By type of crime
- 9Overall safety
- 15Property crime
- 4Violent crime
Attiki scores 4 out of 100 (modelled estimate, Eurostat 2021–2024) for violent crime — high crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. Attiki 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 Attiki. An estimated 4,537 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 Attiki is actually like
A working transport knot rather than a destination: Attiki is where Metro Line 2 meets Line 1, on Liosion, with the trolleybus depot taking up a whole block. The square is the only open public space for streets around and does a Saturday street market; Remoundi and the streets off it still hold a run of neoclassical facades under decades of neglect.
After dark
Once the interchange traffic drops the square empties and reads as dark and unowned, and it is one of the named drug-dealing spots in the current police plan.
What to watch for
- Pickpocketing and bag-snatching on the Attiki interchange platforms and stairs — Attiki was one of the stations worked by a chain-snatching gang broken up with 21 arrests over 129 cases
- Dealing on and around Plateia Attikis, named in the 2026 Hellenic Police plan alongside Victoria and Amerikis
- The Liosion underpass and the poorly lit blocks between the square and the railway
Staying here
No reason to book. It is genuinely well connected and cheap, but it has no evening life of its own, and the walk from the station exit to a flat after 22:00 is the part visitors regret.
Reputation against reality. Often bracketed with 'lower Kolonos' in guidebook warnings. The square itself is ordinary by day — market stalls, pensioners, school runs — and the warning applies to the late hours and to specific dark corners, not the district.
Streets and squares: Plateia Attikis · Liosion · Acharnon · Remoundi · Alkamenous · Michail Voda
Sources
Other neighbourhoods in Athens
Nearby municipalities
Questions people ask
Is Attiki safe?+
SafetyMap estimates Attiki (Αττική) at 4 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 Attiki; there are no police figures for Attiki itself. As a rate, the estimate comes to roughly 3,400 property and 400 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year. The written notes on this page class it as “Fine by day, care after dark”.
Is Attiki safe at night?+
Once the interchange traffic drops the square empties and reads as dark and unowned, and it is one of the named drug-dealing spots in the current police plan.
How does Attiki compare with the rest of Athens?+
Attiki 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 Attiki.