Violent crime in Vrachneika
Δημοτική Κοινότητα Βραχναιίκων · District
Modelled estimate — how it is madeBy type of crime
- 62Overall safety
- 66Property crime
- 57Violent crime
Vrachneika scores 57 out of 100 (modelled estimate, Eurostat 2021–2024) for violent crime — average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. Vrachneika has no police figures of its own. Its estimate is Patras's rate — Patras scores 47 for violent crime — and the 10 points between them come from how the model shares Patras's total out, not from anything measured in Vrachneika. It is home to about 2,664 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
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What Vrachneika is actually like
The seat of its own municipal unit, a coastal town on the southern shore road out of Patras, about 12 km from the city centre (11 km in a straight line from Plateia Georgiou), with a permanent population, a beach and a summer-house belt. The community had 2,908 residents at the 2021 census: 2,640 in Vrachneika, 199 in Drosthena and 69 in Moiraiika. It has a primary school, rebuilt after earthquake damage and fully open again in 2016, a lower-secondary school since 1977 and an upper-secondary school since 1981; the 1993 and 2008 earthquakes brought down many old houses. City buses have linked it with Patras since 1930 and today run on routes 501 and 505, and the suburban railway stops at Vrachneika. The municipal street-market regulation lists no market in the Vrachnaiika unit; the nearest is Paralia's, on Friday mornings. It is one of the few outlying settlements with a documented crime profile: police name it among the consistently high-risk zones for residential burglaries, and a coastal burglary ring worked it in 2025-26.
After dark
Quiet out of season, busier along the shore in summer. Empty second homes are the recurring target rather than people on the street.
What to watch for
- Residential burglary — Vrachneika is on the police high-risk list
- Holiday homes left empty; a ring hit coastal houses here in morning hours
- Unlit stretches of the shore road
Staying here
Pleasant for a summer seaside stay with a car. Around 20 minutes' drive south of the centre, so workable for an Italy ferry if you allow time to reach the South Port.
Sources
- Peloponnisos - Rise in thefts and burglaries in Achaia: which areas they choose
- Proto Thema - Burglary ring dismantled in Achaia and Corinthia
- Wikipedia (el) - Vrachnaiika, Patras
- ELSTAT - 2021 census: resident population by settlement (xlsx, 29 Mar 2024)
- OpenStreetMap - Vrachnaiika (place node)
- OpenStreetMap - Plateia Georgiou A', Patras
- Astiko KTEL Patras - Line 501 Tsoukaleika
- Diavgeia - Municipality of Patras, decision 98/2020: regulation for the operation of street markets
Other neighbourhoods in Patras
Nearby municipalities
Questions people ask
Is Vrachneika safe?+
SafetyMap estimates Vrachneika (Δημοτική Κοινότητα Βραχναιίκων) at 57 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 Vrachneika itself. As a rate, the estimate comes to roughly 380 property and 80 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year. The written notes on this page class it as “Ordinary precautions”.
Is Vrachneika safe at night?+
Quiet out of season, busier along the shore in summer. Empty second homes are the recurring target rather than people on the street.
How does Vrachneika compare with the rest of Patras?+
Vrachneika has no police figures of its own. Its estimate is Patras's rate — Patras scores 47 for violent crime — and the 10 points between them come from how the model shares Patras's total out, not from anything measured in Vrachneika.