By type of crime
- 38Overall safety
- 39Property crime
- 37Violent crime
Papastratos 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. Papastratos 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 Papastratos. An estimated 12,394 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 Papastratos is actually like
The old industrial belt west of the centre, also called Agios Dionysios after its church, named for the Papastratos tobacco factory that opened on Mavromichali in 1931. It sits between Levka to the east and Kopi to the west. Long the most run-down quarter in the city, it is now the site of the largest regeneration in Piraeus: the factory is offices, with a hotel, museum and residences planned.
After dark
Still mostly warehouses, freight yards and building sites after dark, with very few people on the street between the completed blocks. The lighting and pavement works are real but incomplete, so improvement is patchy.
Staying here
New hotel stock is arriving and the commercial port is close, but it remains a construction zone with poor pedestrian links to the passenger gates. Choose the port blocks or Terpsithea for a ferry morning.
Reputation against reality. Here reputation lags reality in the visitor's favour: the district Greek press called downgraded is being rebuilt, and the change is documented and ongoing rather than speculative.
Streets and squares: Mavromichali · Agios Dionysios · Psaron
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Questions people ask
Is Papastratos safe?+
SafetyMap estimates Papastratos (Παπαστράτος) 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 Papastratos 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 Papastratos safe at night?+
Still mostly warehouses, freight yards and building sites after dark, with very few people on the street between the completed blocks. The lighting and pavement works are real but incomplete, so improvement is patchy.
How does Papastratos compare with the rest of Piraeus?+
Papastratos 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 Papastratos.