How safe is Greece?
Officially recorded crime for every regional unit - 46 in total - with rates per 1,000 residents, on an interactive map you can zoom from the whole country down to street level.
Across all 46 regional units of Greece, officially recorded crime ranges from about 0.4 per 1,000 residents in Evrytania to 14.4 in Thessaloniki. A typical regional unit sits at around 2.7 per 1,000. The two lists below show the five lowest and the five highest; the interactive map holds the full ranking, and you can zoom past the regional unit level to see how the picture changes from one area to the next.
Safest areas in Greece
- Evrytania - 0.4 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Chios - 0.8 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Kastoria - 1.0 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Grevena, Kozani - 1.1 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Karditsa, Trikala - 1.4 crimes / 1,000 residents
Highest recorded crime in Greece
- Thessaloniki - 14.4 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Attica - 12.5 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Achaia - 7.5 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Chalkidiki - 6.7 crimes / 1,000 residents
- Korinthia - 6.5 crimes / 1,000 residents
Read the numbers honestly. Rates are per 1,000 residents, so city centres and tourist areas look worse than they feel - many visitors, few residents. Recorded crime is not the same as how safe a place feels, and recording practices differ between countries, so compare within Greece only.
All 46 regional units (Athens shown as one Attica region), police-recorded offences (Eurostat, 2021) with violence and theft broken out - a selected set of offence types, not the full penal code. Whichever area you land on, the rate is counted per 1,000 residents, so you can weigh a capital city against a quiet town on the same scale - as long as both sit inside Greece. Use the search box to jump to a place by name, or the locate button to find the regional unit you are standing in right now.
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