// West · Comuna 10 · Local west
Floresta
Residential, lower-key and more affordable, with the Sarmiento line and the A line within reach at its edges.
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Floresta at a glance
Floresta is ordinary west-side streets of houses, PHs and small buildings, with the shops gathered along the rail and the avenues. It covers 2.33 km² in the city's west, Comuna 10, with 36,846 residents at the 2022 census — about 15,800 people per km², about the median barrio's density (14,700).
People who want a quieter west-side apartment and do not need nightlife downstairs.
Fewer destination cafes and cultural venues than the central barrios.
Anchors
The places that define Floresta · our read- LandmarkEstación Floresta
The 1857 station, one of the oldest in the country; the commercial center of a quiet grid.
- StadiumAll Boys (Estadio Islas Malvinas)
The barrio's team and its stadium on Avenida Mercedes; match days are the loudest the barrio gets.
- StreetAvenida Rivadavia (the Floresta stretch)
The Sarmiento line, the shops and the A line's last stations; the only part of the barrio with a pulse after nine.
- Street · over the line in FloresAvenida Avellaneda
The wholesale clothing strip — Saturday chaos, the cheapest clothes in the city, and a bus you cannot get on.
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Fit scores
12 marks · 1 low · 10 highcost value
parks and English & expats
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 “On a budget”. 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$1,676 per m² for a used two-bedroom (−22% vs the city). 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 · 202532.8 reported robberies and thefts per 1,000 residents — around the city rate of 32.2.
538 robberies (with violence or threat) and 671 thefts were reported in Floresta in 2025, against 36,846 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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