Overview
- The City of Buenos Aires statistics office said a four‑person homeowner household needed $2,076,904 to $6,646,095 in November to be classified as middle class.
- The poverty line was set at $1,308,061 and the indigence threshold at $703,325 for the same reference household.
- Applying market rent benchmarks lifts the entry point for renting families to roughly $3,064,110, topping $3 million for the first time, according to reports using the Zonaprop index.
- City inflation measured 2.4% in November, bringing the 2025 year‑to‑date rise to 28.3% and the year‑over‑year increase to 32.6%.
- Food and housing costs drove the increases, with meats up 4.5% and fruits up 6.8% in November and year‑to‑date gains of 34.7% for rents and 33.5% for building fees.