01
Coste de vida
$1093/mo
IT · MILANDatos locales
Vivir en Milan.
Italy's business and tech capital, and the one city where English gets you through a professional day. It is also the most expensive place in the country to rent and sits in the Po Valley, whose winter air quality is among the worst in Western Europe.
Verificado
Población 1.362.863
· Europe/Rome· Se aplican las normas de Italy
ISTAT — Popolazione residente per età e sesso al 1° gennaio 2026 (POSAS), comune di Milano 015146
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 ene 2026
- Verificado
- 28 jul 2026
- Notas
- Comune di Milano only; the metropolitan city holds roughly 3.2 million. ISTAT flags the 1 January 2026 figures as an estimate aligned with census results.
IT · MILAN
01
Vista rápida
Las cifras principales de Milan, cada una con su fuente y su frescura. Una cifra oficial viva no es lo mismo que una estimación de encuesta ni que una normal climática de 30 años.
7.2/10
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Alquiler, 1–3 dorm.
$1100–$3349
/mes
03
Impuestos del autónomo
24,9%
Seguridad
9.9/100,57/100k
Calidad del aire
4.4/1019 µg/m³
Internet
2.2/1027 Mbps
Inglés
5.0/10Moderate
Sanidad privada
sin datos verificados
Qué significan las etiquetasoficial — cifra viva de un gobierno o una autoridaddatos abiertos — conjunto de datos abierto (Eurostat, AEMA, M-Lab, UdSC…)encuesta — estimación de una encuesta o un índicerecopilado — estimación montada por SettleMetric: abre la fuente para ver el método
02
Lo que te cuesta al mes
Una estimación para planificar: alquiler de oferta real más una cesta de coste de vida ajustada a tu hogar. No es un presupuesto en firme.
Hogar
Estilo de vida
Zona
Total estimado
$2194/mes
≈ $26.328 / año
En qué se va
- Alquiler (1 dorm.)$1100
- Food & non-alcoholic beverages$281
- Housing (water, energy, maintenance — excl. rent)$160
- Transport$157
- Restaurants & accommodation$85
- Other goods & services (personal care, social protection, misc.)$71
- Furnishings & household equipment$61
- Health (out-of-pocket)$61
- Recreation, sport & culture$55
- Clothing & footwear$54
- Insurance & financial services$39
- Information & communication$38
- Alcoholic beverages & tobacco$23
- Education$9
- Gastos corrientes$1094
El alquiler sale de la matriz de alquileres de oferta de abajo. Los gastos corrientes escalan una cesta de una persona ($1094/mes) según el tamaño del hogar y el estilo de vida; los factores de equivalencia son un supuesto nuestro. No se incluyen colegios ni gastos únicos de instalación.
03
Coste de vida
Lo que gasta al mes una persona sola —comida, suministros, transporte, comer fuera y lo demás—, sin contar el alquiler.
ISTAT — Spese per consumi delle famiglie, Anno 2024 (Prospetto 4, divisioni di spesa)
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2024
- Verificado
- 28 jul 2026
- Método
- Each ISTAT 2024 spending division for all households, divided by the average household size 2.2, uplifted ×1.0164 (HICP 2024→2025) and converted at 1.1399 USD/EUR. The housing line is shown net of both imputed rent (€617.39/household) and actual rentals (€63.08, from the 2.951% HICP weight), leaving water, energy, maintenance and condominium charges. Items sum to $1,094 against the $1,093 headline; the €1 gap is rounding.
- Notas
- Food is the largest single line at a quarter of the basket — a high share for Western Europe, and one reason Italy's overall cost sits below France and Austria despite comparable incomes. Health is out-of-pocket only: the Servizio Sanitario Nazionale covers residents, with co-payments (ticket) and private consultations making up this line.
01Food & non-alcoholic beverages281 USD
02Housing (water, energy, maintenance — excl. rent)160 USD
03Transport157 USD
04Restaurants & accommodation85 USD
05Other goods & services (personal care, social protection, misc.)71 USD
06Furnishings & household equipment61 USD
07Health (out-of-pocket)61 USD
08Recreation, sport & culture55 USD
09Clothing & footwear54 USD
10Insurance & financial services39 USD
11Information & communication38 USD
12Alcoholic beverages & tobacco23 USD
13Education9 USD
Cesta de gasto de un hogar de una persona en Italy, sin contar el alquiler. Lo que no es alquiler varía poco entre ciudades; la parte propia de cada ciudad es el alquiler, que aparece más abajo en Vivienda.
