By type of crime
- 51Overall safety
- 57Property crime
- 45Violent crime
Terpsithea scores 45 out of 100 (modelled estimate, Eurostat 2021–2024) for violent crime — average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. Terpsithea has no police figures of its own. Its estimate is Patras's rate — Patras scores 47 for violent crime — and the 2 points between them come from how the model shares Patras's total out, not from anything measured in Terpsithea. An estimated 1,960 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 Terpsithea is actually like
A residential district on the eastern slope of the city, its name meaning roughly a pleasing view, which is what the higher streets have. It is mid-century and later Patras: apartment blocks and detached houses on steep roads, families and older residents, a church, schools and local shops, with green edges toward the Girokomeio woodland above. Nothing draws a visitor. Compared with Agia Varvara and Pagona on the same side of the city, it is a little higher, a little newer and a little quieter, and like them it is entirely absent from the 2024-2026 police and press reporting on Patras crime. Patras city bus line 11 runs between the port and the Terpsithea car park.
After dark
Quiet and residential. Steep streets, ordinary lighting, very little late footfall. No documented incidents, patrol priorities or burglary-hotspot listings.
What to watch for
- Steep unlit residential streets on the upper slope at night
- Standard home security; citywide residential burglaries were 50 in the first nine months of 2025
Staying here
Fine for a quiet longer stay with a view, poor for a short visit — you are uphill from everything and a long way from the Italy ferry gates. Not a base for an early boat.
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Questions people ask
Is Terpsithea safe?+
SafetyMap estimates Terpsithea (Τερψιθέα) at 45 out of 100 for violent crime — 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, since there are no police figures for Terpsithea itself. As a rate, the estimate comes to roughly 560 property and 120 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year. The written notes on this page class it as “Ordinary precautions”.
Is Terpsithea safe at night?+
Quiet and residential. Steep streets, ordinary lighting, very little late footfall. No documented incidents, patrol priorities or burglary-hotspot listings.
How does Terpsithea compare with the rest of Patras?+
Terpsithea has no police figures of its own. Its estimate is Patras's rate — Patras scores 47 for violent crime — and the 2 points between them come from how the model shares Patras's total out, not from anything measured in Terpsithea.