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Asyrmatos scores 34 out of 100 for property crime — above-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 8,881 people at 16,579 people per km².
The score is absolute, not a ranking: 50 is the offence rate for Greece as a whole, 100 the safest end of the scale and 0 the least safe, and every doubling of the rate costs the same number of points wherever you are. Regional units are scored from Eurostat's police-recorded offence rates per 100,000 inhabitants. Greece publishes nothing finer, so municipalities and districts share out their region's measured rate by how built-up they are and by documented local reporting — treat those two levels as an estimate, not a count of reported crime.
Asyrmatos — also called Attaliotika or ta Petrina — is a small settlement of roughly 170 stone houses on the western slope of Filopappou above Ano Petralona, built in 1955-57 for refugees from Attaleia using stone salvaged from the burnt naval wireless school. It is one of the prettiest corners of Athens and the setting of the censored 1961 film Synoikia to Oneiro.
The houses themselves are quiet and neighbourly. The problem is the route home: the unlit Filopappou and Pnyx footpaths that link it to Thiseio and Koukaki are the most consistently documented mugging location in central Athens.
Charming for a stay if you arrive and leave by the Ano Petralona streets rather than over the hill. Avoid if you will regularly be walking home late across the archaeological paths in the dark.
Reputation against reality. The old 'shanty town' label attaches to its 1920s-50s history, not to the present stone-house settlement, which is now among the most sought-after addresses on the hill.
Streets and squares: Filopappou Hill footpaths · Ano Petralona streets · Pnyx (Pnyka)