// West · Comuna 11 · Understated calm
Villa Santa Rita
Small, residential, calm, and affordable, sitting quietly near Villa del Parque and Flores.
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Villa Santa Rita at a glance
Villa Santa Rita is a small, calm grid of houses, PHs and low buildings that gets by on the avenues around it — nobody moves here for the barrio, they move here for the rent. It covers 2.16 km² in the city's west, Comuna 11, with 34,817 residents at the 2022 census — about 16,100 people per km², about the median barrio's density (14,700).
People who want value and quiet without needing an identity-heavy neighborhood.
It is understated to the point of plain: few cafés, less culture, and a quiet that some people call empty.
Anchors
The places that define Villa Santa Rita · our read- StreetAvenida Nazca
The avenue with the shops and the buses; the barrio's one busy edge.
- StreetAvenida Álvarez Jonte
The other commercial edge; between the two avenues the barrio is a quiet grid.
- Plaza · over the line in Villa del ParquePlaza 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 highquiet
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 “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$2,127 per m² for a used two-bedroom (−2% vs the city). 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 · 202521.7 reported robberies and thefts per 1,000 residents — below the city rate of 32.2.
338 robberies (with violence or threat) and 419 thefts were reported in Villa Santa Rita in 2025, against 34,817 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.
A barrio is half the decision. The other half is the lease — the guarantee, the up-front cash, the contract terms — and that part we walk through with you.