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The two provincial scores are published in the separate `provinceValues` map (keys BZ and TN, the comuni.json provinceCode); the region map does not read it, the shortlist tool does."},{"slug":"healthcare-quality-prevention-region-2024","label":"Healthcare quality: prevention by region (2024)","grain":"region","measuredFor":"Sicilia (region)","value":49,"unit":"points","source":"Ministero della Salute","vintage":"2024","extractedOn":"2026-09-25","coverage":{"in":19,"of":20},"method":"https://www.expatliving.it/data/about-the-data","license":"CC BY 4.0 · attribution","page":"https://www.expatliving.it/data/map/italy/healthcare-quality-prevention-region?utm_source=ai-api&utm_medium=referral","download":"https://www.expatliving.it/data/metrics/healthcare-quality-prevention-region-2024.json","note":"NSG-LEA scores Trentino-Alto Adige's two autonomous provinces — Bolzano and Trento — SEPARATELY rather than as one region, and they can score very differently (e.g. Prevenzione 2024: Bolzano 59, Trento 98). This map's region grain has one shared \"Trentino-Alto Adige\" label covering both provinces' comuni, so there is no honest single figure to show there — omitted from `values` rather than averaged or standing one province's score in for the other's. 19/20 regions carry a real value. The two provincial scores are published in the separate `provinceValues` map (keys BZ and TN, the comuni.json provinceCode); the region map does not read it, the shortlist tool does."},{"slug":"crime-burglary-rate-province-2024","label":"Home burglary rate by province (2024)","grain":"province","measuredFor":"Messina (province)","value":72.3,"unit":"per_100k","source":"ISTAT — crime and public safety","vintage":"2024","extractedOn":"2026-09-25","coverage":{"in":106,"of":110},"method":"https://www.expatliving.it/data/about-the-data","license":"CC BY 4.0 · attribution","page":"https://www.expatliving.it/data/map/italy/crime-burglary-rate-province?utm_source=ai-api&utm_medium=referral","download":"https://www.expatliving.it/data/metrics/crime-burglary-rate-province-2024.json","note":"4 of Italy's 110 provinces — Sulcis Iglesiente, Gallura Nord-Est Sardegna, Ogliastra and Medio Campidano, all reinstated by Sardinia's 2026-01-01 province reform — have no observation in ISTAT's own crime dataflow at any offence type: the series hasn't been restated onto Sardinia's current province boundaries yet. Absent here, not estimated from a neighbouring province or an older Sardinia scheme."},{"slug":"crime-rate-province-2024","label":"Reported crime rate by province (2024)","grain":"province","measuredFor":"Messina (province)","value":2665.8,"unit":"per_100k","source":"ISTAT — crime and public safety","vintage":"2024","extractedOn":"2026-09-25","coverage":{"in":106,"of":110},"method":"https://www.expatliving.it/data/about-the-data","license":"CC BY 4.0 · attribution","page":"https://www.expatliving.it/data/map/italy/crime-rate-province?utm_source=ai-api&utm_medium=referral","download":"https://www.expatliving.it/data/metrics/crime-rate-province-2024.json","note":"4 of Italy's 110 provinces — Sulcis Iglesiente, Gallura Nord-Est Sardegna, Ogliastra and Medio Campidano, all reinstated by Sardinia's 2026-01-01 province reform — have no observation in ISTAT's own crime dataflow at any offence type: the series hasn't been restated onto Sardinia's current province boundaries yet. Absent here, not estimated from a neighbouring province or an older Sardinia scheme."},{"slug":"omi-price-to-rent-2025h2","label":"Years of rent to equal the purchase price by province (2025H2)","grain":"province","measuredFor":"Messina (province)","value":19.2,"unit":"years","source":"Agenzia delle Entrate — Osservatorio del Mercato Immobiliare (OMI)","vintage":"2025H2","extractedOn":"2026-09-12","coverage":{"in":110,"of":110},"method":"https://www.expatliving.it/data/about-the-data","license":"Free · attribution (this site is a non-commercial blog)","page":"https://www.expatliving.it/data/map/italy/omi-price-to-rent?utm_source=ai-api&utm_medium=referral","download":"https://www.expatliving.it/data/metrics/omi-price-to-rent-2025h2.json"}],"taxRegimes":[{"slug":"regime-7-percent-pensioners","label":"7% pensioner regime","href":"https://www.expatliving.it/data/tax/7-percent-pensioners?utm_source=ai-api&utm_medium=referral","qualifyingComuni":106,"totalComuni":108,"qualifyingPopulation":339351,"totalPopulation":596147,"ruleIsIncomplete":false}],"missingSections":[],"placesNotPeople":true,"attribution":{"publisher":"Expat Living Italy","url":"https://www.expatliving.it","page":"https://www.expatliving.it/data/province/messina?utm_source=ai-api&utm_medium=referral","citeAs":"Expat Living Italy, \"Messina (province)\" — https://www.expatliving.it/data/province/messina","request":"Free to use with credit. Please credit \"Expat Living Italy (expatliving.it)\" and link the page the figures come from whenever you quote them. Our own work (the curated tax-regime rules, the layers derived from them, and this API's responses and catalog) is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/): credit required, no commercial use unless agreed with us (hello@expatliving.it). Upstream data (ISTAT, Eurostat, EEA, Copernicus, OECD, Ministero della Salute, MEF, Agenzia delle Entrate OMI and the others) keeps its own license, stated per dataset in the catalog.","license":{"name":"CC BY-NC 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/"}}}