisos - Zarouchleika workers' housing: a neighbourhood in decline
- Wikipedia (el) - Zarouchleika
- Laikimap - Farmers' markets in Patras
- Diavgeia - Municipality of Patras, decision 98/2020: regulation for the operation of street markets
- Astiko KTEL Patras - Bus lines
Other neighbourhoods in Patras
Nearby municipalities
Questions people ask
Is Zarouchleika safe?+
SafetyMap estimates Zarouchleika (Ζαρουχλέικα) at 37 out of 100 for property crime — above-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, adjusted for documented local reporting about Zarouchleika; there are no police figures for Zarouchleika itself. As a rate, the estimate comes to roughly 1,300 property and 180 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year. The written notes on this page class it as “Fine by day, care after dark”.
Is Zarouchleika safe at night?+
The residential streets are ordinary, but this is one of six districts put under targeted police patrols in July 2025, and police drug reporting in 2026 describes discreet transactions in dark, poorly lit spots here and at the Lefka workers' housing. The Evias street workers' estate has been reported as run down with rudimentary lighting in places.
How does Zarouchleika compare with the rest of Patras?+
Zarouchleika has no police figures of its own. Its estimate starts from Patras's rate — Patras scores 55 for property crime — and is adjusted for documented local reporting about Zarouchleika.