By type of crime
- 38Overall safety
- 39Property crime
- 37Violent crime
Pigada 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. Pigada 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 Pigada. An estimated 2,370 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 Pigada is actually like
One of the oldest neighbourhoods, on a low hill near the middle of the peninsula facing Kallipoli, named for a large well sunk when the first drinking-water cisterns were installed. It was grazing land with three mills before it was built up along Dexameni and Chatzikyriakou toward Agios Vasileios. The old reservoir ground is now a planted square. Its real function today is a junction linking Marina Zea, Chatzikyriakeio, central Piraeus and the harbour. Three markets set up in it or at its edge: Neo Faliro's Monday street market (laiki) on Zaimi street, Pigada's own on Georgiou Theotoki street on Tuesdays, both 07:30-15:30, and an organic producers' market on Plateia Pigadas on Wednesday afternoons, 14:00-18:00.
After dark
A traffic node rather than a nightlife spot, lit and overlooked, with cars passing steadily between the marina and the centre. Nothing documented here in 2024-26.
Staying here
Central, ordinary and within 15 minutes' walk of both Zea and the terminals, but with little purpose-built accommodation. Perfectly fine if a rental happens to be here; not somewhere to search out.
Streets and squares: Plateia Pigadas · Dexameni · Chatzikyriakou
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Questions people ask
Is Pigada safe?+
SafetyMap estimates Pigada (Πηγάδα) 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 Pigada 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 “Ordinary precautions”.
Is Pigada safe at night?+
A traffic node rather than a nightlife spot, lit and overlooked, with cars passing steadily between the marina and the centre. Nothing documented here in 2024-26.
How does Pigada compare with the rest of Piraeus?+
Pigada 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 Pigada.