-Alto Paraná

Alto Paraná, Paraguay: crime rate and Safety score

Too few places to compare within Paraguay.

2/10 in the world

Weighted crime: 11,422 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	116	16.6	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	381	54.4	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)	1	0.1	0.2
Sex with a minor by deception (estupro)	109	15.6	16.4
Child sexual abuse images	9	1.3	41.9
Procuring	21	3	2.4
Living off prostitution	1	0.1	0.3
Violence
Grievous bodily harm	87	12.4	10.5
Attempts included.
Threats	1,133	161.8	204.8
Attempts included.
Ill-treatment of children in one's care	205	29.3	27
Human trafficking	21	3	1.7
Robbery
Robbery	501	71.6	86.3
Attempts included.
Aggravated robbery	1,040	148.6	123.6
Attempts included.
Robbery resulting in death	10	1.4	1.1
Extortion	175	25	24.1
Theft and burglary
Theft	2,376	339.4	583
Attempts included.
Aggravated theft	2,919	417	466.5
Attempts included.
Especially serious theft	74	10.6	14.1
Misappropriation	821	117.3	144.9
Drugs
Drug trafficking (cases of the specialised unit)	266	38	42.3
Other
Negligent homicide (mostly traffic)	127	18.1	15.3
Fraud	913	130.4	236.3
Computer fraud	659	94.1	42.5
Unlawful access to computer systems	1	0.1	14.9
Tampering with data	53	7.6	7.4
Neglect of a duty of care to a child	213	30.4	44.2
Failure to pay child support	868	124	118.3
Other cases (all cases less the lines published apart)	13,905	1,986.3	2,387.9
Includes family violence, which the Ministerio Público does not publish by department.

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