What are the latest crime statistics for montevideo by neighborhood in 2025?
Executive summary
Official, neighborhood-level crime statistics for Montevideo in 2025 are not available in the provided reporting; the public record instead consists of a mix of crowd-sourced indices, property-market summaries and thematic crime analyses that together show a consistent pattern — lower crime rates in affluent coastal barrios like Carrasco and Punta Carretas and higher concentrations of violence and organized-crime activity in peripheral neighborhoods and around port and transit corridors — but precise, comparable 2025 numbers by neighborhood cannot be validated from these sources [1] [2] [3].
1. What the available sources actually measure and their limits
The most granular figures in the reporting come from non-governmental compilations: a property-market piece reports neighborhood incident rates (for example Carrasco ~8 incidents per 1,000 residents and Punta Carretas ~10 per 1,000) while other datasets are crowd-sourced (Numbeo) or commercial crime-aggregation sites that mix U.S. and Uruguayan city data, and therefore must be treated cautiously because they do not cite police precinct spreadsheets or national statistical releases for 2025 [1] [4] [5].
2. Broad neighborhood pattern supported across sources
Multiple analyses converge on a clear geography: wealthier, coastal neighborhoods register the lowest reported incident rates and are perceived as safest, whereas violence, homicides and organized-crime activity cluster in peripheral, poorer neighborhoods and transit hubs — a dynamic documented in an urban-violence study that found homicides concentrated in specific areas of Montevideo and in reporting on mafia-style networks operating in peripheral barrios and using port/airport logistics [3] [2] [6].
3. What the property and market-oriented data say about 2025
TheLatinvestor’s 2025 neighborhood overview gives specific per‑1,000-resident comparisons, naming Carrasco and Punta Carretas as among the lowest-crime barrios with figures of about 8 and 10 incidents per 1,000 respectively, and frames crime as a driver of property values and rental demand — useful for relative comparisons but not a substitute for official police statistics or standardized crime-rate methodology [1].
4. Organized crime, ports and drug-trafficking as complicating factors
Country- and region-focused reporting highlights Montevideo’s role as a trans-shipment hub for cocaine bound for Europe and flags port and airport nodes as focal points for trafficking and related criminal networks; these national-level patterns imply neighborhood variation tied to logistics corridors and peripheral criminal groups rather than even city‑wide distribution of serious crimes [6] [2].
5. Conflicting or U.S.-centric datasets and why they matter
Several search hits refer instead to Montevideo, Minnesota or to U.S.-style crime-aggregation platforms (CrimeGrade, AreaVibes, City-Data) that produce neighborhood-like breakdowns for small U.S. cities; those figures (for Montevideo, MN) are not relevant to Uruguay’s capital and underscore the risk of conflating sources when seeking 2025 neighborhood statistics for Montevideo, Uruguay [7] [8] [9] [10].
6. Bottom line and what’s needed for definitive 2025 neighborhood numbers
The assembled sources allow confident statements about patterns — coastal barrios show lower reported incident rates, peripheral neighborhoods and transport hubs show higher risk, and Montevideo plays a role in national organized‑crime supply chains — but they do not provide an official, neighborhood-by-neighborhood table of 2025 crime counts standardized by population; obtaining that would require municipal police or national statistical releases for 2025 or access to primary precinct-level datasets, neither of which are present in the provided reporting [1] [2] [3].