Κάτω Καστριτσίου · district
Kato Kastritsiou 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 1,046 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 community of the Rio municipal unit built on the foothills of Mount Panachaiko at 96 m, bordering Rio, the University of Patras and Ano Kastritsi. A hillside settlement of detached houses with views over the gulf, part of the university's residential hinterland. It has one documented crime link: a convicted burglar was tied to break-ins here.
Quiet and dark on the hillside lanes, with no late footfall. The documented risk is burglary of houses, not street crime.
Reasonable and quiet if you are here for the university and have a car. Far from the Italy ferry gates, so not a base for an early sailing.