By type of crime
- 26Overall safety
- 34Property crime
- 18Violent crime
Prompona 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. Prompona 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 Prompona. An estimated 7,798 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 Prompona is actually like
A small northern pocket next to Rizoupoli, originally a refugee quarter, defined by three things: the Apollon Smyrnis ground, the Second Athens Cemetery, and the municipal nursery, a large green holding that residents have campaigned for years to open as a public park. The abandoned Columbia records factory — where most of the Greek recording catalogue of the twentieth century was pressed — stands here, with a long-running demand to make it an industrial monument and music museum.
After dark
Quiet, low-traffic residential streets; the cemetery wall and the closed nursery grounds make long stretches with no overlooking, so it is dark rather than dangerous.
What to watch for
- Long blank frontages along the cemetery and the closed municipal nursery with no passers-by after dark
- The abandoned Columbia factory site, derelict and unsecured
- Matchday crowding and traffic around the Apollon Smyrnis ground
Staying here
There is effectively no visitor accommodation and no reason to seek it out. As a residential address it is quiet, cheap and reasonably well regarded locally.
Reputation against reality. Never appears in travel-safety guides or in the 2026 police plan. Estate-agent copy for the Agios Eleftherios-Promponas-Rizoupoli bundle sells it as central-but-calm, which broadly matches the area's own description of itself.
Streets and squares: Promponas municipal nursery · Apollon Smyrnis stadium · Second Athens Cemetery · Columbia factory
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Questions people ask
Is Prompona safe?+
SafetyMap estimates Prompona (Προμπονά) 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 Prompona; there are no police figures for Prompona itself. As a rate, the estimate comes to roughly 1,500 property and 270 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year. The written notes on this page class it as “Ordinary precautions”.
Is Prompona safe at night?+
Quiet, low-traffic residential streets; the cemetery wall and the closed nursery grounds make long stretches with no overlooking, so it is dark rather than dangerous.
How does Prompona compare with the rest of Athens?+
Prompona 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 Prompona.