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Central, Paraguay: crime rate and Safety score

Too few places to compare within Paraguay.

2/10 in the world

Weighted crime: 15,148 per 100,000 people (2025) Yearly rate estimated from 11 months.

Crime by type, as recorded by Ministerio Público del Paraguay (2025)

Type	Count	Per 100,000 a year	All places this source covers
Homicide
Intentional homicide	191	11.1	18.1
Attempts included: the Ministerio Público's own yearly series counts about a third of these as completed homicides.
Sexual offences
Sexual abuse of children	1,161	67.2	56.7
Sexual abuse of people in one's care	4	0.2	0.3
Sexual abuse of children online	5	0.3	0.2
Sexual acts with same-sex minors (penal code article 138)	1	0.1	0.2
Sex with a minor by deception (estupro)	248	14.4	16.4
Child sexual abuse images	26	1.5	41.9
Procuring	40	2.3	2.4
Living off prostitution	6	0.3	0.3
Violence
Grievous bodily harm	83	4.8	10.5
Attempts included.
Threats	4,104	237.6	204.8
Attempts included.
Ill-treatment of children in one's care	737	42.7	27
Human trafficking	19	1.1	1.7
Robbery
Robbery	2,110	122.2	86.3
Attempts included.
Aggravated robbery	3,247	188	123.6
Attempts included.
Robbery resulting in death	15	0.9	1.1
Extortion	581	33.6	24.1
Theft and burglary
Theft	13,698	793.2	583
Attempts included.
Aggravated theft	10,890	630.6	466.5
Attempts included.
Especially serious theft	269	15.6	14.1
Misappropriation	2,624	151.9	144.9
Drugs
Drug trafficking (cases of the specialised unit)	502	29.1	42.3
Other
Negligent homicide (mostly traffic)	179	10.4	15.3
Fraud	5,084	294.4	236.3
Computer fraud	576	33.4	42.5
Unlawful access to computer systems	170	9.8	14.9
Tampering with data	155	9	7.4
Neglect of a duty of care to a child	1,186	68.7	44.2
Failure to pay child support	1,932	111.9	118.3
Other cases (all cases less the lines published apart)	50,376	2,917.1	2,387.9
Includes family violence, which the Ministerio Público does not publish by department.

Source: Ministerio Público del Paraguay, updated 26 October 2026.

Recorded crime by type (2025)

Homicide	191
Sexual offences	1,491
Violence	4,943
Robbery	5,953
Theft and burglary	27,481
Drugs	502
Other	59,658

Source: Ministerio Público del Paraguay, Programa de Datos Abiertos, Dirección de Transparencia y Acceso a la Información Pública: causas ingresadas por departamento (last updated December of the year shown); groups ours; residents: INE Paraguay, Censo 2022; outlines: geoBoundaries (DGEEC, CC BY 4.0), updated 26 October 2026.