By type of crime
- 38Overall safety
- 39Property crime
- 37Violent crime
Palaia Kokkinia scores 37 out of 100 (modelled estimate, Eurostat 2021–2024) for violent crime — above-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. Palaia Kokkinia has no police figures of its own. Its estimate is Piraeus's rate — Piraeus scores 36 for violent crime — and the 1 point between them comes from how the model shares Piraeus's total out, not from anything measured in Palaia Kokkinia. An estimated 10,636 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 Palaia Kokkinia is actually like
A refugee neighbourhood in the north of the municipality, bordered by Nikaia to the north, Lefka to the south, Agios Ioannis Rentis to the east and Agia Sofia to the west. Farmers settled it in the mid-19th century; Greek and Armenian refugees from Smyrna transformed it after 1922. Leoforos Thivon runs through it. Three squares organise it: Agios Sotiras, Neraida and the cemetery square.
After dark
Lived-in and ordinary around the squares; the through-route along Thivon and the blocks behind it are darker and less overlooked. The documented 2024-25 juvenile robbery cases targeted elderly residents at home, a residents' problem rather than a visitors' one.
Staying here
There is essentially no visitor accommodation and no direct link to the ferry gates. Not a place to book, and not a place to arrive at 2am with luggage looking for an address.
Reputation against reality. Kokkinia carries a reputation from the 1980s-90s that its own residents dispute; recent press coverage of the district is nostalgic rather than alarmed.
Streets and squares: Leoforos Thivon · Plateia Agiou Sotira · Plateia Neraidas · Parko Deligianni
Other neighbourhoods in Piraeus
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Questions people ask
Is Palaia Kokkinia safe?+
SafetyMap estimates Palaia Kokkinia (Παλαιά Κοκκινιά) at 37 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, since there are no police figures for Palaia Kokkinia itself. As a rate, the estimate comes to roughly 1,200 property and 150 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year. The written notes on this page class it as “Fine by day, care after dark”.
Is Palaia Kokkinia safe at night?+
Lived-in and ordinary around the squares; the through-route along Thivon and the blocks behind it are darker and less overlooked. The documented 2024-25 juvenile robbery cases targeted elderly residents at home, a residents' problem rather than a visitors' one.
How does Palaia Kokkinia compare with the rest of Piraeus?+
Palaia Kokkinia has no police figures of its own. Its estimate is Piraeus's rate — Piraeus scores 36 for violent crime — and the 1 point between them comes from how the model shares Piraeus's total out, not from anything measured in Palaia Kokkinia.