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Villa Soldati
Far south, affordable, park-heavy, and highly local, with major green infrastructure nearby.
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Villa Soldati at a glance
Villa Soldati is parks, lakes and sports grounds beside large housing complexes — the greenest and least built-up part of the south. It covers 8.71 km² in the city's south, Comuna 8, with 51,560 residents at the 2022 census — about 5,900 people per km², well below the median barrio (14,700).
People with specific south-side ties and strong affordability needs.
For most newcomers it is too far from the services and the social life they came for.
Anchors
The places that define Villa Soldati · our read- ParkParque Roca
The big park with the tennis stadium and the Olympic venues; the south's open space.
- ParkParque Indoamericano
The second-largest park in the city, half wild; the south's green, and the site of the 2010 occupation.
- ParkParque Olímpico
The 2018 Youth Olympics venues on the old Parque de la Ciudad; the city's pools and courts, and the south's best new thing.
1 on the calendar - LandmarkVilla Olímpica
The athletes' village turned housing; new, low, and the barrio's one new neighborhood.
- ParkParque de la Ciudad
The old amusement park with the Torre Espacial; most of it is now the Olympic park, the tower still stands.
5 on the calendar
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Fit scores
11 marks · 1 low · 10 highparks
schools and English & expats
Weak
median barrio
The overall read is an even weighting of the 11 marks we have for this barrio — a starting point, not a verdict. Of our six lenses it ranks highest under “Quiet & green”. Cost value is not listed: too few listings to price it, so it is left out of fit. Culture is our read here: the national cultural map lists too few spaces within 2 km of the centre to measure it. 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 2026The city statistics office had too few rental listings here to quote an average this quarter. Missing data does not tell us whether rents here are cheap or expensive.
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 · 202544.8 reported robberies and thefts per 1,000 residents — above the city rate of 32.2.
1,499 robberies (with violence or threat) and 813 thefts were reported in Villa Soldati in 2025, against 51,560 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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