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
66
institutions behind them, from ISTAT to Eurostat
12
last refresh; each figure keeps its own vintage
11 Nov 2026

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Data · collected by usA layer of its own, not the data behind the article above.

National seismic hazard zone (zona sismica 1-4), by comune

795comuni sit in seismic zone 1, the highest hazard of four, while all 377 Sardinian comuni are in zone 4

Source
Dipartimento della Protezione Civile
Vintage
31 May 2025
Coverage
7,891 of 7,894 comuni

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The rest of the data

66 layers, from 12 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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