By type of crime
- 9Overall safety
- 15Property crime
- 4Violent crime
Larissa Station 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. Larissa Station 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 Larissa Station. An estimated 9,219 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 Larissa Station is actually like
The strip either side of Athens' main railway station, opened in 1904 at the end of Ioulianou on Domokou, with its own metro stop on Line 2. It is a functional arrival-and-departure zone hemmed in by tracks: budget hotels, kiosks, car hire, the Peloponnese station shed opposite, and behind it a stock of abandoned, partly occupied neoclassical and industrial buildings where drug use has been reported. Almost nobody chooses to be here except to catch a train.
After dark
Trains and the metro keep people moving until late, but the surrounding blocks are badly lit, largely shuttered and read as bleak; this is a wait-inside-the-station-not-outside-it place.
What to watch for
- Bag theft and distraction theft on the station concourse and platforms, and on the Line 2 platforms at Larisis
- Derelict buildings behind the station where drug use has been reported
- Unlicensed taxi touts — use the official rank in front of the station and do not accept a ride from someone approaching you
- The dark, tracks-side streets toward Kolonos and toward Karaiskaki Square
Staying here
Only worth it for an early train, and then only in a hotel with a staffed 24-hour desk. Everyone else pays a little more and sleeps in Koukaki, Psyrri or Syntagma, twenty minutes away by metro.
Reputation against reality. Travellers arriving here at midnight regularly report feeling uneasy, and forum advice is consistent — take a taxi from the rank straight to the hotel. That is sensible without meaning the area is violent; it is empty and neglected rather than predatory.
Streets and squares: Domokou · Ioulianou · Deligianni · Karaiskaki Square · Filadelfeias
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Questions people ask
Is Larissa Station safe?+
SafetyMap estimates Larissa Station (Σταθμός Λαρίσης) 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 Larissa Station; there are no police figures for Larissa Station 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 Larissa Station safe at night?+
Trains and the metro keep people moving until late, but the surrounding blocks are badly lit, largely shuttered and read as bleak; this is a wait-inside-the-station-not-outside-it place.
How does Larissa Station compare with the rest of Athens?+
Larissa Station 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 Larissa Station.