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Kato Evosmos property crime

Κάτω Εύοσμος · district

46/100

Kato Evosmos scores 46 out of 100 for property crimeaverage crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 10,694 people at 7,743 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.

What Kato Evosmos is actually like

Fine by day, care after darkNormal by day and worth visiting. What changes after dark is specific and avoidable rather than general.

The lower, older central part of Evosmos, below the ring road and closest to Kordelio and the city. This is the dense commercial core where the shops, the square and the street market life are, and it carries the district's documented problems by default - the shop break-in reporting and the juvenile-delinquency operations are recorded for Evosmos without splitting upper from lower, and the commercial frontages that were targeted are concentrated here.

After dark

Busy until the shops shut, then quickly empty. The documented overnight risk is to shopfronts rather than to people; the request from local businesses was specifically for policing after 00:30.

What to watch for

  • Shopfront break-ins after closing
  • The central square and its approaches on weekend evenings
  • Empty commercial streets late

Staying here

No. Dense, residential-commercial and far from anything a visitor comes to Thessaloniki for.

Streets and squares: Plateia Evosmou