Άγιος Αρτέμιος · district
Agios Artemios scores 31 out of 100 for violent crime — above-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 17,299 people at 16,579 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.
Agios Artemios — older name Gouva — is the dense, unglamorous stretch around the church on Filolaou, sitting between Mets, Pangrati, Vyronas, Ymittos, Dafni and Neos Kosmos. It is grey post-war apartment blocks with genuine neighbourhood texture: barbers, bakeries, souvlaki shops, an old-fashioned patisserie. Residents often just say they live in Pangrati because it is simpler than explaining.
Calm and residential, with what life there is concentrated on Filolaou and around Plateia Delioli. Its old reputation for thieves belongs to a much smaller Athens and no longer describes the place.
A fair budget alternative to Pangrati if you accept a longer walk and a plainer street. It is not somewhere to book for a short first trip, but it works for a month-long stay.
Reputation against reality. Carries a historical association with thieves from the era when Athens was small; Greek local reporting explicitly says the area has lost that notoriety.
Streets and squares: Filolaou · Plateia Delioli (Martaki) · Leoforos Ymittou · Melantias · Frynis · Damareos