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Saavedra
Leafy, family-oriented, northwestern, and quieter, with excellent park access.
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Saavedra at a glance
Leafy, low and distinctly family: streets of houses with gardens, Parque Saavedra's football pitches and runners, the DOT mall and the General Paz at the edge. You are at the city's northern border, so a lot of daily life spills into Vicente López next door, and the bus or the car does more work than the train. Quiet is the product — no subte, no nightlife, and kids and dogs in the street by six.
Families, runners and dog owners who want a house-ish life inside the city line.
Near the General Paz and the DOT it is towers and traffic, not hedges; the quiet streets are the ones between the park and the railway.
Anchors
The places that define Saavedra · our read- ParkParque Saavedra
The park at the center with the football pitches and the runners; the barrio's point.
1 on the calendar - ParkParque Sarmiento
The city's biggest sports park — pools, pitches, a velodrome — at the northern edge; drive or bike, it is vast.
- ShoppingDOT Baires Shopping
The mall by the General Paz with the cinema and the supermarket; the barrio's indoor errands.
- MuseumMuseo Histórico Saavedra
The city's history museum in an old estancia house in Parque General Paz; quiet, and the barrio's one museum.
1 on the calendar - LandmarkPuente Saavedra
The bridge over the General Paz into Vicente López and the bus knot under it; half of daily life crosses here.
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Fit scores
12 marks · 1 low · 10 highhealthcare, parks and quiet
cost value and English & expats
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 “With kids”. 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$2,760 per m² for a used two-bedroom (+28% vs the city). One-bedroom asking rents changed by +34.8% 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 · 202532 reported robberies and thefts per 1,000 residents — around the city rate of 32.2.
773 robberies (with violence or threat) and 942 thefts were reported in Saavedra in 2025, against 53,665 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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