By type of crime
- 21Overall safety
- 25Property crime
- 17Violent crime
Akadimia Platonos scores 17 out of 100 (modelled estimate, Eurostat 2021–2024) for violent crime — high crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. Akadimia Platonos has no police figures of its own. Its estimate starts from Athens's rate — Athens scores 23 for violent crime — and is adjusted for documented local reporting about Akadimia Platonos. An estimated 33,051 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 Akadimia Platonos is actually like
The neighbourhood wrapped around the excavated site of Plato's Academy, between Lenorman and Athinon Avenue. It is a mixed industrial-residential patchwork — workshops, car dealerships, warehouses and apartment blocks — that grew after the war with no regard for what was underneath it. The archaeological grove is the only real green space for the surrounding districts, and a long-running programme to turn it into a proper archaeological park with a new Museum of the City of Athens is the area's one big hope.
After dark
The park is unlit and unstaffed after dark and the surrounding industrial streets have almost no footfall; this is a daytime visit only, and that has been true for years.
What to watch for
- The archaeological grove after dusk — reporting on the site described neglect, dealers operating openly and visitors approached
- Empty industrial blocks toward Athinon and Kifisou avenues with no passers-by at night
- Residents in the wider Akadimia Platonos area have publicly complained about burglaries and theft
Staying here
Not a place to book unless you are here for a specific reason. Buses rather than metro, long connections to the sights, and an evening street scene that does not exist.
Reputation against reality. Worth visiting by day — it is a genuine classical site with almost no crowds, free, and ten minutes from Kolonos. The warnings attach to the hours when it is deserted, not to the visit.
Streets and squares: Lenorman · Plataion · Platonos · Salaminos · Athinon Avenue · Kifisou Avenue
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Questions people ask
Is Akadimia Platonos safe?+
SafetyMap estimates Akadimia Platonos (Ακαδημία Πλάτωνος) at 17 out of 100 for violent crime — high 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 Athens, adjusted for documented local reporting about Akadimia Platonos; there are no police figures for Akadimia Platonos itself. As a rate, the estimate comes to roughly 2,200 property and 270 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year. The written notes on this page class it as “Fine by day, care after dark”.
Is Akadimia Platonos safe at night?+
The park is unlit and unstaffed after dark and the surrounding industrial streets have almost no footfall; this is a daytime visit only, and that has been true for years.
How does Akadimia Platonos compare with the rest of Athens?+
Akadimia Platonos has no police figures of its own. Its estimate starts from Athens's rate — Athens scores 23 for violent crime — and is adjusted for documented local reporting about Akadimia Platonos.