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Boedo
Tango, football, cafes, and neighborhood identity with better value than the fashionable north.
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Boedo at a glance
Boedo is two- and three-storey houses, PHs and tiled bars, with a football stadium, a tango history and nothing arranged for visitors. It covers 2.62 km² in the city's center, Comuna 5, with 49,680 residents at the 2022 census — about 19,000 people per km², denser than the median barrio (14,700).
People who want a rooted barrio feel while staying fairly central.
Little international infrastructure and few polished towers; this is a barrio for people who want a barrio, not a landing pad.
Anchors
The places that define Boedo · our read- LandmarkEsquina Homero Manzi
The corner of San Juan and Boedo from the tango — now a dinner-show bar, and the barrio's calling card.
- StreetAvenida Boedo
Cafés, bars and old bookshops; the barrio's whole social life on one avenue.
- LandmarkCafé Margot
The bar notable with the pavo sandwich; proof the barrio's cafés are for locals, not visitors.
- ClubSan Lorenzo (the club on Avenida La Plata)
The club's social headquarters and the site of its lost stadium; the identity the whole barrio wears.
- PlazaPlaza Mariano Boedo
The barrio's one plaza, on the avenue; small, used, and the only green for blocks.
Photos: Roberto Fiadone CC BY 4.0 · Mauricio V. Genta CC BY-SA 3.0 · Mariano Public domain · EzequielEsposito CC BY 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
Fit scores
12 marks · 1 low · 10 highculture, healthcare and clubs
parks and transit
Fair
median barrio
The overall read is an even weighting of the 12 marks we have for this barrio — a starting point, not a verdict. Of our six lenses it ranks highest under “Creative & nightlife”. The tick is the median of the 48 barrios. Eight marks are computed from public data and four are our read; what goes into each is on how we score.
What it costs
average asking prices · Q2 2026To buy: about US$1,772 per m² for a used two-bedroom (−18% vs the city). One-bedroom asking rents changed by +30.4% year on year in pesos. Budget separately for expensas (building fees) and utilities. These used-apartment benchmarks are not furnished short-stay quotes or offers. Figures are averages of what landlords ask — IDECBA (city statistics office), from Argenprop listings; 2nd quarter 2026, provisional — converted at the Banco Central de la República Argentina (BCRA, Argentina’s central bank) retail seller rate, Q2 2026 average.
Reported robbery & theft
reported crimes · 202526.7 reported robberies and thefts per 1,000 residents — below the city rate of 32.2.
640 robberies (with violence or threat) and 685 thefts were reported in Boedo in 2025, against 49,680 residents in private dwellings at the 2022 census. Reporting rates, visitors, population changes since the census and differences between blocks limit the comparison. These counts do not measure all crime or predict personal safety. Source: the city's open crime map — method and sources.
A barrio is half the decision. The other half is the lease — the guarantee, the up-front cash, the contract terms — and that part we walk through with you.