By type of crime
- 48Overall safety
- 37Property crime
- 58Violent crime
Kentro scores 37 out of 100 (modelled estimate, Eurostat 2021–2024) for property crime — above-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. Kentro has no police figures of its own, so its estimate is Kalamaria's: both score 37 for property crime. An estimated 12,899 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 Kentro is actually like
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.
After dark
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.
What to watch for
- Property damage and theft on Friday and weekend nights
- Confronting groups - shopkeepers who did have been threatened
- Items left visible in parked cars
Staying here
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
Other neighbourhoods in Kalamaria
Nearby municipalities
Questions people ask
Is Kentro safe?+
SafetyMap estimates Kentro (Κέντρο) at 37 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 Kalamaria, since there are no police figures for Kentro itself. As a rate, the estimate comes to roughly 1,300 property and 78 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year. The written notes on this page class it as “Ordinary precautions”.
Is Kentro safe at night?+
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.
How does Kentro compare with the rest of Kalamaria?+
Kentro has no police figures of its own, so its estimate is Kalamaria's: both score 37 for property crime.