// North · Comuna 13 · Quiet north-central
Colegiales
Palermo-adjacent but calmer, with rail, cafes, low-rise pockets, and strong day-to-day livability.
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Colegiales at a glance
Palermo's calm cousin, one railway line over: low houses and small buildings, the flea market at the edge, cafés on Cramer and Dorrego with room to sit down. Plaza Mafalda on a Saturday is prams, dogs and a queue for ice cream; by eleven at night the streets are quiet enough to hear the trains. Everyone who finds it says the same thing — that it is what Palermo used to be — and the rents have started to agree with them.
People who liked Palermo on the visit and want to sleep at night.
Small and low-rise means thin supply, and what's cheap backs onto the railway.
Anchors
The places that define Colegiales · our read- MarketMercado de las Pulgas
The flea market: antiques, mid-century furniture and the lamps every Palermo café bought; the barrio's one famous address.
- PlazaPlaza Mafalda
Prams, dogs and an ice-cream queue on a Saturday; the center of the quiet, expensive part.
- PlazaPlaza Clemente
The second plaza, on the Chacarita side; quieter than Mafalda, with the same prams.
- Music venueTeatro Vorterix
The rock venue in an old cinema on Lacroze; the one loud night in an otherwise early barrio.
4 on the calendar - StreetAvenida Federico Lacroze
The commercial spine and the bus corridor; the flats on it are cheaper for a reason.
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Fit scores
12 marks · 1 low · 10 highhealthcare, schools and transit
cost value and parks
Good
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 “Car-free”. 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$2,686 per m² for a used two-bedroom (+24% vs the city). One-bedroom asking rents changed by +36.9% 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 · 202523.3 reported robberies and thefts per 1,000 residents — below the city rate of 32.2.
612 robberies (with violence or threat) and 675 thefts were reported in Colegiales in 2025, against 55,242 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.