-Itapúa

Itapúa, Paraguay: crime rate and Safety score

Too few places to compare within Paraguay.

3/10 in the world

Weighted crime: 9,454 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	54	13.1	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	235	57	56.7
Sexual abuse of people in one's care	1	0.2	0.3
Sexual abuse of children online	0	0	0.2
Sexual acts with same-sex minors (penal code article 138)	4	1	0.2
Sex with a minor by deception (estupro)	39	9.5	16.4
Child sexual abuse images	5	1.2	41.9
Procuring	7	1.7	2.4
Living off prostitution	1	0.2	0.3
Violence
Grievous bodily harm	47	11.4	10.5
Attempts included.
Threats	649	157.5	204.8
Attempts included.
Ill-treatment of children in one's care	26	6.3	27
Human trafficking	5	1.2	1.7
Robbery
Robbery	119	28.9	86.3
Attempts included.
Aggravated robbery	264	64.1	123.6
Attempts included.
Robbery resulting in death	1	0.2	1.1
Extortion	76	18.4	24.1
Theft and burglary
Theft	1,606	389.6	583
Attempts included.
Aggravated theft	1,787	433.6	466.5
Attempts included.
Especially serious theft	41	9.9	14.1
Misappropriation	569	138	144.9
Drugs
Drug trafficking (cases of the specialised unit)	122	29.6	42.3
Other
Negligent homicide (mostly traffic)	74	18	15.3
Fraud	777	188.5	236.3
Computer fraud	136	33	42.5
Unlawful access to computer systems	1	0.2	14.9
Tampering with data	96	23.3	7.4
Neglect of a duty of care to a child	103	25	44.2
Failure to pay child support	431	104.6	118.3
Other cases (all cases less the lines published apart)	6,910	1,676.5	2,387.9
Includes family violence, which the Ministerio Público does not publish by department.

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