Property crime in Arta and Preveza
Άρτα, Πρέβεζα · Regional unit
Measured: police-recorded offence rateBy type of crime
- 74Overall safety
- 84Property crime
- 65Violent crime
Arta and Preveza scores 84 out of 100 (police-recorded offences, Eurostat 2021–2024) for property crime — very low crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 125,368 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
Arta and Preveza 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, Arta and Preveza rank 18th of Greece's 52 regional units, counting from the safest, at 84 out of 100 against 50 for the country as a whole. Property crime: 173 offences per 100,000 residents a year, 77% below the rate for Greece as a whole, 744. Against the Greek rate, their highest is burglary (−65%) and their lowest theft (−79%).
Their nearest regional units, for property crime: Thesprotia 86, Ioannina 90, Lefkada 72, Evrytania 100, Trikala and Karditsa 94, and Aetolia-Acarnania 65. Arta and Preveza are 1 points below their average of 85.
| Offence | Arta and Preveza | Greece | Against Greece | Rank of 46 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burglary | 44 | 127 | −65% | 25 |
| Theft | 128 | 617 | −79% | 16 |
| of which vehicle theft | 34 | 166 | −79% | 12 |
| Property crime, total | 173 | 744 | −77% | 18 |
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 Arta and Preveza?
Each year Eurostat publishes for Greece, 2021 to 2024: offences recorded by the Hellenic Police per 100,000 residents.
Property crime: 187 in 2021 and 175 in 2024, down 7%; Greece as a whole went from 680 to 716, up 5%. Violent crime: 58 in 2021 and 71 in 2024, up 22%; Greece as a whole went from 96 to 96, about the same.
| Year | Property crime | Violent crime | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arta and Preveza | Greece | Arta and Preveza | Greece | |
| 2021 | 187 | 680 | 58 | 96 |
| 2022 | 148 | 803 | 64 | 103 |
| 2023 | 182 | 775 | 63 | 108 |
| 2024 | 175 | 716 | 71 | 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 Arta and Preveza
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The number on the right is how many people live there. The one on the left is its safety score out of 100.
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Are Arta and Preveza safe?+
Arta and Preveza (Άρτα, Πρέβεζα) scores 84 out of 100 for property crime on SafetyMap — very low 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 173 property offences and 64.2 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.
Are Arta and Preveza safe at night?+
SafetyMap has no time-of-day figures for Arta and Preveza: the police data behind the score are yearly totals that do not say when offences happen, so its 84 out of 100 is for day and night alike.
How do Arta and Preveza compare with the rest of Greece?+
For property crime, Arta and Preveza rank 18th of Greece's 52 regional units, counting from the safest, at 84 out of 100 against 50 for the country as a whole. Their nearest regional units, for property crime: Thesprotia 86, Ioannina 90, Lefkada 72, Evrytania 100, Trikala and Karditsa 94, and Aetolia-Acarnania 65. Arta and Preveza are 1 points below their average of 85.