Gortyna scores 75 out of 100 for violent crime — below-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 15,632 people at 34 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.
Districts in Gortyna
31 places, by violent crime
All districts, largest first
- 74Agia VarvaraΑγία Βαρβάρα2,043
- 74GergeriΓέργερης1,440
- 75AssimioΑσημίου1,189
- 76Aghii DekaΑγίων Δέκα861
- 75VayoniaΒαγιονιάς804
- 75Megali Vrysi IrakleiouΜεγάλης Βρύσης797
- 74SokarasΣοκαρά765
- 75Ano AkriaΆνω Ακρίων686
- 74Aghios ThomasΑγίου Θωμά665
- 75StaviesΣταβιών523
- 75GagalesΓκαγκαλών457
- 75StoliΣτόλων444
- 76MitropoliΜητροπόλεως394
- 75Dionysio IrakleioΔιονυσίου360
- 75Ano MouliaΆνω Μουλίων353
- 74PriniasΠρινιά328
- 75SternesΣτερνών327
- 76AbelouzosΑμπελούζου320
- 76ChoustoulianaΧουστουλιανών309
- 76MiamouΜιαμούς306
- 76Vassilika AnogiaΒασιλικών Ανωγείων301
- 76Platanos IrakleiouΠλατάνου244
- 75Vasiliki IrakleioΒασιλικής236
- 76PloraΠλώρας217
- 75LouresΛουρών214
- 74DouliouΔουλίου210
- 74NyvritosΝυβρίτου202
- 75LaranioΛαρανίου191
- 74PanassosΠανάσου179
- 76Aghios KyrillosΑγίου Κυρίλλου164
- 76ApessokariΑπεσωκαρίου103
The number on the right is how many people live there. The one on the left is its safety score out of 100.
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Questions people ask
Is Gortyna safe?
Gortyna (Γόρτυνα) scores 75 out of 100 for violent crime on SafetyMap — below-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the Greek average. That is based on the police-recorded offence rate of its regional unit, apportioned by how built-up Gortyna is. That works out to about 377 property offences and 47.4 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.
Is Gortyna safe at night?
Gortyna is among the lower-crime areas of Greece, and the usual precautions — well-lit streets, valuables out of sight — are enough after dark.
How does Gortyna compare with the rest of Heraklion?
Gortyna scores 75 out of 100 for violent crime, against 62 for Heraklion as a whole — safer than its surroundings.