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Mataderos
A proud barrio on the far south-western edge, with the Sunday folk fair, lower density and a strong local identity.
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Mataderos at a glance
Mataderos is low houses with front gardens and wide avenues around the old stockyards, where the Sunday feria happens and no subte reaches. It covers 7.41 km² in the city's south, Comuna 9, with 67,455 residents at the 2022 census — about 9,100 people per km², less dense than the median barrio (14,700).
People seeking affordability, space, and a very local Buenos Aires rhythm.
A long way from central nightlife; a daily commitment in Palermo or Recoleta means an hour each way.
Anchors
The places that define Mataderos · our read- MarketFeria de Mataderos
The Sunday gaucho fair — folk music, horses, empanadas — and the one thing the rest of the city knows the barrio for.
- LandmarkMercado de Hacienda
The cattle market the barrio was built for, closed in 2022; a huge site waiting to become something.
- ParkParque Alberdi
The big park on the avenue; the barrio's sports fields and its Sunday.
- StadiumNueva Chicago
The barrio's club and its stadium; the identity is loud and local.
- TheatreCine Teatro El Plata
The restored 1945 cinema on Alberdi, now a city theatre; the barrio's one night out that is not football.
6 on the calendar
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Fit scores
12 marks · 1 low · 10 highparks
transit and schools
Weak
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$1,715 per m² for a used two-bedroom (−21% 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 · 202532.6 reported robberies and thefts per 1,000 residents — around the city rate of 32.2.
1,033 robberies (with violence or threat) and 1,164 thefts were reported in Mataderos in 2025, against 67,455 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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