Expat Living Italy
For expats moving to, or retiring in, Italy

Italy in July draws people in. The data is here for February.

Official Italian data for expats and retirees on where to live, what it costs and how it is taxed, sourced and dated, down to every comune. Read it yourself, or hand it to your AI assistant.

A southern Italian hill town in late afternoon light, its cathedral and stone houses standing above a ravine.
comuni, the grain everything is published at
7,894
published layers, each with its own page
59
institutions behind them, from ISTAT to Eurostat
10
last refresh; each figure keeps its own vintage
16 Oct 2026

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Living in Italy as an expat starts with a town, not a country

A practical guide to living in Italy as an expat: how to narrow 7,894 towns to a shortlist using house prices, climate, regional healthcare and well-being data, following an American couple's search across Puglia, Sicily and Abruzzo.

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Italy's 7% Pensioner Tax Is Real. Here's Where You Can Qualify and Why the Location Matters

Italy’s 7% tax regime can make retirement significantly more affordable. But where you qualify — and what life actually looks like there — can make all the difference.

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Browse residential prices, by province

€566/m²in Biella, the cheapest province in Italy, with the other 109 on the same page

Source
Agenzia delle Entrate · OMI
Vintage
2025H2
Coverage
7,596 of 7,894 comuni

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The rest of the data

59 layers, from 10 institutions, among them ISTAT, the Agenzia delle Entrate, the MEF, Eurostat and the Ministero della Salute. Each one is published at the level its source measures it, from comune up to province, region or European NUTS region, and each one states that level, when it was collected and how much of Italy it covers.

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The data catalog

Every layer we hold: what it measures, which institution it came from, when it was last refreshed, and how much of the country it covers.

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