How safe is Italy?

Officially recorded crime for every province - 99 in total - with rates per 1,000 residents, on an interactive map you can zoom from the whole country down to street level.

Data period: calendar year 2024 (latest published). Sources: ISTAT delitti denunciati · ISTAT population · GISCO/NUTS boundaries.

Across all 99 provinces of Italy, officially recorded crime ranges from about 19.9 per 1,000 residents in Potenza to 65.6 in Firenze - about 3 times as high. A typical province sits at around 32.4 per 1,000. The two lists below show the five lowest and the five highest; the interactive map holds the full ranking, and you can zoom past the province level to see how the picture changes from one area to the next.

Safest areas in Italy

1. Potenza - 19.9 crimes / 1,000 residents
2. Benevento - 22.3 crimes / 1,000 residents
3. Enna - 23.2 crimes / 1,000 residents
4. Sondrio - 23.4 crimes / 1,000 residents
5. Treviso - 23.5 crimes / 1,000 residents

Highest recorded crime in Italy

1. Firenze - 65.6 crimes / 1,000 residents
2. Roma - 64.3 crimes / 1,000 residents
3. Bologna - 61.2 crimes / 1,000 residents
4. Rimini - 60.5 crimes / 1,000 residents
5. Torino - 58.7 crimes / 1,000 residents

Popular cities in Italy

Heading to one city? These guides answer “is it safe?” with the same official data, broken down by neighbourhood:

• Is Rome safe?
• Is Milan safe?
• Is Florence safe?
• Is Venice safe?
• Is Naples safe?
• Is Turin safe?
• Is Bologna safe?
• Is Genoa safe?
• Is Verona safe?
• Is Palermo safe?
• Is Pisa safe?

Read the numbers honestly. Rates are per 1,000 residents, so city centres and tourist areas look worse than they feel - many visitors, few residents. Recorded crime is not the same as how safe a place feels, and recording practices differ between countries, so compare within Italy only.

107 provinces drill down to all 108 provincial capitals - Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan - with pickpocketing (borseggio) in the breakdown. Whichever area you land on, the rate is counted per 1,000 residents, so you can weigh a capital city against a quiet town on the same scale - as long as both sit inside Italy. Use the search box to jump to a place by name, or the locate button to find the province you are standing in right now.