By type of crime
- 88Overall safety
- 100Property crime
- 77Violent crime
Chios scores 77 out of 100 (police-recorded offences, Eurostat 2021–2024) for violent crime — below-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 52,674 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
Updated · police figures: Eurostat 2021–2024 · What's new
Chios in the police figures
Eurostat publishes the offences recorded by the Hellenic Police in each regional unit. The figures here are the yearly mean of 2021–2024, per 100,000 residents, next to the rate for Greece as a whole.
For violent crime, Chios ranks joint 8th of Greece's 52 regional units, counting from the safest, at 77 out of 100 against 50 for the country as a whole. Violent crime: 45 offences per 100,000 residents a year, 55% below the rate for Greece as a whole, 101. Against the Greek rate, its highest is assault (−43%) and its lowest robbery (−93%).
Its nearest regional units, for violent crime: Lesbos and Lemnos 47, Ikaria and Samos 52, Cyclades 43, East Attica 52, North Athens 47, and Euboea 54. Chios is 28 points above their average of 49.
Chios is made up of islands with far more people in summer than live there. The rates are per resident, and offences involving visitors count against a population of 52,674 that does not include them, so per-resident figures can read higher than what residents experience.
| Offence | Chios | Greece | Against Greece | Rank of 46 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assault | 43 | 74 | −43% | 10 |
| Robbery | 1.9 | 26 | −93% | 9 |
| Intentional homicide | 0.5 | 0.8 | −38% | 14 |
| Violent crime, total | 45 | 101 | −55% | 8 |
Rank among the 46 areas Eurostat reports — the 45 regional units outside Attica and Attica as a whole — 1 being the lowest rate. Homicides are so few that a single case moves a small unit's rate a long way.
Is crime rising or falling in Chios?
Each year Eurostat publishes for Greece, 2021 to 2024: offences recorded by the Hellenic Police per 100,000 residents.
Property crime: 27 in 2021 and 39 in 2024, up 43%; Greece as a whole went from 680 to 716, up 5%. Violent crime: 52 in 2021 and 33 in 2024, down 37%; Greece as a whole went from 96 to 96, about the same.
| Year | Property crime | Violent crime | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chios | Greece | Chios | Greece | |
| 2021 | 27 | 680 | 52 | 96 |
| 2022 | 31 | 803 | 39 | 103 |
| 2023 | 49 | 775 | 56 | 108 |
| 2024 | 39 | 716 | 33 | 96 |
A regional unit's yearly rate moves with a handful of cases, and it is divided by residents, not visitors. That is why the score uses the mean of all 4 years.
Municipalities in Chios
3 places, by violent crime
All municipalities, largest first
The number on the right is how many people live there. The one on the left is its safety score out of 100.
Neighbouring regional units
Questions people ask
Is Chios safe?+
Chios (Χίος) scores 77 out of 100 for violent crime on SafetyMap — below-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the Greek average. That is based on police-recorded offence rates reported to Eurostat for 2021–2024. That works out to about 36 property offences and 45 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.
Is Chios safe at night?+
SafetyMap has no time-of-day figures for Chios: the police data behind the score are yearly totals that do not say when offences happen, so its 77 out of 100 is for day and night alike.
How does Chios compare with the rest of Greece?+
For violent crime, Chios ranks joint 8th of Greece's 52 regional units, counting from the safest, at 77 out of 100 against 50 for the country as a whole. Its nearest regional units, for violent crime: Lesbos and Lemnos 47, Ikaria and Samos 52, Cyclades 43, East Attica 52, North Athens 47, and Euboea 54. Chios is 28 points above their average of 49.