-Boquerón

Boquerón, Paraguay: crime rate and Safety score

Too few places to compare within Paraguay.

3/10 in the world

Weighted crime: 10,042 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	23	35.3	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	51	78.3	56.7
Sexual abuse of people in one's care	2	3.1	0.3
Sexual abuse of children online	1	1.5	0.2
Sexual acts with same-sex minors (penal code article 138)	0	0	0.2
Sex with a minor by deception (estupro)	56	85.9	16.4
Child sexual abuse images	4	6.1	41.9
Procuring	3	4.6	2.4
Living off prostitution	1	1.5	0.3
Violence
Grievous bodily harm	13	20	10.5
Attempts included.
Threats	24	36.8	204.8
Attempts included.
Ill-treatment of children in one's care	19	29.2	27
Human trafficking	1	1.5	1.7
Robbery
Robbery	2	3.1	86.3
Attempts included.
Aggravated robbery	8	12.3	123.6
Attempts included.
Robbery resulting in death	0	0	1.1
Extortion	8	12.3	24.1
Theft and burglary
Theft	81	124.3	583
Attempts included.
Aggravated theft	49	75.2	466.5
Attempts included.
Especially serious theft	9	13.8	14.1
Misappropriation	40	61.4	144.9
Drugs
Drug trafficking (cases of the specialised unit)	25	38.4	42.3
Other
Negligent homicide (mostly traffic)	20	30.7	15.3
Fraud	118	181.1	236.3
Computer fraud	2	3.1	42.5
Unlawful access to computer systems	1	1.5	14.9
Tampering with data	0	0	7.4
Neglect of a duty of care to a child	26	39.9	44.2
Failure to pay child support	67	102.8	118.3
Other cases (all cases less the lines published apart)	527	808.8	2,387.9
Includes family violence, which the Ministerio Público does not publish by department.

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