-Alto Paraguay

Alto Paraguay, Paraguay: crime rate and Safety score

Too few places to compare within Paraguay.

4/10 in the world

Weighted crime: 6,262 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	3	19	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	4	25.4	56.7
Sexual abuse of people in one's care	0	0	0.3
Sexual abuse of children online	0	0	0.2
Sexual acts with same-sex minors (penal code article 138)	0	0	0.2
Sex with a minor by deception (estupro)	1	6.3	16.4
Child sexual abuse images	0	0	41.9
Procuring	0	0	2.4
Living off prostitution	0	0	0.3
Violence
Grievous bodily harm	8	50.8	10.5
Attempts included.
Threats	12	76.1	204.8
Attempts included.
Ill-treatment of children in one's care	3	19	27
Human trafficking	0	0	1.7
Robbery
Robbery	3	19	86.3
Attempts included.
Aggravated robbery	2	12.7	123.6
Attempts included.
Robbery resulting in death	0	0	1.1
Extortion	0	0	24.1
Theft and burglary
Theft	29	184	583
Attempts included.
Aggravated theft	15	95.2	466.5
Attempts included.
Especially serious theft	2	12.7	14.1
Misappropriation	4	25.4	144.9
Drugs
Drug trafficking (cases of the specialised unit)	7	44.4	42.3
Other
Negligent homicide (mostly traffic)	0	0	15.3
Fraud	6	38.1	236.3
Computer fraud	0	0	42.5
Unlawful access to computer systems	0	0	14.9
Tampering with data	0	0	7.4
Neglect of a duty of care to a child	2	12.7	44.2
Failure to pay child support	9	57.1	118.3
Other cases (all cases less the lines published apart)	186	1,180	2,387.9
Includes family violence, which the Ministerio Público does not publish by department.

Source: Ministerio Público del Paraguay, updated 25 October 2026.