By type of crime
- 45Overall safety
- 42Property crime
- 48Violent crime
Ilioupoli scores 48 out of 100 (modelled estimate, Eurostat 2021–2024) for violent crime — average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. Ilioupoli has no police figures of its own. Its estimate is Pavlos Melas's rate — Pavlos Melas scores 50 for violent crime — and the 2 points between them come from how the model shares Pavlos Melas's total out, not from anything measured in Ilioupoli. An estimated 8,100 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 Ilioupoli is actually like
A residential neighbourhood of the Stavroupoli unit, split in local usage into Ano and Kato Ilioupoli. It appears by name in one piece of reporting that matters: the February 2024 account of a wave of shop break-ins across western Thessaloniki listed Ilioupoli alongside Kordelio, Evosmos, Ampelokipoi and Polichni. Beyond that it is unremarkable dense housing with neighbourhood shops. Note the name is shared with a much larger Athens suburb and with Kato Ilioupoli in Evosmos, which muddies searches badly. Its weekly street market (laiki) is on Mondays, 07:00-14:30, on Boumpoulinas street between Thermopylon and Oraiokastrou; the market is listed as Ano Ilioupoli.
After dark
The documented overnight issue is break-ins at shopfronts rather than street crime. Residential blocks are quiet; commercial frontages are the exposed thing once shutters are down.
What to watch for
- Overnight shopfront break-ins
- Name confusion with Ilioupoli in Athens and Kato Ilioupoli in Evosmos
Staying here
No reason to - purely residential, nothing for visitors, slow connections to the centre.
Other neighbourhoods in Pavlos Melas
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Questions people ask
Is Ilioupoli safe?+
SafetyMap estimates Ilioupoli (Ηλιούπολη) at 48 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 Pavlos Melas, since there are no police figures for Ilioupoli itself. As a rate, the estimate comes to roughly 1,100 property and 110 violent offences per 100,000 residents a year. The written notes on this page class it as “Ordinary precautions”.
Is Ilioupoli safe at night?+
The documented overnight issue is break-ins at shopfronts rather than street crime. Residential blocks are quiet; commercial frontages are the exposed thing once shutters are down.
How does Ilioupoli compare with the rest of Pavlos Melas?+
Ilioupoli has no police figures of its own. Its estimate is Pavlos Melas's rate — Pavlos Melas scores 50 for violent crime — and the 2 points between them come from how the model shares Pavlos Melas's total out, not from anything measured in Ilioupoli.