Κέντρο · district
Kentro scores 38 out of 100 for property crime — above-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 12,899 people at 12,861 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.
Kalamaria's own commercial core around Plateia Skra and the municipal buildings - the densest part of the municipality, with the shops, cafes and services. This is where Kalamaria's one sustained, well-documented safety story sits. Through 2025 the municipality hired a private security company to patrol the centre after repeated damage and theft affecting homes, shops and parked cars, and ERT broadcast footage of minors forcing a shopfront. Police followed with repeated juvenile-delinquency sweeps into 2026.
The problem is concentrated in night hours, mainly Fridays and weekends, involving groups of young people in dark clothing and hoods who damage property and have threatened shopkeepers who confront them. This is property crime and intimidation rather than attacks on passers-by.
Yes, with normal city sense. Well-lit, busy, metro-connected and heavily patrolled; the documented pattern targets property, not visitors on the street.
Streets and squares: Plateia Skra