Florence remains second only to Milan in Italy’s provincial crime rankings, despite a year-on-year decline in reported offences. Prato and Livorno also feature among the country’s 10 highest-ranked provinces, according to the Sole 24 Ore’s 2026 Crime Index.
The ranking, based on consolidated data from the Interior Ministry’s inter-agency law enforcement database, measures reported offences per 100,000 inhabitants. It therefore reflects the incidence of reported crime relative to the resident population, rather than the absolute number of offences or residents’ perceptions of safety.
Florence recorded 6,374.34 crime reports per 100,000 inhabitants, placing it second nationally, unchanged from the previous edition. However, reported offences fell by 2.9% in 2025 compared with 2024. Milan retained first place, with more than 7,000 reports per 100,000 residents and a 0.6% increase. Rome ranked third, followed by Bologna, Turin, Rimini and Genoa. Prato came eighth and Livorno tenth.
A mixed picture across Tuscany
Elsewhere in Tuscany, Pisa dropped nine places to 24th nationally, with 16,952 reported offences and a rate of 4,040.15 per 100,000 inhabitants. Grosseto ranked 26th, recording 8,563 reports, equivalent to 3,985.33 per 100,000 residents. Lucca placed 30th, with 14,097 reported offences, while Massa-Carrara ranked 32nd, with 6,845. Further down the table, Arezzo came 64th, with 10,161 reports and a rate of 3,048.89 per 100,000 inhabitants, down six places on the previous year. Siena ranked 66th, with 7,814 reports and the lowest rate among Tuscany’s ten provinces, at 3,011.15 per 100,000 residents.
Italy records its first decline in reported crime in four years
Nationwide, approximately 2.36 million offences were reported in 2025, a decrease of 42,242, or 1.8%, compared with 2024. This marks the first annual decline after four consecutive years of increases. The total nevertheless remains 2.4% higher than in 2019.
The fall was driven largely by a reduction in theft. Reports of theft dropped to 992,660, almost 62,000 fewer than the previous year, representing a decline of 5.9%. The figure fell below one million for the first time since 2022, although theft still accounted for 42.1% of all reported offences. Thefts from parked vehicles fell by 16.2%, burglaries by 8.7% and pickpocketing by 6%. Robberies also declined, by 3.6%, with street robberies down 7.7%.
By contrast, online scams and computer fraud continued to increase. There were 298,651 reported cases, up 4.4% year on year and 40.8% compared with 2019. Reports of criminal damage rose by 3.9% to 288,938, while assault increased by 3.4% and extortion by 1.4%.
The number of intentional homicides fell from 326 in 2024 to 289 in 2025, a decrease of 11.3%. This is the lowest figure in the historical series dating back to 1950, matching the level recorded in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic. Attempted homicides also declined, falling by 13.1% to 993. Reports of sexual violence were down 2.8%, following years in which greater awareness and willingness to report such offences had contributed to the emergence of the problem in official statistics.
