Where claims cost most in Greece

No company publishes its prices by area. What is published is how often a claim happens and what it costs - the ΕΑΕΕ Statistical Yearbook 2024 , by prefecture. Multiply frequency by average cost and out comes the euro an insured vehicle costs a year, before a company adds anything - the technical cost, not the price.

The five zones against the national average

Each zone's average is weighted by the population of each prefecture - a stand-in for vehicle counts, which the yearbook does not give by prefecture - from the 2021 ΕΛΣΤΑΤ census. 1.0× is the country itself.

The mistake in the «cheap» islands

«Islands» sits last in the order of zones, on the assumption that fewer cars meet each other there. The yearbook counts the claims, and disagrees: it is two different risks inside one zone.

Chania and Zakynthos cost more than the rural mainland average; Lesvos and Samos less than half of it. The tourist islands carry the zone's difference.

What each kind of vehicle costs

The same technical cost, by vehicle type instead of place. A taxi costs 2.31 times a private car in third-party liability claims.

What we do not know yet

Each zone's average is weighted by population, not by vehicle count - nobody publishes the second one by prefecture. A tourist island keeps more cars than its population implies. The size of the error is measured: the five zones weighted by their share of the fleet land 7.2% off the national figure ΕΑΕΕ publishes itself. See how we calculate.

Download the table of the prefectures (CSV). You may use it freely: name the ΕΑΕΕ (Hellenic Association of Insurance Companies) as the source of the data and this page as the source of the calculation.