By type of crime
- 38Overall safety
- 39Property crime
- 37Violent crime
Agia Sofia scores 39 out of 100 (modelled estimate, Eurostat 2021–2024) for property crime — above-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. Agia Sofia has no police figures of its own. Its estimate is Piraeus's rate — Piraeus scores 38 for property crime — and the 1 point between them comes from how the model shares Piraeus's total out, not from anything measured in Agia Sofia. An estimated 12,493 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 Agia Sofia is actually like
Known to everyone as Maniatika, after the families from the Mani who settled here from the 1880s to be near dock work. A steep working-class grid of low 1950s-70s houses above the port, with Palamidiou as the commercial spine and the 1898-1902 Agia Sofia church at its heart. It borders Tabouria to the west and Palaia Kokkinia to the east. Maniatika metro station opened on 10 October 2022, pulling the district closer to the city. Maniatika's Thursday street market (laiki), 07:30-15:30, moves between streets every four months: Makedonias from late October, Kallergi from late February and Dramas from mid-June.
After dark
Residential and largely self-policing, with kafeneia open late on Palamidiou; the steep lanes off it are dark and empty after midnight. No incidents documented specifically here in 2024-26.
Staying here
Very few tourist beds and hard work with a suitcase, but the metro puts you two stops from the port. Practical rather than pleasant for a ferry morning; no reason to seek it out otherwise.
Reputation against reality. Outsiders read 'working-class hillside near the docks' as risk. On the ground it is a settled, long-established neighbourhood with an unusually strong local identity.
Streets and squares: Palamidiou · Agia Sofia church · Maniatika metro
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Questions people ask
Is Agia Sofia safe?+
SafetyMap estimates Agia Sofia (Αγία Σοφία) at 39 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 Piraeus, since there are no police figures for Agia Sofia itself. As a rate, the estimate comes to roughly 1,200 property and 150 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year. The written notes on this page class it as “Ordinary precautions”.
Is Agia Sofia safe at night?+
Residential and largely self-policing, with kafeneia open late on Palamidiou; the steep lanes off it are dark and empty after midnight. No incidents documented specifically here in 2024-26.
How does Agia Sofia compare with the rest of Piraeus?+
Agia Sofia has no police figures of its own. Its estimate is Piraeus's rate — Piraeus scores 38 for property crime — and the 1 point between them comes from how the model shares Piraeus's total out, not from anything measured in Agia Sofia.