Άνω Τούμπα · district
Ano Toumba scores 31 out of 100 for violent crime — above-average crime, on a scale where 50 is the average for Greece. It is home to about 28,715 people at 15,626 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 upper, unplanned half of Toumba, thrown up from 1923 by refugees from Asia Minor, Pontos and Eastern Thrace on the hill that gave the district its name. It is steep, irregular and densely built, with Plateia Agiou Theraponta — once the Carpet-Weavers' Square — at its heart and Anatolikis Thrakis street as its commercial spine. It is also PAOK country: the Toumba stadium sits in it, and matchdays reorganise the whole neighbourhood.
A working residential hill: quiet lanes, corner tavernas, little passing trade. Match nights are the exception, when police units seal streets around the stadium and there is a real history of clashes outside it.
There is essentially no visitor accommodation, and no reason to seek it unless you are going to the football. Stay nearer the metro or the centre and come up by bus.
Streets and squares: Plateia Agiou Theraponta · Anatolikis Thrakis · Grigoriou Lampraki · Kleanthous