La Paz

InfoCasas on 6 October 2026: 135 listings for rent of three-bedroom apartments in La Paz (all 7 pages of results). The site shows prices in dollars: median 785, the middle half of listings from 600 to 1200. But more than a third of owners state the price in bolivianos, and the site converts it at roughly the old rate of 6.9-7 (for example, it shows 5000 Bs as 724 dollars), so we convert back at 6.96: median about 5500 Bs, middle half 4200-8400 Bs. Check: in 53 listings the price in bolivianos is written directly in the text, their median is 6000 Bs, middle half 4200-9000. By district (site prices): Calacoto in the Zona Sur, 69 listings, median 1000 dollars, about 7000 Bs; Achumani, 30, median about 630 (about 4400 Bs); Sopocachi, 13, median 650 (about 4500 Bs). Another 32 owners ask for dollars in the text; at the official rate of 11.97 their price in bolivianos is higher than our conversion. In some listings the deposit equals one month's rent, and the agent takes the same. These are asking prices, not deals.

Anticrético is a Bolivian way of renting: the tenant hands the owner a large sum for an agreed term and lives without monthly payments, and at the end of the term the money is returned. On InfoCasas on 6 October 2026 there were 27 listings of three-bedroom apartments in anticrético in La Paz: median about 42,000 dollars, middle half 40,000-55,000, from 35,470 to 70,000 and one offer at 300,000. The risk is that the sum is returned by a private person; we did not check the terms of the contract or its registration.

InfoCasas on 6 October 2026, all 13 pages of results for “sale of three-bedroom apartments, La Paz”: 255 listings without duplicates. Median 148,000 dollars, middle half 120,000-190,000, median price about 1070 dollars per m². By district: Achumani (58 listings) median 150,000; Calacoto (48) 217,500; Sopocachi (30) 152,500; Los Pinos (28) and Irpavi (21) 125,000 each; Miraflores (13) 135,000. There are 82 three-bedroom houses in the results, median 230,000, middle half 175,000-360,000, most of them in Achumani (33, median 250,000). Sales are in dollars. These are asking prices, not deals; we did not find official statistics of transactions.

INE, poverty line table by city: in December 2025 the poverty line (the cost of a basic food basket plus non-food needs) for the city of Nuestra Señora de La Paz was 1557.7 Bs per person per month. For a family of four this is 6231 Bs, our multiplication; at the central bank rate of 11.97 on 6 October 2026, about 520 dollars. A year earlier, in November-December 2024, the line was 1228.8 Bs per person, a rise of about 27% in a year. For comparison: El Alto 1555.2 Bs, Cochabamba 1481.5, Santa Cruz 1229.2, the urban average 1327.5. This is the official poverty threshold, not the budget of a newly arrived family: rent alone for a three-bedroom apartment by listings is about 5500 Bs.

INE, extreme poverty line table by city: the extreme poverty line is the cost of a basket of food only; in December 2025 for La Paz it was 755.0 Bs per person per month, 3020 Bs for a family of four, our multiplication, about 252 dollars at 11.97. In November-December 2024 it was 598.0 Bs per person, a rise of about 26% in a year. This is a minimum basket calculated from the 2015-2016 household budget survey, not the real spending of a family in a supermarket; we did not check store prices.

ANH regulated price table (last row 31 August 2026): liquefied gas (GLP) costs 2.25 Bs per kilogram and has not changed since 2010, even when gasoline became almost twice as expensive in December 2025. A 10 kg cylinder is 22.50 Bs, about 1.9 dollars at 11.97: this is our conversion. Natural gas is piped by the state company YPFB, but we did not find its tariff for homes or the network coverage in La Paz on its website. Before renting, it is worth asking whether piped gas reaches the building or whether the stove and water heater run on a cylinder.

Electricity in La Paz is sold by the distribution company DELAPAZ. The 2024 yearbook of the regulator AETN (table V-5): the average tariff for residential consumers of DELAPAZ is 10.88 US cents per kWh without VAT, 10.49 in 2023, 9.15 in 2016. The regulator calculates it as revenue divided by energy sold, so it is an average price, not the tariff steps; the tariff structure is the same for the whole department and is approved for four years. At the rate of 6.96 used by the yearbook itself (visible from its paired price tables in Bs and in dollars) this is about 0.76 Bs per kWh, and 300 kWh a month is about 227 Bs before tax: this is our arithmetic on the average price, not a DELAPAZ bill. We did not find the current tariff schedule with steps on the AETN website, and the DELAPAZ website did not open for us. Residential tariffs are set in bolivianos, so after the end of the fixed rate they became cheaper in dollars.

News on the website of the state company EPSAS dated 20 May 2024: the water tariff in La Paz, El Alto and the suburbs has not changed for 15 years, since resolution No. 028 of the regulator AAPS of 2009; the categories are residential, commercial, industrial, state and subsidized (solidaria). The subsidized tariff costs 1.78 Bs per m³ for those who use less than 15 m³ a month; according to the company, 85% of the 321,913 customers in El Alto use it. Meters are read every month. We did not find the full tariff table with the ordinary residential tariff for La Paz on the EPSAS website, so we do not calculate an example bill for 15 m³; whether the subsidized tariff applies to apartments in La Paz is not clear from the news.

