By type of crime
- 33Overall safety
- 34Property crime
- 31Violent crime
Ano Kypseli scores 31 out of 100 (modelled estimate, Eurostat 2021–2024) for violent crime — above-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. Ano Kypseli has no police figures of its own. Its estimate is Athens's rate — Athens scores 23 for violent crime — and the 8 points between them come from how the model shares Athens's total out, not from anything measured in Ano Kypseli. An estimated 13,788 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 Ano Kypseli is actually like
The uphill extension of Kypseli, built out during the fastest phase of Athenian urbanisation and reckoned among the most densely built and populated parts of the whole city. Its one distinguishing feature is the Tourkovounia rock formations on its eastern edge, an unusually raw piece of landscape for an inner-city district. It is almost purely residential — apartment blocks, corner shops, schools, church squares — with almost no free public space.
After dark
Sleepy and residential, with the evening life concentrated downhill on Fokionos Negri; the steep streets and the unlit approaches to the Tourkovounia slopes are empty after dark.
What to watch for
- The unlit and unmanaged Tourkovounia slopes on the eastern edge
- Steep, narrow streets with parked cars and almost no footfall late at night
- Very little green or open space, so nowhere is overlooked
Staying here
Fine for a long stay if you do not mind the hill and the walk down to the metro, and quieter than Kypseli proper. Poor value for a short trip — you pay in transit time what you save in rent.
Reputation against reality. Does not appear by name in the police plan or in travel-safety guides; it inherits Kypseli's reputation without having Kypseli's Patision edge.
Streets and squares: Tourkovounia · Kypselis · Eptanisou · Fokionos Negri
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Questions people ask
Is Ano Kypseli safe?+
SafetyMap estimates Ano Kypseli (Άνω Κυψέλη) at 31 out of 100 for violent crime — above-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 Athens, since there are no police figures for Ano Kypseli itself. As a rate, the estimate comes to roughly 1,500 property and 180 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year. The written notes on this page class it as “Ordinary precautions”.
Is Ano Kypseli safe at night?+
Sleepy and residential, with the evening life concentrated downhill on Fokionos Negri; the steep streets and the unlit approaches to the Tourkovounia slopes are empty after dark.
How does Ano Kypseli compare with the rest of Athens?+
Ano Kypseli has no police figures of its own. Its estimate is Athens's rate — Athens scores 23 for violent crime — and the 8 points between them come from how the model shares Athens's total out, not from anything measured in Ano Kypseli.