Πηγάδα · district
Pigada scores 39 out of 100 for property crime — above-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 2,370 people at 13,556 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.
One of the oldest neighbourhoods, on a low hill near the middle of the peninsula facing Kallipoli, named for a large well sunk when the first drinking-water cisterns were installed. It was grazing land with three mills before it was built up along Dexameni and Chatzikyriakou toward Agios Vasileios. The old reservoir ground is now a planted square. Its real function today is a junction linking Marina Zea, Chatzikyriakeio, central Piraeus and the harbour.
A traffic node rather than a nightlife spot, lit and overlooked, with cars passing steadily between the marina and the centre. Nothing documented here in 2024-26.
Central, ordinary and within 15 minutes' walk of both Zea and the terminals, but with little purpose-built accommodation. Perfectly fine if a rental happens to be here; not somewhere to search out.
Streets and squares: Plateia Pigadas · Dexameni · Chatzikyriakou