By type of crime
- 33Overall safety
- 34Property crime
- 31Violent crime
Kolokynthou 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. Kolokynthou 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 Kolokynthou. An estimated 3,619 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 Kolokynthou is actually like
A small western neighbourhood between Kolonos, Akadimia Platonos and the boundary with Aigaleo and Peristeri. It was market gardens until a few decades ago, so it was subdivided later and built lower and less densely than Kolonos — more two- and three-storey houses, more yards, fewer eight-floor blocks. It is entirely residential, with a share of workshops and nuisance uses strung along the Lenorman axis.
After dark
Quiet, low-rise and largely unremarkable after dark; the Lenorman end is the busier and rougher edge, the interior streets are simply empty.
What to watch for
- The Lenorman axis, where nuisance uses and workshops concentrate and where guides place the drug-related reputation of the lower Kolonos area
- Very little street lighting or footfall on the interior lanes late at night
- Poor connectivity — the railway corridor and Konstantinoupoleos cut the area off from the rest of the city
Staying here
There is essentially no visitor accommodation and no reason to look for any. It is a place to live cheaply, not to stay.
Reputation against reality. Usually absorbed into 'Kolonos' in both news coverage and travel advice, which overstates its problems; nothing specific to Kolokynthou appears in the 2026 police plan.
Streets and squares: Lenorman · Konstantinoupoleos · Palamidiou
Other neighbourhoods in Athens
- 31KolokyntouΚολοκυνθούς
- 4SepoliaΣεπόλια
- 18Lofos SkouzeΛόφος Σκουζέ
- 4KolonosΚολωνός
- 31ThymarakiaΘυμαράκια
- 4AttikiΑττική
- 17Akadimia PlatonosΑκαδημία Πλάτωνος
- 18Treis GefyresΤρεις Γέφυρες
- 18Agios NikolaosΆγιος Νικόλαος
- 4Larissa StationΣταθμός Λαρίσης
- 4Agios PanteleimonasΆγιος Παντελεήμονας
- 4Kato PatisiaΚάτω Πατήσια
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Questions people ask
Is Kolokynthou safe?+
SafetyMap estimates Kolokynthou (Κολοκυνθού) 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 Kolokynthou 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 Kolokynthou safe at night?+
Quiet, low-rise and largely unremarkable after dark; the Lenorman end is the busier and rougher edge, the interior streets are simply empty.
How does Kolokynthou compare with the rest of Athens?+
Kolokynthou 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 Kolokynthou.