City Travel Stats

Buenos Aires

Argentina · Latin America & Caribbean

60Safety indexModerate
1US flagU.S. State DeptLevel 1 · Normal precautions
1CA flagGlobal Affairs CanadaLevel 1 · Normal precautions
1GB flagUK FCDOLevel 1 · Normal precautions
1AU flagSmartraveller (AU)Level 1 · Normal precautions
5/5metric categories covered
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-34.60°, -58.38°
Regional locator · ring ≈ the figure's geographic unit

The safety picture

A plain-language read of the sourced figures below

Buenos Aires scores 60 out of 100 in our composite index, and it ranks safer than only 25% of the cities we score.

Its homicide rate is 2.6 per 100,000, about 1.6 times the median for the cities we track, and we calculated that rate ourselves from a raw count and a population. Recorded robbery is much higher at 2,205.1 per 100,000. That figure is police-recorded, so it counts only reported incidents and marks a floor rather than the full picture. All four governments we track hold Argentina at their lowest advisory level, and every advisory that covers the country flags pickpocketing and scams aimed at visitors. On perception, 47.6% of people said they feel safe walking alone at night, though that survey covers the whole country and not the city on its own.

Safety dimensions

Larger area = more concern
Violent crimeRobbery & theftTravel advisory
Violent crime5
Robbery & theft100
Travel advisory0
The radar shows the three sourced, comparable risk measures (homicide, robbery, the strictest travel-advisory level). Tourist petty-crime signals are a different kind of measure — how often advisories mention them — so they are shown as rows under Tourist-specific incidents, not as radar axes.

Homicide / general violence

Intentional homicides (per 100,000)
2.6/100k
Rate computed by project-atlas: 81 (count, 2024) ÷ 3119304 population (INDEC — Censo Nacional de Población Hogares y Viviendas 2022, 2022) × 100k.

Primary source: SNIC — Sistema Nacional de Información Criminal (Ministerio de Seguridad, Argentina)

Where this sits on the scaleGuarded
01·3·8·20·40 /100k
Among tracked citiessafer than 38% of tracked cities
2.6/100k
0/100k safest101.2/100k

Robbery (police-recorded)

Robbery (per 100,000)
2205.1/100k
Police-recorded robbery undercounts true incidence — a share of robberies in Argentina go unreported (cifra negra). Read this as recorded robbery, not total robbery.
Rate computed by project-atlas: 68784 (count, 2024) ÷ 3119304 population (INDEC — Censo Nacional de Población Hogares y Viviendas 2022, 2022) × 100k.

Primary source: SNIC — Sistema Nacional de Información Criminal (Ministerio de Seguridad, Argentina)

Where this sits on the scaleExtreme
040·120·250·400·600 /100k
Among tracked citiessafer than 1% of tracked cities
2205.1/100k
0.4/100k safest3097.8/100k

Travel advisories

U.S. State Department
1US flagU.S. State DeptLevel 1 · Normal precautions

Primary source: U.S. Department of State — Argentina Travel Advisory

Global Affairs Canada
1CA flagGlobal Affairs CanadaLevel 1 · Normal precautions

Primary source: Global Affairs Canada — Argentina Travel Advice and Advisories

UK FCDO
1GB flagUK FCDOLevel 1 · Normal precautions

Primary source: UK FCDO — Argentina travel advice

Smartraveller (Australia)
1AU flagSmartraveller (AU)Level 1 · Normal precautions

Primary source: Australian Government (DFAT Smartraveller) — Argentina travel advice

Perceived safety

How safe people say they feel, from official population surveys — a separate signal, not part of the Safety Index.
Feel safe walking alone at night
National survey
47.6%feel safe
47.6% of people surveyed · Argentina · 2016
Survey figure is for Argentina (country), wider than Buenos Aires itself.
From a 2016 survey — older than 7 years; perceptions may have shifted.

Primary source: UN SDG 16.1.4 — feel safe walking alone at night (UNODC)

Tourist-specific incidents

How often government travel advisories mention each — a source-consensus signal, not a risk rate.
Pickpocketing & petty theft in travel advisories
3 of 3 advisories mention this
project-atlas count: 3 of 3 reviewed government advisories mention this. A source-consensus signal, not a measured risk rate.

Primary source: Global Affairs Canada — Argentina travel advice (Safety and security)

Scams & fraud in travel advisories
3 of 3 advisories mention this
project-atlas count: 3 of 3 reviewed government advisories mention this. A source-consensus signal, not a measured risk rate.

Primary source: Global Affairs Canada — Argentina travel advice (Safety and security)