By type of crime
- 48Overall safety
- 37Property crime
- 59Violent crime
Vyzantio scores 59 out of 100 (modelled estimate, Eurostat 2021–2024) for violent crime — average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. Vyzantio has no police figures of its own. Its estimate is Kalamaria's rate — Kalamaria scores 58 for violent crime — and the 1 point between them comes from how the model shares Kalamaria's total out, not from anything measured in Vyzantio. An estimated 5,355 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 Vyzantio is actually like
A small inland residential subdivision of Kalamaria, one of the refugee settlements named after the settlers' origins, now absorbed into the continuous apartment fabric between the centre and the eastern edge. It has no commercial core of its own, no landmark and no separate identity in the way Nea Krini or Aretsou do. There is no crime reporting, travel writing or forum discussion specific to Vyzantio in 2024-2026. Its safety picture is simply Kalamaria's. The nearest weekly street markets (laiki) are about 300 m beyond its edge: Thursday's on Amisou street and Friday's on Zirganou street.
After dark
Residential and quiet, with people walking to Kalamaria centre or the seafront for anything after dark. No documented night-time incidents.
What to watch for
- Nothing area-specific is documented
Staying here
Fine but undistinguished. Choose the centre or the seafront instead unless a specific apartment brings you here.
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Questions people ask
Is Vyzantio safe?+
SafetyMap estimates Vyzantio (Βυζάντιο) at 59 out of 100 for violent crime — 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 Kalamaria, since there are no police figures for Vyzantio itself. As a rate, the estimate comes to roughly 1,300 property and 78 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year. The written notes on this page class it as “Ordinary precautions”.
Is Vyzantio safe at night?+
Residential and quiet, with people walking to Kalamaria centre or the seafront for anything after dark. No documented night-time incidents.
How does Vyzantio compare with the rest of Kalamaria?+
Vyzantio has no police figures of its own. Its estimate is Kalamaria's rate — Kalamaria scores 58 for violent crime — and the 1 point between them comes from how the model shares Kalamaria's total out, not from anything measured in Vyzantio.