Expat Living Italy

Dreaming of a life in Italy? Make the decision with evidence, not guesswork.

We make Italy’s official data easier to explore, compare and use, so you can make one of life’s biggest decisions with confidence.

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A southern Italian hill town in late afternoon light, its cathedral and stone houses standing above a ravine.
7,894comuni covered. That is the grain everything here is published at.
48data layers, from 16 official sources including ISTAT, the Agenzia delle Entrate and Eurostat.
17 Sept 2026last refreshed. Every figure also carries its own vintage.

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Where in Italy Would You Have the Best Life? Italy's Own Data Says It Depends

Italy measures many of the things that can shape your everyday life. But it deliberately doesn’t combine them into a ranking. The true answer depends on what matters most to you.

Caitlin · articles.expatliving.it ↗

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Italy ranks 5th in Europe for open data. It still took a month to find out what a house costs.

What breaks between a public dataset and an answer you can actually use. Notes from a month of building on ISTAT and Agenzia delle Entrate data.

Eugenio · articles.expatliving.it ↗
Data · collected by usA layer of its own, not the data behind the article above.

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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48 layers, from 16 official sources: ISTAT, the Agenzia delle Entrate, the MEF, Eurostat and the Ministero della Salute. Each one is published at three grains, comune, province and country, and each one states when it was collected and how much of Italy it covers.

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