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Nueva Pompeya
Industrial, tango-historic, south-side, and affordable, with a very local feel.
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Photos: Roberto Fiadone CC BY-SA 4.0 · Dario Alpern CC BY-SA 3.0 · Banfield CC BY-SA 2.5 ar · Marielaespinosa CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
Nueva Pompeya at a glance
Nueva Pompeya is low houses, old factories and wide, empty-feeling avenues by the bend in the Riachuelo, strongly local and cheap. It covers 4.96 km² in the city's south, Comuna 4, with 44,180 residents at the 2022 census — about 8,900 people per km², less dense than the median barrio (14,700).
People with south-side ties or a specific reason to be near Pompeya and Parque Patricios.
Not a broad newcomer recommendation; transit and evening comfort are limiting factors.
Anchors
The places that define Nueva Pompeya · our read- LandmarkPuente Alsina
The neo-colonial bridge over the Riachuelo, in every tango about the south; the barrio's one monument.
- LandmarkBasílica de Nuestra Señora de Pompeya
The church the barrio is named for, on the Sáenz avenue; the center of what center there is.
- StreetAvenida Sáenz
The commercial strip and the buses to the bridge; the rest of the barrio is quiet and low.
Photos: Sergio Moises Panei Pitrau CC BY-SA 4.0 · Roberto Fiadone CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
Fit scores
12 marks · 1 low · 10 highcost value and healthcare
schools 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”. 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$1,342 per m² for a used two-bedroom (−38% 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 · 202545.2 reported robberies and thefts per 1,000 residents — above the city rate of 32.2.
1,112 robberies (with violence or threat) and 885 thefts were reported in Nueva Pompeya in 2025, against 44,180 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.