Μετς · district
Mets scores 44 out of 100 for property crime — average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 5,266 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.
Mets is a small, steep, leafy pocket between the Panathenaic Stadium, the First Cemetery and Neos Kosmos, full of pre-war and 1930s houses, marble sculpture workshops on Anapafseos and a handful of wine bars and tavernas. It is quieter and more architectural than Pangrati, with only a scattering of shops, and is sometimes called the Montmartre of Athens.
Very quiet. The streets are narrow, sloping and thinly lit, but residential throughout with almost no through traffic. Markou Mousourou is the main way in and out and stays reasonably lit.
Excellent for couples and older travellers: central, calm, ten minutes from the Zappeion and the Temple of Olympian Zeus. A poor choice for anyone who wants nightlife downstairs, and hard work if you dislike hills.
Reputation against reality. The First Cemetery on its doorstep puts some visitors off, but it functions as green space and an open-air sculpture museum, and is closed and gated at night.
Streets and squares: Markou Mousourou · Anapafseos · Trivonianou · Archimidous · Ardittou · Iliopoleos/Karea