INE table based on Ministry of Education data, regular education in 2025: the department of La Paz had 718,217 students, 623,507 in public and 94,710 in private institutions, that is about 13.2% (our percentage). By level, private institutions have 9175 children in kindergartens (inicial), 39,975 in primary school and 45,560 in secondary. Nationally the private share is about 11%. The figures are for the whole department, including El Alto and villages, so the private share in La Paz itself is probably higher, but the table has no such breakdown. We did not find the monthly fees of private schools in official sources.

INE table based on Ministry of Health data: in 2024 the department of La Paz had 4294 hospital beds and 723.8 inhabitants per bed, the same number of beds as in 2023; in 2005 there were 2739 beds and 935.1 inhabitants per bed. In Bolivia in 2024 there were 18,442 beds, 668.7 inhabitants per bed; the department of Santa Cruz had 5131 beds and 691.3 inhabitants. The population in the calculation is based on the old projection from before the 2024 census. The figures are for the whole department, including El Alto and villages; we did not check specific hospitals or private clinics. For how free public healthcare (SUS) works, see the country fact.

INE table based on Bolivian Police data, crime reports (denuncias) in the department of La Paz, 2018-2024 preliminary. In total there were 10,243 reports in 2024 (21,961 in 2013, the lowest 5391 in 2021). Against property 4395, of which robberies (robo) 1544 and thefts (hurto) 823; against life and health 3300. Homicide reports in 2023 were 69, with no data for 2024; in the department of Santa Cruz there were 228 in 2023. This is the number of reports, not of all crimes, and for the whole department including El Alto, not the city; we did not calculate per capita. We did not confirm natural hazards with official figures.

INE table based on data from the state company Mi Teleférico: in 2025 (preliminary) the La Paz cable car carried 87,672,207 passengers, 78.3 million in 2024, a record 96.8 million in 2019, and 11.5 million in its first year of operation, 2014. In January-July 2026 it has already carried 58.7 million, 9.4 million in June, more than in any month of 2025. Dividing the annual total by 12 months is ours. We did not check the network map or the ticket price.

In its section on Bolivia's geography INE names as the most important international airports of the country Viru Viru in Santa Cruz, El Alto in La Paz and Jorge Wilstermann in Cochabamba; the main axis of the national road network is La Paz - Oruro - Cochabamba - Santa Cruz, and to the west the network reaches Chile and Peru. The state airport operator NAABOL writes that El Alto airport is one of the oldest in the country: work on the site began in 1913, it officially opened in 1965, has had its current name since 1999 and was modernized in 2008; it serves domestic and international flights, and Wi-Fi is free. The airport is in the neighbouring city of El Alto, where it is noticeably colder than in La Paz (see the altitude fact). We did not find the airport's schedule or passenger traffic on the NAABOL pages.

Monthly mean temperatures for the city from the INE table based on SENAMHI data for 2016-2025: June 11.6 degrees, July 11.5, August 12.1, the three months together 11.7, which is our arithmetic; the warmest month, November, averages 14.9. There are almost no seasons by temperature, but a large gap between day and night: by the annual table of the La Paz station the mean annual maximum is 19.0-21.2 degrees, the mean minimum 5.7-6.6 (2005-2024), and the yearly absolute minimum from -2.0 to +1.6. In neighbouring El Alto the mean winter temperature is 5.7 degrees.

INE table based on SENAMHI data, monthly precipitation for the city of La Paz. Annual totals for 2016-2025 excluding 2020 (it lacks data for May and August): from 388 mm (2016) to 616 mm (2025), an average of 502 mm, which is our arithmetic. Monthly averages: February 104 mm, January 93, December 83, March 69, and from May to August 19, 6, 5 and 7 mm. December-March account for about 70% of the annual total. At the La Paz station there were from 90 to 155 days with precipitation a year (2005-2024).

The elevation of the La Paz municipality according to OpenStreetMap is 3640 m; we did not find an official page with this figure. INE places the west of the country in the Andean zone above 3000 m and writes that the temperature drops by 0.55 degrees for every 100 m of altitude. The difference is visible in the INE tables based on SENAMHI data: the mean temperature in June-August 2016-2025 is 11.7 degrees in La Paz and 5.7 in El Alto, where the international airport is. The yearly absolute minimum at the El Alto station in 2005-2024 ranged from -7.2 to -13.2 degrees, at the La Paz station from +1.6 to -2.0. We did not find the effects of altitude on health, including for children, in official Bolivian sources; altitude sickness is worth discussing with a doctor before moving.

Entel “Internet Fibra” page, Simple plans on 6 October 2026: 120 Mbps for 169 Bs a month, 200 Mbps for 229 Bs, 600 Mbps for 369 Bs, 1000 Mbps for 450 Bs. Installation fee 200 Bs, the ONT router is lent, billing is postpaid, and connection depends on technical feasibility at the address. At 11.97 the 200 Mbps plan costs about 19 dollars a month. The prices on the page are national; there is no separate price list for La Paz. The Tigo website returned a 403 error to us, so we did not compare other providers.