01Cost of living (single, excl. rent)a nivel de país1093USD/month, single person, excluding rent7.2
Qué mide esto
Monthly cost of a defined single-person basket (food, transport, utilities, mobile+internet, modest leisure) excluding rent, curated from national statistics office price data and large local retailers' published prices, converted to USD at the ECB rate recorded in fx-rates. The method field of each value itemizes the basket inputs.
Cuanto más bajo, mejorUSD/month, single person, excluding rentse vuelve a verificar cada 365 días
Recopilado por SettleMetric
ISTAT — Spese per consumi delle famiglie, Anno 2024 (Prospetto 4, tavole allegate)
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2024
- Verificado
- 28 jul 2026
- Método
- ISTAT household budget survey 2024: average monthly household spending €2,755.09, of which imputed rent (affitti figurativi) €617.39 → monetary spending €2,137.70. Actual rentals removed using Italy's 2025 HICP weight for COICOP 04.1 (29.51 per 1,000 = 2.951%, Eurostat prc_hicp_inw) = €63.08 → €2,074.62 excluding all rent. Divided by the average household size of 2.2 (Eurostat ilc_lvph01) = €943.01 per person per month; uplifted by HICP annual averages 2024→2025 (122.3 → 124.3, ×1.0164) = €958.43; converted at 1 EUR = 1.1399 USD (ECB, 2026-07-02) → $1,093.
- Notas
- Per-capita basis, to match how Spain, Czechia, Austria and France are computed in this dataset. ISTAT also publishes the real single-person household basket, which is what a solo mover actually faces: €1,931.70/month total, €1,347.48 after removing imputed and actual rent — about $1,561/month on the same uplift and FX. A person living alone has no household economies of scale, so read the $1,093 as the comparable cross-country figure and the $1,561 as the realistic personal one. No extrapolation into 2026 was applied beyond the 2025 annual average.
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Vivienda
Lo que cuesta alquilar, por tipo de vivienda y zona.
Immobiliare.it — Mercato immobiliare Milano, canoni di locazione richiesti per zona (giugno 2026)
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 30 jun 2026
- Verificado
- 28 jul 2026
- Método
- Two per-m² rates derived from the 32 zone quotations of June 2026: central = mean of the priciest quartile (8 zones) = €26.71/m²; outside the centre = mean of the cheapest quartile (8 zones, Bisceglie/Baggio to Affori/Bovisa) = €17.54/m². Applied to assumed floor areas — studio 35 m², 1BR 55 m², 2BR 80 m², 3BR 110 m² — and converted at 1 EUR = 1.1399 USD (ECB, 2026-07-02).
- Notas
- Milan's centre-to-periphery spread is only 1.5×, much flatter than Rome's 1.8×: even the cheapest quarter of Milan costs more per square metre than the average Roman zone, which is what makes the city expensive across the board rather than just in the centre.
| Vivienda | Centro | Fuera del centro |
|---|---|---|
| Estudio | 1066 USD/mes | 700 USD/mes |
| 1 dormitorio | 1675 USD/mes | 1100 USD/mes |
| 2 dormitorios | 2436 USD/mes | 1599 USD/mes |
| 3 dormitorios | 3349 USD/mes | 2199 USD/mes |
05
Clima
Temperatura y lluvia a lo largo del año, más la calidad del aire.
NOAA/WMO Climatological Standard Normals 1991–2020 — Milano Linate (WMO 16080)
Datos abiertos
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2020
- Verificado
- 28 jul 2026
- Notas
- Linate, the in-city airport, rather than Malpensa 50km away, whose 1991–2020 precipitation series also has gaps. A continental Po Valley climate, not a Mediterranean one: freezing January nights, 30°C July afternoons, and the winter fog and stagnant air that drive the city's PM2.5 problem.
