// West · Comuna 11 · Family local
Villa del Parque
Residential, pleasant, family-friendly, and locally commercial around the rail corridor.
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Villa del Parque at a glance
Villa del Parque is houses with gardens and low buildings around a lively rail-side shopping street, family-paced and well served. It covers 3.41 km² in the city's west, Comuna 11, with 61,236 residents at the 2022 census — about 18,000 people per km², denser than the median barrio (14,700).
People who want calm north-western living with a real high street for the daily errands.
A slow trip to Palermo or Recoleta at night; the San Martín line does not run late.
Anchors
The places that define Villa del Parque · our read- LandmarkEstación Villa del Parque
The San Martín line station and the shopping around it; the barrio's center.
- StreetCalle Cuenca
The shopping street by the station, part of it pedestrian; the west's nicest high street.
- PlazaPlaza Aristóbulo del Valle
The big plaza by the station with the weekend fair; the barrio's green and its meeting point.
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Fit scores
12 marks · 1 low · 10 highclubs, quiet and safety
parks 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”. 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$2,164 per m² for a used two-bedroom (at the the city average). One-bedroom asking rents changed by +34.6% 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 · 202518.6 reported robberies and thefts per 1,000 residents — well below the city rate of 32.2.
512 robberies (with violence or threat) and 624 thefts were reported in Villa del Parque in 2025, against 61,236 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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