-Asunción

Asunción, Paraguay: crime rate and Safety score

Too few places to compare within Paraguay.

1/10 in the world

Weighted crime: 38,080 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	172	40.6	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	286	67.5	56.7
Sexual abuse of people in one's care	4	0.9	0.3
Sexual abuse of children online	1	0.2	0.2
Sexual acts with same-sex minors (penal code article 138)	4	0.9	0.2
Sex with a minor by deception (estupro)	35	8.3	16.4
Child sexual abuse images	2,277	537.4	41.9
Procuring	16	3.8	2.4
Living off prostitution	2	0.5	0.3
Violence
Grievous bodily harm	141	33.3	10.5
Attempts included.
Threats	1,579	372.7	204.8
Attempts included.
Ill-treatment of children in one's care	137	32.3	27
Human trafficking	28	6.6	1.7
Robbery
Robbery	1,518	358.3	86.3
Attempts included.
Aggravated robbery	1,176	277.5	123.6
Attempts included.
Robbery resulting in death	10	2.4	1.1
Extortion	221	52.2	24.1
Theft and burglary
Theft	7,808	1,842.7	583
Attempts included.
Aggravated theft	4,794	1,131.4	466.5
Attempts included.
Especially serious theft	153	36.1	14.1
Misappropriation	1,367	322.6	144.9
Drugs
Drug trafficking (cases of the specialised unit)	275	64.9	42.3
Other
Negligent homicide (mostly traffic)	32	7.6	15.3
Fraud	2,495	588.8	236.3
Computer fraud	737	173.9	42.5
Unlawful access to computer systems	573	135.2	14.9
Tampering with data	22	5.2	7.4
Neglect of a duty of care to a child	271	64	44.2
Failure to pay child support	414	97.7	118.3
Other cases (all cases less the lines published apart)	16,065	3,791.4	2,387.9
Includes family violence, which the Ministerio Público does not publish by department.

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

Recorded crime by type (2025)

Homicide	172
Sexual offences	2,625
Violence	1,885
Robbery	2,925
Theft and burglary	14,122
Drugs	275
Other	20,609

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 25 October 2026.