Official ISTAT data · 108 provincial capitals · 2006–2024
Fewer crimes are reported in Italy than fifteen years ago. But not everywhere, and not all of them.
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A tool for reading the official crime data up close: city by city, crime by crime, year by year. Spikes, meaning sudden increases, are marked in gold.
Source: ISTAT
How have things gone where you live?
Type the name of your town and open its profile: every reported crime, year by year since 2006, alongside Italy as a whole, with the share of households that feel at risk. Official ISTAT data only.
Every Italian town. For the 108 provincial capitals the data are for the municipality itself; for the others ISTAT only publishes figures for the province, and the profile says so.
Where the most crimes are reported, and where the fewest
Most reports
Fewest reports
Full ranking of the 108 provincial capitals (table)
What’s going up and what’s going down
These are crimes reported to the police, not convictions. Reports don’t all fall together: tap a crime to see it in every city.
Where something changed suddenly
A spike is a year in which reports of a crime suddenly jump: at least a quarter above the average of the previous three years, with at least 20 cases and a jump that chance alone does not explain. “By extra cases” puts first the increases that affect the most people, “By % increase” the ones that grew the most compared with the previous years. How we spot them.
The sharpest falls
City by city, from 2006 to 2024
Beyond the reports
Nine questions about what happens after a crime is reported, in court and in prison, and about what crime figures leave out: who gets reported, returns, fear. A police report is not a conviction. All the deep dives.
Foreign nationals in Italian prisons
How many there are, from which countries, for which crimes, and why the comparison with residents should be read with caution.
Read the deep dive ReturnsHow many returns are ordered, and how many carried out
Country by country, the orders to leave Italy and the returns actually carried out, year by year since 2008.
Read the deep dive Perception and realityHow unsafe we feel, and how unsafe we are
Fear of crime alongside reported crimes: in Italy as a whole, in the big cities and province by province.
Read the deep dive Unknown offendersHow many crimes remain without a known offender
How many reported crimes have a known offender: crime by crime, in the big cities and province by province.
Read the deep dive MinorsMinors reported and arrested
How many there are among the people reported, for which crimes and region by region: the numbers since 2004, their share since 2014.
Read the deep dive Pre-trial detentionIn prison before the verdict
How many people are held without a final conviction, and how much the State pays when custody turns out to be unjust, district by district.
Read the deep dive Prison by prisonHow full prisons are, and how many people die in them
Prison by prison, the people held and the places available month by month since 2019, and deaths in prison according to who counts them.
Read the deep dive TrialsFrom crime to verdict
How many cases prosecutors open, how long trials and appeals last, how many end because time runs out: district by district and court by court.
Read the deep dive Outside prisonSentences served outside prison
Probation, home detention, semi-liberty and probation before trial: how many people, how it has changed since 2014, region by region.
Read the deep dive