HoodEx has a profile for every part of Athens — all 552 areas, each about 700 metres across. Here is what it says about prices and where the city is greenest, liveliest and easiest to get around.
Modelled estimates, not measurements — and all currently low confidence. Use them to narrow a shortlist.
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Athens spreads across the Attica basin between mountain ranges and the Saronic Gulf, its dense urban fabric interrupted by limestone hills including Lykabettus. The housing stock is dominated by concrete apartment blocks, interspersed with older low-rise quarters and neoclassical remnants. A metro network, buses, and trolleys serve the center, though many residents rely on cars and traffic congestion is common. The climate brings hot, dry summers and mild, rainy winters. Commercial streets and small squares anchor daily life in most neighborhoods, reflecting a consistent strength in community and services, while parks and substantial greenery remain limited. The physical condition of housing and streets varies considerably from one area to the next, more so than social or natural amenities.
These parts of Athens have been measured in full rather than modelled — each has its own page with the five scores, the readings underneath them and photos of the streets.
Across the 24 measured areas HoodEx has mapped in Athens, the average score is 6.8 out of 10 — solid. That places Athens 20th of the 33 cities measured so far, 0.2 above the 6.6 average across those cities.
The highest-scoring area is Ακαδημία at 7.8/10; the lowest is Νέα Κυψέλη at 5.9/10. A gap of only 1.9 points means Athens is fairly even: most areas offer a similar standard, and the choice comes down to what kind of place you want rather than how good it is. 5 of the 24 areas score 7 or better.
Averaged across Athens: green & air 4.7, comfort & safety 6.7, homes & buildings 5.3, shops & services 8.7 and getting around 8.3, each out of 10.
Athens's strongest category is shops & services — community life and local services — at 8.7/10, 2.0 above the 6.7 average for that category. The weakest is green & air — greenery and environmental quality — at 4.7/10, 1.0 below the 5.7 average. Those two are the shape of the city: what it gives you everywhere, and what you have to hunt for.
Against the other 33 measured cities, Athens ranks 7th for shops & services.
The score that swings most from one Athens area to the next is homes & buildings: 3.1/10 in Μεταξουργείο, 7.4/10 in Ακαδημία — a spread of 4.3 points. In practice that means what you are actually renting or buying is the thing your choice of address actually decides here.
By contrast shops & services moves by only 1.6 points across the whole city, so it is close to a constant: worth knowing about Athens, but not worth paying extra for one street over another.
Within Greece, HoodEx has measured 4 cities, averaging 6.3/10. Athens is 0.5 above the 6.3 average for the country, 1st of the 4.
No single area wins on everything, so it is worth knowing which one leads on the thing you care about. In Athens that is most green space: Μετς (5.7/10 green & air), best connected: Ακαδημία (9.1/10 getting around), strongest community life: Ακαδημία (9.1/10 shops & services) and best housing stock: Ακαδημία (7.4/10 homes & buildings).
Open any of them below for the full breakdown — the five category scores, the components underneath them, and what residents have reported.
Every HoodEx neighbourhood is scored from 0 to 10 in five categories. Scores are generated by AI analysis of satellite imagery, street-level imagery, points of interest and public datasets, then blended into a single overall score.
HoodEx has scored 24 neighbourhoods in Athens. New areas are added when someone checks a local address.
The average overall score across scored Athens neighbourhoods is 6.8/10, blended from our five scoring categories — 0.2 above the 6.6 average across the 33 cities HoodEx has measured.
Ακαδημία currently has the highest overall score in Athens at 7.8/10, 1.9 points ahead of the lowest-scoring measured area, Νέα Κυψέλη (5.9/10).
Μετς scores highest on green & air in Athens at 5.7/10, covering green space, air and water quality and natural features. The city average for green & air is 4.7/10.
Ακαδημία leads on getting around — transit access, road connectivity, walkability and reaching everyday destinations — at 9.1/10, against a Athens average of 8.3/10.
Homes & buildings varies most across Athens — a spread of 4.3 points between Μεταξουργείο (3.1/10) and Ακαδημία (7.4/10). That makes what you are actually renting or buying the thing your address decides here, while shops & services is close to constant citywide (1.6 points).
HoodEx has measured 4 cities in Greece, averaging 6.3/10. Athens is 0.5 above the 6.3 average, ranking 1st of the 4.
Every neighbourhood is scored 0–10 in five categories — Green & air, Comfort & safety, Homes & buildings, Shops & services, and Getting around — using AI analysis of satellite imagery, street-level imagery, points of interest and public datasets. The five category scores are blended into a single overall score.
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Scores update as new analyses are run and community feedback comes in. Each neighbourhood page shows when it was last updated.