By type of crime
- 48Overall safety
- 63Property crime
- 33Violent crime
Zakynthos scores 63 out of 100 (police-recorded offences, Eurostat 2021–2024) for property crime — below-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 40,759 people (2021 census).
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
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Zakynthos in the police figures
Eurostat publishes the offences recorded by the Hellenic Police in each regional unit. The figures here are the yearly mean of 2021–2024, per 100,000 residents, next to the rate for Greece as a whole.
For property crime, Zakynthos ranks 36th of Greece's 52 regional units, counting from the safest, at 63 out of 100 against 50 for the country as a whole. Property crime: 414 offences per 100,000 residents a year, 44% below the rate for Greece as a whole, 744. Against the Greek rate, its highest is burglary (−26%) and its lowest theft (−48%).
Its nearest regional units, for property crime: Kefalonia and Ithaca 86, Elis 58, Lefkada 72, Achaea 59, Aetolia-Acarnania 65, and Evrytania 100. Zakynthos is 10 points below their average of 73.
Zakynthos is made up of islands with far more people in summer than live there. The rates are per resident, and offences involving visitors count against a population of 40,759 that does not include them, so per-resident figures can read higher than what residents experience.
| Offence | Zakynthos | Greece | Against Greece | Rank of 46 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burglary | 94 | 127 | −26% | 37 |
| Theft | 321 | 617 | −48% | 34 |
| of which vehicle theft | 128 | 166 | −23% | 38 |
| Property crime, total | 414 | 744 | −44% | 36 |
Rank among the 46 areas Eurostat reports — the 45 regional units outside Attica and Attica as a whole — 1 being the lowest rate.
Is crime rising or falling in Zakynthos?
Each year Eurostat publishes for Greece, 2021 to 2024: offences recorded by the Hellenic Police per 100,000 residents.
Property crime: 324 in 2021 and 456 in 2024, up 41%; Greece as a whole went from 680 to 716, up 5%. Violent crime: 182 in 2021 and 146 in 2024, down 20%; Greece as a whole went from 96 to 96, about the same.
| Year | Property crime | Violent crime | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zakynthos | Greece | Zakynthos | Greece | |
| 2021 | 324 | 680 | 182 | 96 |
| 2022 | 411 | 803 | 177 | 103 |
| 2023 | 468 | 775 | 157 | 108 |
| 2024 | 456 | 716 | 146 | 96 |
A regional unit's yearly rate moves with a handful of cases, and it is divided by residents, not visitors. That is why the score uses the mean of all 4 years.
Municipalities in Zakynthos
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The number on the right is how many people live there. The one on the left is its safety score out of 100.
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Questions people ask
Is Zakynthos safe?+
Zakynthos (Ζάκυνθος) scores 63 out of 100 for property crime on SafetyMap — below-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the Greek average. That is based on police-recorded offence rates reported to Eurostat for 2021–2024. That works out to about 414 property offences and 165.6 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.
Is Zakynthos safe at night?+
SafetyMap has no time-of-day figures for Zakynthos: the police data behind the score are yearly totals that do not say when offences happen, so its 63 out of 100 is for day and night alike.
How does Zakynthos compare with the rest of Greece?+
For property crime, Zakynthos ranks 36th of Greece's 52 regional units, counting from the safest, at 63 out of 100 against 50 for the country as a whole. Its nearest regional units, for property crime: Kefalonia and Ithaca 86, Elis 58, Lefkada 72, Achaea 59, Aetolia-Acarnania 65, and Evrytania 100. Zakynthos is 10 points below their average of 73.