-Guairá

Guairá, Paraguay: crime rate and Safety score

Too few places to compare within Paraguay.

3/10 in the world

Weighted crime: 9,434 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	13	7.9	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	82	49.8	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	0.6	0.2
Sex with a minor by deception (estupro)	52	31.6	16.4
Child sexual abuse images	2	1.2	41.9
Procuring	3	1.8	2.4
Living off prostitution	0	0	0.3
Violence
Grievous bodily harm	14	8.5	10.5
Attempts included.
Threats	244	148.2	204.8
Attempts included.
Ill-treatment of children in one's care	31	18.8	27
Human trafficking	2	1.2	1.7
Robbery
Robbery	36	21.9	86.3
Attempts included.
Aggravated robbery	48	29.2	123.6
Attempts included.
Robbery resulting in death	0	0	1.1
Extortion	22	13.4	24.1
Theft and burglary
Theft	555	337.2	583
Attempts included.
Aggravated theft	486	295.3	466.5
Attempts included.
Especially serious theft	17	10.3	14.1
Misappropriation	416	252.7	144.9
Drugs
Drug trafficking (cases of the specialised unit)	86	52.3	42.3
Other
Negligent homicide (mostly traffic)	26	15.8	15.3
Fraud	541	328.7	236.3
Computer fraud	42	25.5	42.5
Unlawful access to computer systems	17	10.3	14.9
Tampering with data	26	15.8	7.4
Neglect of a duty of care to a child	34	20.7	44.2
Failure to pay child support	262	159.2	118.3
Other cases (all cases less the lines published apart)	3,601	2,187.8	2,387.9
Includes family violence, which the Ministerio Público does not publish by department.

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