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Villa Devoto
Leafy, handsome, house-heavy, and one of the city's calmest upscale residential options.
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Villa Devoto at a glance
Villa Devoto is the most garden-heavy barrio in the city: large houses, hedges and old trees around a central plaza, with almost no towers. It covers 6.42 km² in the city's west, Comuna 11, with 71,602 residents at the 2022 census — about 11,200 people per km², less dense than the median barrio (14,700).
Families and long-term movers who want space, quiet, and a polished residential feel.
Beautiful, but far from central nightlife and weaker on subte access.
Anchors
The places that define Villa Devoto · our read- PlazaPlaza Arenales
The barrio's center, ringed by restaurants and the church; the one place in the west that feels like a town square.
1 on the calendar - LandmarkCárcel de Devoto
The federal prison — two blocks of wall in the middle of a garden barrio; the city keeps promising to move it.
- StreetThe restaurants around Arenales
A dozen good places within three blocks of the plaza; the barrio's evening, and the reason people drive in.
- PlazaPlaza Ricchieri
The second plaza, quieter, a few blocks from Arenales.
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Fit scores
12 marks · 1 low · 10 highquiet
transit and parks
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$2,447 per m² for a used two-bedroom (+13% vs the city). One-bedroom asking rents changed by +23.8% 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 · 202526.6 reported robberies and thefts per 1,000 residents — below the city rate of 32.2.
777 robberies (with violence or threat) and 1,131 thefts were reported in Villa Devoto in 2025, against 71,602 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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