By type of crime
- 34Overall safety
- 37Property crime
- 31Violent crime
Prosfigika scores 31 out of 100 (modelled estimate, Eurostat 2021–2024) for violent crime — above-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. Prosfigika has no police figures of its own. Its estimate starts from Patras's rate — Patras scores 47 for violent crime — and is adjusted for documented local reporting about Prosfigika. An estimated 775 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 Prosfigika is actually like
The first refugee settlement in Patras, built from 1926-28 for families from Asia Minor, and still recognisable as a planned estate of low terraces on a grid of narrow streets in the south-west of the city. It is a poor, densely built quarter with a long-settled population, some of the cheapest housing in Patras, and a municipal renovation programme part-completed. Outsiders go for the architecture — it is genuinely photogenic and often paired with Agia Aikaterini in local features on Patras's picturesque old quarters. It is also the most consistently named district in Hellenic Police reporting on the city, which is the single biggest difference between it and every other inner neighbourhood on this list. The Friday-morning street market (laiki) sets up on Damonos street and its side streets, Nikaias, Efesou, Pergamou, Proussis and Fanariou, for four months at a time, alternating with nearby Smyrnis street.
After dark
This is the entry where the after-dark question is real. Residents told the local press in July 2026 that they are afraid to go out when it gets dark, citing inadequate street lighting; the municipality admitted its lighting works were unfinished. Police drug reporting describes specific houses and alleys here as hard to patrol with night-time activity.
What to watch for
- Ionias, Pontou, Damonos and Efesou streets — the blocks residents name for poor lighting
- The Ionias-Pontou junction specifically: broken fittings and exposed cable reported
- Narrow alleys off the estate grid after dark
- Walking through as a short cut at night rather than going round
Staying here
No. Not because it is uniformly dangerous but because there is essentially nothing to book, it is the district with the most documented policing problems, and it is neither near the centre nor convenient for either port. Stay in the centre or Ano Poli and visit by day if you want to see it.
Reputation against reality. The local press has used sensational framing for this quarter for years. Set against that, the concrete documented record is specific and narrower: poor lighting on four named streets, drug activity in particular alleys, assaults on officers during interventions, and repeated inclusion in patrol priorities. The estate as a whole is a poor, ordinary, largely elderly residential neighbourhood.
Streets and squares: Ionias · Pontou · Damonos · Efesou
Sources
- Peloponnisos - Shadows when night falls in Prosfygika: 'we're afraid to go out at night', residents say (17 Jul 2026)
- dete.gr - ELAS patrols in Patras: targeted checks in areas with intense delinquency (20 Jul 2025)
- Peloponnisos - Crime surge in Achaia: which areas are under siege from burglaries (14 May 2026)
- dete.gr - The new generation of drugs and the invisible distribution network (17 May 2026)
- Wikipedia (el) - Prosfygika, Patras
- Laikimap - Farmers' markets in Patras
- Diavgeia - Municipality of Patras, decision 98/2020: regulation for the operation of street markets
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Questions people ask
Is Prosfigika safe?+
SafetyMap estimates Prosfigika (Προσφυγικά) at 31 out of 100 for violent 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 Patras, adjusted for documented local reporting about Prosfigika; there are no police figures for Prosfigika itself. As a rate, the estimate comes to roughly 1,300 property and 180 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year. The written notes on this page class it as “Fine by day, care after dark”.
Is Prosfigika safe at night?+
This is the entry where the after-dark question is real. Residents told the local press in July 2026 that they are afraid to go out when it gets dark, citing inadequate street lighting; the municipality admitted its lighting works were unfinished. Police drug reporting describes specific houses and alleys here as hard to patrol with night-time activity.
How does Prosfigika compare with the rest of Patras?+
Prosfigika has no police figures of its own. Its estimate starts from Patras's rate — Patras scores 47 for violent crime — and is adjusted for documented local reporting about Prosfigika.