// West · Comuna 10 · Calm west
Villa Luro
Quiet west-side residential barrio with rail access, value, and family-friendly streets.
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Photos: Dggionco CC BY-SA 4.0 · Ministry of Transport of Argentina CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
Villa Luro at a glance
Villa Luro is quiet streets of houses with front gardens near the rail, with local shops and a steady family rhythm. It covers 2.57 km² in the city's west, Comuna 10, with 34,645 residents at the 2022 census — about 13,500 people per km², about the median barrio's density (14,700).
People who want calm and affordability and still need the Sarmiento line and Rivadavia's buses.
Nobody comes here for restaurants or culture; choose it for home life.
Anchors
The places that define Villa Luro · our read- LandmarkEstación Villa Luro
The Sarmiento station and the shops around it; the barrio's center.
- StreetAvenida Rivadavia (the Villa Luro stretch)
The everything-avenue; the quiet is in the streets behind.
- PlazaPlaza Ejército de los Andes
The barrio's plaza; small, local, and the one green.
Photos: ProfesorFavalli CC BY-SA 3.0 · Dggionco CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
Fit scores
12 marks · 1 low · 10 highquiet
English & expats and schools
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$1,923 per m² for a used two-bedroom (−11% vs the city). One-bedroom asking rents changed by +43.1% 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 · 202526.6 reported robberies and thefts per 1,000 residents — below the city rate of 32.2.
357 robberies (with violence or threat) and 564 thefts were reported in Villa Luro in 2025, against 34,645 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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