Temperatura media de día y de noche (líneas, eje izquierdo) y lluvia total (barras, eje derecho) por mes, con normales de 1991–2020. Pasa el cursor por un mes para ver las cifras exactas.
| ene | feb | mar | abr | may | jun | jul | ago | sept | oct | nov | dic | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Máxima diurna °C | 7.3° | 10.2° | 15.5° | 19.3° | 23.9° | 28.1° | 30.7° | 29.9° | 25.5° | 18.9° | 12.4° | 7.5° |
| Mínima nocturna °C | -0.4° | 0.6° | 4.4° | 8.4° | 12.8° | 17.2° | 19.3° | 18.8° | 14.9° | 10.2° | 5.2° | 0.6° |
| Lluvia mm | 37 | 38 | 42 | 58 | 70 | 67 | 44 | 59 | 74 | 82 | 104 | 46 |
01Climate comfort5pleasant months/year5.0
Qué mide esto
Number of months whose 1991–2020 climate normals satisfy: mean daily maximum between 15°C and 28°C and monthly precipitation under 150mm. Computed from the city's climate-normals indicator; the raw normals are stored alongside so users can judge by their own taste.
Cuanto más alto, mejorpleasant months/yearse vuelve a verificar cada 3650 días
Recopilado por SettleMetric
SettleMetric — computed from the Milano Linate 1991–2020 WMO normals
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2020
- Verificado
- 28 jul 2026
- Método
- Months whose 1991–2020 normals have a mean daily maximum of 15–28°C and under 150mm of precipitation: March, April, May, June, September = 5. July and August exceed 28°C; October to February stay below 15°C.
02Air quality (PM2.5)19µg/m³, annual mean PM2.54.4
Qué mide esto
Annual mean fine-particulate (PM2.5) concentration for the city, latest available year. Anchors follow the WHO 2021 guideline (5 µg/m³ → 10) through the EU limit value territory (25 µg/m³ → 2). Preferred source: European Environment Agency city-level air quality data; outside Europe: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database or the national monitoring network.
Cuanto más bajo, mejorµg/m³, annual mean PM2.5se vuelve a verificar cada 730 días
Datos abiertos
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2024
- Verificado
- 28 jul 2026
- Notas
- Annual mean of 19.0 µg/m³ across five verified monitoring stations in 2024 — 3.8× the WHO guideline of 5 µg/m³ and among the worst readings in Western Europe, though still under the EU's current 25 µg/m³ limit value. The cause is geography as much as traffic: the Po Valley is ringed by the Alps and Apennines, so winter inversions trap particulate matter for weeks. The EU's 2030 target is 10 µg/m³.
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Seguridad
Cómo de segura es la vida diaria, según estadísticas oficiales de criminalidad.
01Homicide ratea nivel de país0,6intentional homicides per 100,000/year9.9
Qué mide esto
Intentional homicide victims per 100,000 population, latest available year. Country level: UNODC national series. City level: official municipal/police statistics where published; otherwise null (country value shown as country-level).
Cuanto más bajo, mejorintentional homicides per 100,000/yearse vuelve a verificar cada 730 días
Datos abiertos
Eurostat — police-recorded intentional homicide (crim_off_cat, ICCS0101, unit P_HTHAB)
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2024
- Verificado
- 28 jul 2026
- Notas
- Police-recorded intentional homicide, 2024 (2023 was also 0.57). Dataset last updated by Eurostat 2026-04-29. Among the safest large countries in Europe — roughly half the French rate and a fifth of the global average — and down from 1.05 in 2008.
Eurostat — police-recorded offences by category (crim_off_cat, ICCS, unit P_HTHAB)
Datos abiertos
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2024
- Verificado
- 28 jul 2026
- Notas
- ICCS categories: theft 0502, burglary of private residential premises 05012, drug offences 0601, robbery 0401, sexual violence 0301, serious assault 020111. Italy's profile is the mirror image of its low homicide rate: property crime is high (theft above 1,550 per 100k, concentrated in tourist cities) while violent offences are low — serious assault is recorded at 2.04 per 100k, but Italy defines that category far more narrowly than France or Poland do, so cross-country comparison of that line is meaningless. Fraud, not shown here, was recorded at 732.67 per 100k.
