Δουργούτι · district
Dourgouti 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 14,159 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.
Dourgouti is the old refugee quarter inside Neos Kosmos, near the tram tracks, where Armenian and then Asia Minor refugees were housed from 1922 and where the state replaced the shacks with public housing blocks between the late 1930s and 1971. It remains one of the most mixed places in central Athens: second- to fourth-generation refugee families alongside Armenians from Syria, Iran and Lebanon and newer Albanian, Syrian and Bangladeshi households.
Ordinary residential quiet. The blocks are worn and the internal courtyards and stairwells are poorly lit, which reads as intimidating to an outsider more than it reflects any documented risk.
Not a visitor area. There are very few legitimate short lets and nothing to see. Stay in Koukaki or the northern end of Neos Kosmos and walk down if you are curious.
Reputation against reality. Residents themselves dropped the name Dourgouti in favour of 'Neos Kosmos' because it carried the stigma of the old shanty town. The name still triggers an outdated slum association in Greek that the place no longer earns.
Streets and squares: Rene Pyo (Rene Puaux) · Sfingos · Leoforos Syngrou · Kasomouli (tram)