By type of crime
- 88Overall safety
- 100Property crime
- 77Violent crime
Chios scores 100 out of 100 (police-recorded offences, Eurostat 2021–2024) for property crime — exceptionally low crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. Property crime 100 is where the scale ends, not a measurement: the rate, 36 offences per 100,000 residents a year, is below 85, where the scale stops, so places at 100 are not ranked against each other. It is home to about 52,674 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
Chios 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, Chios ranks joint 1st of Greece's 52 regional units, counting from the safest, at 100 out of 100 against 50 for the country as a whole. Property crime: 36 offences per 100,000 residents a year, 95% below the rate for Greece as a whole, 744. Against the Greek rate, its highest is burglary (−94%) and its lowest theft (−95%).
Its nearest regional units, for property crime: Lesbos and Lemnos 94, Ikaria and Samos 86, Cyclades 59, East Attica 43, North Athens 37, and Euboea 59. Chios is 37 points above their average of 63.
Chios is made up of islands with far more people in summer than live there. The rates are per resident, and offences involving visitors count against a population of 52,674 that does not include them, so per-resident figures can read higher than what residents experience.
| Offence | Chios | Greece | Against Greece | Rank of 46 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burglary | 7.1 | 127 | −94% | 1 |
| Theft | 29 | 617 | −95% | 1 |
| of which vehicle theft | 8.9 | 166 | −95% | 2 |
| Property crime, total | 36 | 744 | −95% | 1 |
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 Chios?
Each year Eurostat publishes for Greece, 2021 to 2024: offences recorded by the Hellenic Police per 100,000 residents.
Property crime: 27 in 2021 and 39 in 2024, up 43%; Greece as a whole went from 680 to 716, up 5%. Violent crime: 52 in 2021 and 33 in 2024, down 37%; Greece as a whole went from 96 to 96, about the same.
| Year | Property crime | Violent crime | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chios | Greece | Chios | Greece | |
| 2021 | 27 | 680 | 52 | 96 |
| 2022 | 31 | 803 | 39 | 103 |
| 2023 | 49 | 775 | 56 | 108 |
| 2024 | 39 | 716 | 33 | 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 Chios
3 places, by property 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
Is Chios safe?+
Chios (Χίος) scores 100 out of 100 for property crime on SafetyMap — exceptionally 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 36 property offences and 45 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year. Property crime 100 is where the scale ends, not a measurement: the rate, 36 offences per 100,000 residents a year, is below 85, where the scale stops, so places at 100 are not ranked against each other.
Is Chios safe at night?+
SafetyMap has no time-of-day figures for Chios: the police data behind the score are yearly totals that do not say when offences happen, so its 100 out of 100 is for day and night alike.
How does Chios compare with the rest of Greece?+
For property crime, Chios ranks joint 1st of Greece's 52 regional units, counting from the safest, at 100 out of 100 against 50 for the country as a whole. Its nearest regional units, for property crime: Lesbos and Lemnos 94, Ikaria and Samos 86, Cyclades 59, East Attica 43, North Athens 37, and Euboea 59. Chios is 37 points above their average of 63.