By type of crime
- 45Overall safety
- 41Property crime
- 50Violent crime
Pavlos Melas scores 50 out of 100 (modelled estimate, Eurostat 2021–2024) for violent crime — average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 99,245 people (2021 census), 4,111 per km².
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
Pavlos Melas areas to avoid, and where to stay instead
The neighbourhoods we have written notes on: what each is like, what changes after dark, and what the police and the Greek press report. Notes, not just numbers.
Fine by day, care after dark
The note names what changes after dark and where; by day the usual precautions apply.
Ordinary city neighbourhoods
The usual precautions apply. The note lists anything specific to this place.
- 53EfkarpiaΕυκαρπία · average crimeThe northern municipal unit of Pavlos Melas, around 15,500 people, and the newest and least dense of the three.
- 47MeteoraΜετέωρα · average crimeA named neighbourhood of the Polichni unit, on the boundary between Polichni and its neighbours - Polichni is explicitly described as bordering Meteora.
- 47AnthokipoiΑνθόκηποι · average crimeA small subdivision on the Polichni-Efkarpia boundary, listed in municipal sources under both units, which is why you will see it described inconsistently.
- 47Kato AnthokipoiΚάτω Ανθόκηποι · average crimeThe lower half of the Anthokipoi subdivision in the Polichni unit, listed in municipal records as one of a pair with Ano Anthokipoi.
- 47Megas AlexandrosΜέγας Αλέξανδρος · average crimeThis name does not appear in the official subdivision lists for any of the three Pavlos Melas municipal units in the sources consulted.
- 47Anothen AsylouΆνωθεν Ασύλου · average crimeLiterally 'above the asylum' - a subdivision named for its position uphill from the former psychiatric hospital grounds, and listed in municipal sources under both the Stavroupoli and Polichni units.
- 47OmoniaΟμόνοια · average crimeA named residential subdivision of the Stavroupoli unit, listed in municipal and encyclopaedic sources alongside Pronoia as one of the central residential areas.
- 47Viomichaniki Periochi PolichnisΒιομηχανική Περιοχή Πολίχνης · average crimeThe workshop and light-industry strip on Polichni's edge - warehouses, garages, builders' merchants and yards rather than homes.
- 45Ano IlioupoliΆνω Ηλιούπολη · average crimeThe upper half of Ilioupoli, on the higher ground of the Stavroupoli unit.
- 45NikopoliΝικόπολη · average crimeA subdivision name that appears twice inside Pavlos Melas - listed both among the Stavroupoli unit's neighbourhoods and among Efkarpia's - which tells you how small and how loosely bounded these units are.
- 45PronoiaΠρόνοια · average crimeA residential subdivision of the Stavroupoli unit, listed in municipal sources as one of its central residential areas alongside Omonia.
- 45AmpelonesΑμπελώνες · average crimeAn older residential zone of the Stavroupoli unit, listed with Terpsithea and Neoktista.
- 45IlioupoliΗλιούπολη · average crimeA residential neighbourhood of the Stavroupoli unit, split in local usage into Ano and Kato Ilioupoli.
- 45Kato IlioupoliΚάτω Ηλιούπολη · average crimeThe lower half of Ilioupoli within the Stavroupoli unit.
- 45TerpsitheaΤερψιθέα · average crimeOne of the older residential zones of the Stavroupoli unit, listed in municipal sources alongside Ampelones and Neoktista.
- 43PolichniΠολίχνη · above-average crimeThe northeastern municipal unit of Pavlos Melas, about 39,000 people, an independent municipality from 1973 until the 2011 merger and still the administrative heart of the area - the Pavlos Melas police station and…
Districts in Pavlos Melas
21 places, by violent crime
Most crime
All districts, largest first
- 51PolichniΠολίχνη23,869
- 58EfkarpiaΕυκαρπία13,905
- 48IlioupoliΗλιούπολη8,100
- 48Kato IlioupoliΚάτω Ηλιούπολη7,562
- 51Kato AnthokipoiΚάτω Ανθόκηποι4,525
- 48Ano IlioupoliΆνω Ηλιούπολη4,315
- 48NikopoliΝικόπολη3,872
- 48TerpsitheaΤερψιθέα3,715
- 51MeteoraΜετέωρα3,501
- 51AnthokipoiΑνθόκηποι3,202
- 51Anothen AsylouΆνωθεν Ασύλου2,434
- 48AmpelonesΑμπελώνες1,809
- 34StavroupoliΣταυρούπολη1,694
- 48PronoiaΠρόνοια1,274
- 51Viomichaniki Periochi PolichnisΒιομηχανική Περιοχή Πολίχνης972
- 51OmoniaΟμόνοια661
- 51Megas AlexandrosΜέγας Αλέξανδρος168
The number on the right is how many people live there. The one on the left is its safety score out of 100.
Nearby municipalities
Questions people ask
Which areas of Pavlos Melas should I avoid?+
No part of Pavlos Melas is off limits by daylight. The list below says which blocks change after dark.
Is Pavlos Melas safe at night?+
SafetyMap has no time-of-day figures for Pavlos Melas: the police data are yearly totals. What changes after dark is in the written notes — each of the 17 neighbourhoods below has its own “After dark” section.
Where should I stay in Pavlos Melas?+
Each neighbourhood entry below says whether it is worth booking a room there.
Is Pavlos Melas safe?+
SafetyMap estimates Pavlos Melas (Παύλος Μελάς) at 50 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 police-recorded offence rate of its regional unit (Eurostat, 2021–2024), apportioned by how built-up Pavlos Melas is. As a rate, the estimate comes to roughly 1,100 property and 100 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year.
How does Pavlos Melas compare with the rest of Thessaloniki?+
Pavlos Melas is estimated at 50 out of 100 for violent crime, against 46 for Thessaloniki as a whole — safer than its surroundings.