The Expat Renter: How a New Yorker can navigate a move to Buenos Aires

Published by BrickUnderground on June 6, 2017

Buenos Aires by Sadie Teper @sadieteper via Unsplash

The Argentine capital is the fourth-most populous city in the Americas, after São Paulo, Mexico City and New York. According to the most recent census in 2010, nearly 3 million people reside in the city, while the population of Greater Buenos Aires is over 13 million. The population density in BA proper is about 13,680 inhabitants per square kilometer, or 34,800 per square mile, but spreads to only about 2,400 per square kilometer (6,100 per square mile) in the suburbs. New York City, by comparison, has 27,000 people per square mile, according to the Department of City Planning. Two thirds of the city's residents live in apartment buildings, and 30 percent in single-family homes. Among them are roughly 26,000 Americans.