By type of crime
- 21Overall safety
- 24Property crime
- 18Violent crime
Lofos Skouze scores 18 out of 100 (modelled estimate, Eurostat 2021–2024) for violent crime — high crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. Lofos Skouze 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 Lofos Skouze. An estimated 5,784 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 Lofos Skouze is actually like
A small hill in the 4th municipal district, ringed by Kolonos, Sepolia, Akadimia Platonos and Kolokynthou, named after the banker Georgios Skouzes who bought the land and planted it with olives, pines and cypresses. Around it is interwar housing and a cluster of Cycladic-style homes built by settlers from Mykonos, which makes it one of the more distinctive corners of western Athens. The hill has a cafe-restaurant, views and the church of Agios Aimilianos, and functions as the local park.
After dark
The hill and its cafe carry some evening life but the paths are dark once you leave the lit area; the surrounding streets are quiet residential ones.
What to watch for
- Unlit paths on the hill itself away from the cafe terrace
- Very little passing traffic on the residential slopes late at night
- General proximity to the Lenorman corridor, the rougher edge of this part of the city
Staying here
Not a visitor base, but if you end up in a long-let flat up here you have got the best-looking and greenest patch of the western districts, at the cost of a walk to Sepolia or Attiki metro.
Reputation against reality. Essentially absent from travel writing and from crime reporting alike. The official city guide lists it as one of Sepolia's attractions, which is closer to the truth than the district's blanket reputation.
Streets and squares: Lofos Skouze · Agiou Aimilianou · Lenorman
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Questions people ask
Is Lofos Skouze safe?+
SafetyMap estimates Lofos Skouze (Λόφος Σκουζέ) at 18 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 Lofos Skouze; there are no police figures for Lofos Skouze itself. As a rate, the estimate comes to roughly 2,200 property and 270 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year. The written notes on this page class it as “Ordinary precautions”.
Is Lofos Skouze safe at night?+
The hill and its cafe carry some evening life but the paths are dark once you leave the lit area; the surrounding streets are quiet residential ones.
How does Lofos Skouze compare with the rest of Athens?+
Lofos Skouze 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 Lofos Skouze.