Αγία Βαρβάρα · district
Agia Varvara scores 46 out of 100 for violent crime — average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 1,897 people at 618 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.
A residential neighbourhood extending south of the city centre at close range, named for its parish church. It is ordinary inner Patras: apartment blocks of various vintages, a few older houses, neighbourhood shops and schools, with a mix of families, older residents and students taking advantage of the short walk into town. There is no visitor attraction. Against Agia Triada, its immediate neighbour toward Prosfygika, it is quieter and has no documented policing profile; against Kryа Iteon and the districts further south it is much closer in and better connected, which makes it one of the more liveable of the southern inner quarters.
Quiet residential streets with reasonable lighting on the main axes. Some late footfall from people walking home from the centre. No incidents, patrol priorities or burglary listings in the 2024-2026 record name Agia Varvara.
Reasonable for a cheap short let within walking distance of the centre. For an early Italy ferry it is better placed than most inner districts — you are on the southern side — but still take a taxi to the South Port gates.