Property crime in Argolis and Arcadia
Αργολίδα, Αρκαδία · Regional unit
Measured: police-recorded offence rateBy type of crime
- 65Overall safety
- 64Property crime
- 65Violent crime
Argolis and Arcadia scores 64 out of 100 (police-recorded offences, Eurostat 2021–2024) for property crime — below-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 183,729 people (2021 census).
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
Argolis and Arcadia in the police figures
Eurostat publishes the offences recorded by the Hellenic Police in each regional unit. The figures here are the yearly mean of 2021–2024, per 100,000 residents, next to the rate for Greece as a whole.
For property crime, Argolis and Arcadia rank 34th of Greece's 52 regional units, counting from the safest, at 64 out of 100 against 50 for the country as a whole. Property crime: 398 offences per 100,000 residents a year, 46% below the rate for Greece as a whole, 744. Against the Greek rate, their highest is theft (−44%) and their lowest burglary (−59%).
Their nearest regional units, for property crime: Corinthia 49, Laconia and Messenia 64, Piraeus and the Islands 41, Achaea 59, Elis 58, and West Attica 35. Argolis and Arcadia are 13 points above their average of 51.
| Offence | Argolis and Arcadia | Greece | Against Greece | Rank of 46 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burglary | 51 | 127 | −59% | 29 |
| Theft | 346 | 617 | −44% | 36 |
| of which vehicle theft | 66 | 166 | −60% | 22 |
| Property crime, total | 398 | 744 | −47% | 34 |
Rank among the 46 areas Eurostat reports — the 45 regional units outside Attica and Attica as a whole — 1 being the lowest rate.
Is crime rising or falling in Argolis and Arcadia?
Each year Eurostat publishes for Greece, 2021 to 2024: offences recorded by the Hellenic Police per 100,000 residents.
Property crime: 342 in 2021 and 488 in 2024, up 43%; Greece as a whole went from 680 to 716, up 5%. Violent crime: 60 in 2021 and 59 in 2024, down 3%; Greece as a whole went from 96 to 96, about the same.
| Year | Property crime | Violent crime | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Argolis and Arcadia | Greece | Argolis and Arcadia | Greece | |
| 2021 | 342 | 680 | 60 | 96 |
| 2022 | 415 | 803 | 72 | 103 |
| 2023 | 346 | 775 | 65 | 108 |
| 2024 | 488 | 716 | 59 | 96 |
A regional unit's yearly rate moves with a handful of cases, and it is divided by residents, not visitors. That is why the score uses the mean of all 4 years.
Municipalities in Argolis and Arcadia
9 places, by property crime
Safest
Most crime
All municipalities, largest first
The number on the right is how many people live there. The one on the left is its safety score out of 100.
Neighbouring regional units
Questions people ask
Are Argolis and Arcadia safe?+
Argolis and Arcadia (Αργολίδα, Αρκαδία) scores 64 out of 100 for property crime on SafetyMap — below-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the Greek average. That is based on police-recorded offence rates reported to Eurostat for 2021–2024. That works out to about 398 property offences and 63.9 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.
Are Argolis and Arcadia safe at night?+
SafetyMap has no time-of-day figures for Argolis and Arcadia: the police data behind the score are yearly totals that do not say when offences happen, so its 64 out of 100 is for day and night alike.
How do Argolis and Arcadia compare with the rest of Greece?+
For property crime, Argolis and Arcadia rank 34th of Greece's 52 regional units, counting from the safest, at 64 out of 100 against 50 for the country as a whole. Their nearest regional units, for property crime: Corinthia 49, Laconia and Messenia 64, Piraeus and the Islands 41, Achaea 59, Elis 58, and West Attica 35. Argolis and Arcadia are 13 points above their average of 51.