// West · Comuna 11 · Quiet middle
Villa General Mitre
Small, quiet, residential, and central-west, tucked between Paternal, Caballito, and Villa Santa Rita.
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Villa General Mitre at a glance
Villa General Mitre is a small, plain grid of houses and low apartment blocks between busier barrios, quiet and largely unremarked. It covers 2.17 km² in the city's west, Comuna 11, with 34,250 residents at the 2022 census — about 15,800 people per km², about the median barrio's density (14,700).
People who want value and calm near busier neighborhoods.
Low destination density: good as a base, not as a scene.
Anchors
The places that define Villa General Mitre · our read- StreetAvenida Juan B. Justo
The Metrobús and the shops on the southern edge; the barrio's one busy street.
- StreetAvenida San Martín
The avenue through the barrio with the buses; inside the grid there is little else.
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Fit scores
12 marks · 1 low · 10 highclubs, cost value and healthcare
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$1,861 per m² for a used two-bedroom (−14% vs the city). One-bedroom asking rents changed by +25.1% 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 · 202526.7 reported robberies and thefts per 1,000 residents — below the city rate of 32.2.
401 robberies (with violence or threat) and 514 thefts were reported in Villa General Mitre in 2025, against 34,250 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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