Safetlas

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.

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

  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

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.

Open the interactive map of Italy →

107 provinces drill down to all 108 provincial capitals - Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan - with pickpocketing (borseggio) in the breakdown.