By type of crime
- 26Overall safety
- 30Property crime
- 23Violent crime
Kaminia scores 23 out of 100 (modelled estimate, Eurostat 2021–2024) for violent crime — above-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. Kaminia has no police figures of its own. Its estimate starts from Piraeus's rate — Piraeus scores 36 for violent crime — and is adjusted for documented local reporting about Kaminia. An estimated 11,109 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 Kaminia is actually like
Old kiln country between Piraeus Street and Thivon, next to Neo Faliro and the electric railway, 2.5km from the centre. Streets are named after Aegean islands, after the island labourers who came for the ceramics works and stayed. Plateia Nikou Legaki is the meeting point, Agiou Eleftheriou the commercial axis. Professionals priced out of Neo Faliro have been moving in.
After dark
Neighbourly on the main streets and around the square; the older grid west of Agiou Eleftheriou is poorly lit. Piraeus-wide, police broke up a gang of minors in January 2025 that had robbed elderly residents at home, and another in November 2025 that robbed teenagers on scooters.
Staying here
Cheap, authentic and liveable, but with little for visitors and an awkward link to the gates. Choose it for a week in the city, not a night before a boat.
Reputation against reality. Kaminia's long-standing name as the most run-down part of Piraeus comes from its swampy, cheap-land origins, not from present-day conditions; press coverage since 2024 treats it as a neighbourhood on the way up.
Streets and squares: Plateia Nikou Legaki · Agiou Eleftheriou · Ioanni Katsouli · Komotinis
Other neighbourhoods in Piraeus
Nearby municipalities
Questions people ask
Is Kaminia safe?+
SafetyMap estimates Kaminia (Καμίνια) at 23 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 Piraeus, adjusted for documented local reporting about Kaminia; there are no police figures for Kaminia itself. As a rate, the estimate comes to roughly 1,800 property and 220 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year. The written notes on this page class it as “Fine by day, care after dark”.
Is Kaminia safe at night?+
Neighbourly on the main streets and around the square; the older grid west of Agiou Eleftheriou is poorly lit. Piraeus-wide, police broke up a gang of minors in January 2025 that had robbed elderly residents at home, and another in November 2025 that robbed teenagers on scooters.
How does Kaminia compare with the rest of Piraeus?+
Kaminia has no police figures of its own. Its estimate starts from Piraeus's rate — Piraeus scores 36 for violent crime — and is adjusted for documented local reporting about Kaminia.