01Theft1552por 100 000
02Burglary264por 100 000
03Drug offences54por 100 000
04Robbery49,8por 100 000
05Sexual violence12,6por 100 000
06Serious assault2por 100 000
ICCS categories: theft 0502, burglary of private residential premises 05012, drug offences 0601, robbery 0401, sexual violence 0301, serious assault 020111. Italy's profile is the mirror image of its low homicide rate: property crime is high (theft above 1,550 per 100k, concentrated in tourist cities) while violent offences are low — serious assault is recorded at 2.04 per 100k, but Italy defines that category far more narrowly than France or Poland do, so cross-country comparison of that line is meaningless. Fraud, not shown here, was recorded at 732.67 per 100k.
OSCE ODIHR Hate Crime Reporting — Italy (official police-recorded)
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2024
- Verificado
- 28 jul 2026
- Notas
- OSCE ODIHR 2024: 893 alleged criminal offences recorded as hate crimes, drawn from the police database (SDI) and OSCAD, the interior ministry's observatory on discrimination. Italy does not break out a racist/xenophobic subtotal in the data it submits, so that field is left empty rather than guessed. Counts are not comparable across countries — a higher number often reflects better recording, and Italy's total is far below France's 6,096 largely because of how bias motivation is flagged and how willing victims are to report.
893
registrados por la policía
OSCE ODIHR 2024: 893 alleged criminal offences recorded as hate crimes, drawn from the police database (SDI) and OSCAD, the interior ministry's observatory on discrimination. Italy does not break out a racist/xenophobic subtotal in the data it submits, so that field is left empty rather than guessed. Counts are not comparable across countries — a higher number often reflects better recording, and Italy's total is far below France's 6,096 largely because of how bias motivation is flagged and how willing victims are to report.
07
Infraestructura
Velocidad de internet y cómo llegan los paquetes a tu puerta.
01Domestic delivery qualitya nivel de paísGood7.0
Qué mide esto
Quality of in-country parcel delivery. excellent = nationwide next-day widely available, dense parcel-locker network, real-time tracking standard; good = 1–3 day delivery, lockers in major cities; basic = reliable but slow (3–7 days), mostly to-door or post-office pickup; poor = unreliable delivery, street addresses often unusable, informal workarounds common. Classified from official service/coverage data of the national postal operator and the two largest private carriers; inputs itemized in each value's method field.
Valorado por categoría—se vuelve a verificar cada 730 días
Recopilado por SettleMetric
Poste Italiane — Rete Punto Poste (punti di ritiro e Locker)
- Datos a fecha de
- 28 jul 2026
- Verificado
- 28 jul 2026
- Método
- Poste Italiane's Punto Poste network lists over 18,000 pickup points and lockers, and more than 30,000 proximity points counting post offices, alongside private networks — BRT, GLS, SDA, DHL, UPS and InPost Italia. Home delivery is nationwide with next-day options in the north and centre. Rated 'good' rather than 'excellent': locker density is far below Poland's or France's (Poste's own locker estate is in the low thousands, against ~26,000 InPost lockers in Poland), and delivery reliability is noticeably weaker in the south and on the islands.
- Notas
- Cash on delivery (contrassegno) is still a mainstream consumer option in Italy, unlike in France — a legacy of lower card penetration that remains useful for anyone without an Italian bank card yet.
02International delivery easea nivel de paísMinor friction7.0
Qué mide esto
Ease of receiving goods from abroad. seamless = major international carriers deliver door-to-door, meaningful duty-free de-minimis threshold, customs clearance predictable in days; minor-friction = carriers present but low de-minimis, extra paperwork or routine delays; significant-friction = frequent customs holds, high brokerage fees, some marketplaces refuse to ship; unreliable = parcels regularly lost or blocked, informal import channels dominate. De-minimis thresholds and clearance rules from the national customs authority (official source, cite the regulation); carrier presence from carriers' official pages.
Valorado por categoría—se vuelve a verificar cada 365 días
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 jul 2026
- Verificado
- 28 jul 2026
- Notas
- Intra-EU shipping is frictionless under the single market — a parcel from Germany or Spain arrives like a domestic one. For non-EU imports the EU removed the €150 duty-free threshold and from 1 July 2026 applies a temporary flat customs duty per item on consignments up to €150, with VAT already collected at checkout through IOSS. The same EU-wide regime as every member state; Italian customs handling of non-EU parcels is slower than northern Europe's, which is the 'minor friction' in practice.
