By type of crime
- 33Overall safety
- 34Property crime
- 31Violent crime
Patisia scores 34 out of 100 (modelled estimate, Eurostat 2021–2024) for property crime — above-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. Patisia has no police figures of its own. Its estimate is Athens's rate — Athens scores 28 for property crime — and the 6 points between them come from how the model shares Athens's total out, not from anything measured in Patisia. An estimated 12,059 people live there: the 2021 census counts the surrounding community as a whole, and this is its share by area.
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
What Patisia is actually like
Less a neighbourhood than a 4.5-kilometre axis — Patision, officially 28is Oktovriou — running from the Polytechnic north through Victoria, Amerikis and Koliatsou to Ano Patisia. It carries the National Archaeological Museum, ASOEE, old cinemas and department stores, and hundreds of thousands of residents in the blocks either side. Its character changes every few hundred metres: the southern kilometre behaves like Omonia, the northern half like an ordinary outer district.
After dark
The rule of thumb locals use is that the lower kilometre between Omonia and Pedion tou Areos is the problem and it normalises as you go north past Victoria; after midnight the side streets off Patision are the risk, not the avenue.
What to watch for
- Pickpocketing and chain-snatching along the Patision corridor and at its stations — Patisia and Acropolis together logged 23 cases and 21 arrests in 2026
- Street sex work reported along Patision above Plateia Amerikis towards Agios Loukas
- Named side streets in crime reporting: Fylis, Methymnis, Lelas Karagianni, Ioulianou, Ipeirou, Antoniadou
- The junction blocks at Victoria, where tourists most often feel out of place
Staying here
A poor first-trip choice and a defensible long-stay one. Hotels near the Archaeological Museum work if you are visiting it; anything south of Victoria puts you in the part everyone warns about.
Reputation against reality. Blanket 'avoid Patisia' advice is too crude to be useful. A visitor walking Patision at 11am to the Archaeological Museum is doing something completely normal; the same person on Fylis at 2am is not.
Streets and squares: Patision (28is Oktovriou) · Acharnon · 3is Septemvriou · Fylis · Methymnis · Lelas Karagianni
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Questions people ask
Is Patisia safe?+
SafetyMap estimates Patisia (Πατήσια) at 34 out of 100 for property crime — above-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the Greek average. It is a modelled estimate, not a count of crimes recorded there: it comes from the estimate for Athens, since there are no police figures for Patisia itself. As a rate, the estimate comes to roughly 1,500 property and 180 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year. The written notes on this page class it as “Fine by day, care after dark”.
Is Patisia safe at night?+
The rule of thumb locals use is that the lower kilometre between Omonia and Pedion tou Areos is the problem and it normalises as you go north past Victoria; after midnight the side streets off Patision are the risk, not the avenue.
How does Patisia compare with the rest of Athens?+
Patisia has no police figures of its own. Its estimate is Athens's rate — Athens scores 28 for property crime — and the 6 points between them come from how the model shares Athens's total out, not from anything measured in Patisia.