By type of crime
- 33Overall safety
- 34Property crime
- 31Violent crime
Thymarakia 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. Thymarakia 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 Thymarakia. An estimated 8,578 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 Thymarakia is actually like
A tight residential wedge between Agios Nikolaos, Sepolia, Kolonos and Kato Patisia, built up first by self-construction on former farmland and then conventionally, with Liosion as its spine. It is unusually cut off for a central district — the railway isolates it from its neighbours — and it has almost no free public space beyond Plateia Athanasiou Diakou. Traffic from the Liosion coach terminal loads its narrow streets.
After dark
Plain residential quiet away from Liosion; the avenue itself carries coach and through traffic all night, and the rail-side streets are dark and unused.
What to watch for
- Liosion avenue traffic and its poorly maintained pavements
- Isolation from neighbouring districts because of the railway barrier, so few natural through-routes on foot at night
- Coach terminal environs at the northern end
Staying here
Not a visitor area — no hotels, no sights, awkward walking. Perfectly liveable as a cheap central address if you can tolerate the traffic and the lack of green space.
Reputation against reality. Absent from both the police plan and travel-safety writing. Residents' documented complaints are cleanliness, broken pavements and missing amenities rather than crime.
Streets and squares: Liosion · Plateia Athanasiou Diakou · Konstantinoupoleos · Leoforos N. Ionias
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Questions people ask
Is Thymarakia safe?+
SafetyMap estimates Thymarakia (Θυμαράκια) 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 Thymarakia 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 Thymarakia safe at night?+
Plain residential quiet away from Liosion; the avenue itself carries coach and through traffic all night, and the rail-side streets are dark and unused.
How does Thymarakia compare with the rest of Athens?+
Thymarakia 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 Thymarakia.