-Caaguazú

Caaguazú, Paraguay: crime rate and Safety score

Too few places to compare within Paraguay.

3/10 in the world

Weighted crime: 9,878 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	53	13.4	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	170	43	56.7
Sexual abuse of people in one's care	1	0.3	0.3
Sexual abuse of children online	2	0.5	0.2
Sexual acts with same-sex minors (penal code article 138)	0	0	0.2
Sex with a minor by deception (estupro)	58	14.7	16.4
Child sexual abuse images	8	2	41.9
Procuring	6	1.5	2.4
Living off prostitution	1	0.3	0.3
Violence
Grievous bodily harm	31	7.8	10.5
Attempts included.
Threats	822	207.8	204.8
Attempts included.
Ill-treatment of children in one's care	65	16.4	27
Human trafficking	6	1.5	1.7
Robbery
Robbery	114	28.8	86.3
Attempts included.
Aggravated robbery	157	39.7	123.6
Attempts included.
Robbery resulting in death	1	0.3	1.1
Extortion	66	16.7	24.1
Theft and burglary
Theft	1,177	297.6	583
Attempts included.
Aggravated theft	863	218.2	466.5
Attempts included.
Especially serious theft	25	6.3	14.1
Misappropriation	856	216.4	144.9
Drugs
Drug trafficking (cases of the specialised unit)	183	46.3	42.3
Other
Negligent homicide (mostly traffic)	77	19.5	15.3
Fraud	1,095	276.8	236.3
Computer fraud	1	0.3	42.5
Unlawful access to computer systems	4	1	14.9
Tampering with data	9	2.3	7.4
Neglect of a duty of care to a child	109	27.6	44.2
Failure to pay child support	442	111.7	118.3
Other cases (all cases less the lines published apart)	8,965	2,266.4	2,387.9
Includes family violence, which the Ministerio Público does not publish by department.

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