// West · Comuna 7 · Family park
Parque Chacabuco
Family-friendly, park-centered, and more affordable than Caballito while staying connected.
Hero: illustration adapted from a photograph by Roberto Fiadone (CC BY-SA 4.0). Illustration credits and adaptation licenses.
Photos: Roberto Fiadone CC BY 4.0 · Banfield CC BY-SA 2.5 ar · via Wikimedia Commons
Parque Chacabuco at a glance
Parque Chacabuco is apartment blocks and houses facing a well-used park, a family-weekend rhythm, and the subte at the edge. It covers 3.84 km² in the city's west, Comuna 7, with 61,822 residents at the 2022 census — about 16,100 people per km², about the median barrio's density (14,700).
Families and remote workers who want a real park nearby and a calm west-side base.
Few restaurants and cafés by the standards of the trendier barrios; the evening is at home or on the avenue.
Anchors
The places that define Parque Chacabuco · our read- ParkParque Chacabuco
The park with the public pools and the sports fields; the barrio's center and most of its weekend.
1 on the calendar - StreetAvenida Asamblea
The shops and the E line stations; the barrio's useful street.
- StreetAvenida La Plata
The avenue along the park's edge, with the buses; traffic on it, calm behind it.
Photos: Jorge Gobbi CC BY 2.0 · Banfield CC BY-SA 2.5 ar · via Wikimedia Commons
Fit scores
12 marks · 1 low · 10 highculture 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 “Quiet & green”. 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$2,062 per m² for a used two-bedroom (−5% vs the city). One-bedroom asking rents changed by +24.7% 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 · 202538.3 reported robberies and thefts per 1,000 residents — above the city rate of 32.2.
1,505 robberies (with violence or threat) and 864 thefts were reported in Parque Chacabuco in 2025, against 61,822 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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