By type of crime
- 33Overall safety
- 34Property crime
- 31Violent crime
Rizoupoli 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. Rizoupoli 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 Rizoupoli. An estimated 12,730 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 Rizoupoli is actually like
A northern neighbourhood on the boundary with Nea Ionia and Perissos, named after Ioannis Rizopoulos, who in the early twentieth century laid out houses, shops and roads on what was still semi-agricultural land. It grew as a refugee and working quarter and is now plain residential Athens: apartment blocks with some older houses among them, local shops, schools and the Apollon Smyrnis ground on its edge. Nothing about it appears in crime reporting or in travel-safety writing.
After dark
Ordinary and quiet. Main streets stay lit and used, interior streets empty out; the parts to skip after midnight are the unlit edges by the cemetery and the railway.
What to watch for
- Unlit edges toward the Second Athens Cemetery and the rail corridor
- Long walks to the ISAP stations at Perissos or Ano Patisia from the interior streets
- Matchday traffic around the Apollon ground
Staying here
Fine as a residential address, pointless as a holiday base. Property here is cheaper than the city centre and it is marketed locally as calm; the trade is a longer commute to everything a visitor wants.
Reputation against reality. Not named in the 2026 Hellenic Police plan and not mentioned in any traveller avoid-list found. The 'Patisia' reputation that reaches it is borrowed from a mile further south.
Streets and squares: Apollon Smyrnis stadium · Second Athens Cemetery · Leoforos Ionias
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Questions people ask
Is Rizoupoli safe?+
SafetyMap estimates Rizoupoli (Ριζουπόλεως) 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, adjusted for documented local reporting about Rizoupoli; there are no police figures for Rizoupoli 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 Rizoupoli safe at night?+
Ordinary and quiet. Main streets stay lit and used, interior streets empty out; the parts to skip after midnight are the unlit edges by the cemetery and the railway.
How does Rizoupoli compare with the rest of Athens?+
Rizoupoli 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 Rizoupoli.