Πειραϊκή · district
Peiraiki scores 37 out of 100 for violent crime — above-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 6,146 people at 13,556 people per km².
The score is absolute, not a ranking: 50 is the offence rate for Greece as a whole, 100 the safest end of the scale and 0 the least safe, and every doubling of the rate costs the same number of points wherever you are. Regional units are scored from Eurostat's police-recorded offence rates per 100,000 inhabitants. Greece publishes nothing finer, so municipalities and districts share out their region's measured rate by how built-up they are and by documented local reporting — treat those two levels as an estimate, not a count of reported crime.
The rocky south-west tip of the peninsula, under the ancient Long Walls. Barely built on until the 1960s, when families from Kallipoli, Chatzikyriakeio and Freattyda moved out onto the new seafront; it meets Kallipoli at Filikis Etaireias. Akti Themistokleous is the point: fish tavernas, kafeneia and small bars along the water. The official Athens guide sends visitors here for seafood, naming Margaro, Yperokeanio and Ta Vrachia tis Peiraikis.
Lively where the tavernas cluster in summer, then long dark gaps of rock and low wall between them. Off-season the western stretch is genuinely empty. Nothing documented here in 2024-26.
A quiet, pleasant base if you have an evening to spend, but the wrong side of the peninsula for a dawn ferry: a taxi ride from the gates, no metro. Book here for a holiday, not a 07:00 sailing.
Reputation against reality. Guidebook shorthand that lumps all of Piraeus outside the port and the marinas into 'avoid at night' does not fit Peiraiki, which is one of the calmer residential fronts in the city.
Streets and squares: Akti Themistokleous · Filikis Etaireias · Stefanou Dragoumi