By type of crime
- 33Overall safety
- 34Property crime
- 31Violent crime
Profitis Daniil 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. Profitis Daniil 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 Profitis Daniil. An estimated 9,757 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 Profitis Daniil is actually like
Profitis Daniil sits at the western edge of the Municipality of Athens, bordering Votanikos, Akadimia Platonos, Kolonos, Sepolia, the Rouf area and the municipality of Aigaleo, and takes its name from the church on Leoforos Athinon. It is a low-rise mix of workshops, warehouses, small industry and modest housing on the city's industrial belt.
After dark
Industrial and thinly populated once the workshops shut, with long stretches of blank frontage, poor lighting and very little passing footfall. This is the western manufacturing edge, not a residential centre with people on the street.
What to watch for
- Industrial frontage on and around Leoforos Athinon: long blank stretches, poor lighting and almost no passing footfall once the workshops close
- Inadequate street lighting was raised for neighbouring Kolonos at the Athens municipal council on 20 April 2026, alongside damaged road surface in Votanikos and broken pavements in Sepolia
- It sits just west of the Omonia / Metaxourgeio / Agios Pavlos / Vathi / Kerameikos zone, which the Hellenic Police name as a 2026 target sector
- Heavy lorry traffic and few pedestrian crossings
Staying here
There is no reason for a visitor to book here and nothing walkable to see. Anyone offered a conspicuously cheap let in this area should treat the price as the explanation.
Reputation against reality. Frequently confused with the eastern districts because of the saint's name. It belongs with Votanikos, Kolonos and Sepolia — a different half of the city with a different risk profile from Pangrati or Ilisia.
Streets and squares: Leoforos Athinon · Iera Odos (nearby) · Konstantinoupoleos (nearby)
Other neighbourhoods in Athens
Nearby municipalities
Questions people ask
Is Profitis Daniil safe?+
SafetyMap estimates Profitis Daniil (Προφήτης Δανιήλ) 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 Profitis Daniil 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 “Fine by day, care after dark”.
Is Profitis Daniil safe at night?+
Industrial and thinly populated once the workshops shut, with long stretches of blank frontage, poor lighting and very little passing footfall. This is the western manufacturing edge, not a residential centre with people on the street.
How does Profitis Daniil compare with the rest of Athens?+
Profitis Daniil 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 Profitis Daniil.