// West · Comuna 15 · Residential pocket
La Paternal
Quiet, residential and football-rooted, tucked between busier neighbors on the way west.
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La Paternal at a glance
La Paternal is low houses, mechanics' workshops and a football club, with artists' studios in old industrial buildings and very little traffic. It covers 2.24 km² in the city's west, Comuna 15, with 21,092 residents at the 2022 census — about 9,400 people per km², less dense than the median barrio (14,700).
People who want value and calm beside Villa Crespo and Agronomía without paying to be inside either.
You trade restaurant density and subte convenience for quiet.
Anchors
The places that define La Paternal · our read- StadiumEstadio Diego Armando Maradona
Argentinos Juniors' ground, where Maradona started; the barrio's identity in one word.
- LandmarkEstación La Paternal
The San Martín line station; the trains, not the subte, are how the barrio moves.
- PlazaPlaza Roque Sáenz Peña
The one plaza, and the center of the few blocks with shops.
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Fit scores
12 marks · 1 low · 10 highparks, clubs and culture
English & expats and food & cafes
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 “Quiet & green”. Cost value stands on the asking sale price per m², as no rent is quoted here. 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 2026The city statistics office had too few rental listings here to quote an average this quarter. Missing data does not tell us whether rents here are cheap or expensive.
To buy: about US$1,875 per m² for a used two-bedroom (−13% 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 · 202530.5 reported robberies and thefts per 1,000 residents — around the city rate of 32.2.
287 robberies (with violence or threat) and 357 thefts were reported in La Paternal in 2025, against 21,092 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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