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48 city barrios and 12 Zona Norte localities

Colored by zone, first bases at full strength. Hover a place for its marks; tap to open its guide. Faded places are outside your filters. Martínez and Acassuso have no official boundary file; theirs are approximate.

North 9 · Palermo, Recoleta, Belgrano, NúñezThe river side, where most newcomers land: the best-served and most expensive quarter, and where English carries furthest.
Center 12 · San Telmo, Almagro, Villa Crespo, the office coreThe old city and the grid around it: the densest transit, the cheapest central rents, and the most noise under the window.

North 9 · Palermo, Recoleta, Belgrano, NúñezThe river side, where most newcomers land: the best-served and most expensive quarter, and where English carries furthest.
Center 12 · San Telmo, Almagro, Villa Crespo, the office coreThe old city and the grid around it: the densest transit, the cheapest central rents, and the most noise under the window.
West 18 · Caballito, Villa Devoto, FloresWhere porteños live: a residential grid along the A and B subte lines, calmer and cheaper the further you get from the river.
South 9 · Barracas, La Boca, Parque PatriciosThe industrial south: the lowest asking rents in the city and the thinnest transit and services. See it before you sign, not a first landing.
Zona Norte 12 · Vicente López, Olivos, Martínez, San Isidro, TigreAcross the General Paz in the province: houses with gardens, the river clubs, the bilingual schools, and a train into Retiro.

// how we score8 of 12 from public data · 4 local input

Eight of the twelve dimensions are computed from public data — asking rents, transit stops, green space, cultural spaces, hospitals, schools, member clubs and reported crime; four are our own read of the place, labelled as such wherever they appear. Rents are the city statistics office's average asking prices for Q2 2026, converted to dollars at the quarter's bank rate. Fit is printed as a band, never a percentage. How we score, with every source and its date →

// can't find the name you heard?48 official barrios · 12 zona norte localities

The finder uses the 48 official barrios of the city and the main localities of Zona Norte. The names people use house-hunting don't always match — here's where the common ones land.

MicrocentroUseful everyday shorthand for the downtown office core, but not an official barrio. Treat it as mostly San Nicolas, with edges into Monserrat and Retiro.San Nicolás Monserrat Retiro
Palermo Soho, Hollywood and Las CañitasReal-life subareas inside Palermo. They matter for vibe and price, but this first pass keeps the canonical page at Palermo.Palermo
Barrio ChinoA very useful destination label around Belgrano C. It is not one of the 48 official barrios, so it rolls up to Belgrano here.Belgrano
OnceCommon name for the shopping and transit hub around Plaza Miserere. Officially, it sits inside Balvanera.Balvanera
FloridaOften considered by movers because it is close and practical. It is in Vicente López, outside Capital Federal — one of the Zona Norte localities on this map, with the same scores and prices read against the barrios.Florida
Zona NorteThe northern suburbs past Avenida General Paz, in the Province of Buenos Aires: the river towns of Vicente López, San Isidro and San Fernando partidos and Tigre beyond. Different landlord rules, different taxes, the same train lines into Retiro.Vicente López San Isidro Tigre
San Isidro, Vicente López, Tigre (the partidos)Each name is both a municipality (partido) and the town inside it. Listings use them loosely: an apartment 'in San Isidro' may be in Boulogne. The pages here are the towns; the partido is named on each.San Isidro Vicente López Tigre
NordeltaNot an official locality but a private gated development in Tigre partido, big enough to count as its own place. Addresses say Rincón de Milberg or Benavídez; the market says Nordelta.Nordelta
Munro, Carapachay, Villa Adelina, Villa MartelliThe inland localities of Vicente López partido, west of the Panamericana: more affordable and more workaday than the river towns, with the Belgrano Norte train. Not profiled yet; Florida and Boulogne are the closest reads.Florida Boulogne