// West · Comuna 7 · West-side hub
Flores
Big, busy, commercial, residential, and strongly connected along Rivadavia.
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Flores at a glance
Flores is a long commercial avenue with apartment blocks above the shopfronts, and quieter residential streets of houses and PHs behind it. It covers 8.61 km² in the city's west, Comuna 7, with 151,440 residents at the 2022 census — about 17,600 people per km², denser than the median barrio (14,700).
Value-focused movers who want transit and shopping with a more local west-side base.
It is large and uneven: north of Rivadavia and south of it are different barrios in everything but name.
Anchors
The places that define Flores · our read- PlazaPlaza Flores
The barrio's center, with the basilica on one side and the A line underneath; busy, local, and completely itself.
- LandmarkBasílica San José de Flores
The church on the plaza, the Pope's as a boy; the barrio's one monument.
- StreetAvenida Avellaneda
The wholesale clothing strip — Saturday chaos, the cheapest clothes in the city, and a bus you cannot get on.
- StadiumEstadio Pedro Bidegain (Nuevo Gasómetro)
San Lorenzo's ground in Bajo Flores; the south side of the barrio is a different place from the plaza.
- StreetAvenida Rivadavia (the Flores stretch)
Shops, banks, the A line and the buses; the barrio's everything-street, and its noise.
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Fit scores
12 marks · 1 low · 10 highcost value and walkability
English & expats and schools
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$1,723 per m² for a used two-bedroom (−20% vs the city). One-bedroom asking rents changed by +27.7% 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 · 202535.4 reported robberies and thefts per 1,000 residents — around the city rate of 32.2.
3,128 robberies (with violence or threat) and 2,231 thefts were reported in Flores in 2025, against 151,440 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.
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