03Internet speeda nivel de país27,4Mbps, median fixed download2.2
Qué mide esto
Median fixed-broadband download speed over the trailing 6 months from M-Lab NDT open data (CC0), aggregated at country or city level. Not comparable with Ookla figures (different test methodology) — do not mix sources within this criterion.
Cuanto más alto, mejorMbps, median fixed downloadse vuelve a verificar cada 365 días
Datos abiertos
M-Lab NDT country aggregates for Italy
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2023
- Verificado
- 28 jul 2026
- Método
- Median of the 344 daily country-median download values for IT in 2023 (17.42M download tests; daily medians ranged 8.6–29.9 Mbps). M-Lab NDT is single-stream and reads well below advertised or Ookla-style figures — comparable only within this criterion. 2023 is the latest full year in M-Lab's public stats API.
- Notas
- Low by Western European standards on this metric: Italy's copper legacy is long and FTTH rollout, while accelerating under the national broadband plan, still lags France and Spain. Fibre is available in the three modelled cities; rural and southern coverage is where the national median is lost.
08
Sanidad
Lo que cuesta un seguro médico privado completo.
01Private healthcare costa nivel de paíssin datos verificados—
Qué mide esto
Median of at least three publicly quoted annual premiums for comprehensive private medical insurance (outpatient + inpatient, ~$100k coverage, small deductible) for a healthy 35-year-old resident foreigner, from local and international insurers. Method field lists the insurers quoted.
Cuanto más bajo, mejorUSD/year, comprehensive private insurance premium, healthy 35-year-oldse vuelve a verificar cada 365 días
No verified premium. Italian insurers do not publish individual health-policy tariffs the way French mutuelle comparators do, and the figures circulating on broker blogs (roughly €300–500 a year for a basic individual policy at 35) are not traceable to a named tariff table, so they are not recorded here. What is certain is the structure: residents — including foreigners with a residence permit — enrol in the Servizio Sanitario Nazionale, which covers GP care, hospital treatment and subsidised specialist care against a co-payment (ticket). Private policies in Italy are supplementary, bought mainly to skip public waiting lists, not a replacement. Non-residents on a digital-nomad or elective-residence visa must instead hold private travel/health insurance for the visa itself.
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Dinero y cripto
Normas sobre cripto y con qué libertad se mueve el dinero personal.
01Crypto regulationa nivel de paísLegal regulated8.0
Qué mide esto
Own classification of the legal status of holding, trading and cashing out cryptocurrency for individuals: legal-friendly (legal with clear, favourable rules or explicit tax exemptions), legal-regulated (legal under standard licensing/AML and taxation), restricted (partial bans: payments or banking access prohibited), banned (holding/trading prohibited). Classified from national regulators' and central banks' official positions.
Valorado por categoría—se vuelve a verificar cada 180 días
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 ene 2026
- Verificado
- 28 jul 2026
- Notas
- Legal and fully regulated, but taxed harder than most of Europe from 2026: the substitute tax on crypto capital gains (art. 67(1)(c-sexies) TUIR) rose from 26% to 33% on gains realised from 1 January 2026, and the previous €2,000 annual exemption threshold was abolished from 2025 — so the first euro of gain is taxable. Euro-denominated e-money tokens stay at 26%. Service providers operate under the EU MiCA regime, supervised by CONSOB and the Bank of Italy. Note that the regime forfettario's substitute tax does not cover capital gains: crypto is declared separately in quadro RT whatever your business regime.
02Financial control levela nivel de paísLow10.0
Qué mide esto
Own composite of state control over personal money flows: currency/capital controls (IMF AREAER), restrictions on foreign accounts and transfers, mandatory income declaration scope for residents, cash payment limits, banking access for foreigners. Low = free movement of personal funds and easy non-resident banking; very-high = strict capital controls and pervasive reporting. Method field on each value lists the inputs used.
Valorado por categoría—se vuelve a verificar cada 365 días
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 ene 2023
- Verificado
- 28 jul 2026
- Método
- Composite: Italy uses the euro, with EU free movement of capital and no exchange or capital controls. The binding constraints are ordinary anti-money-laundering rules — a ceiling on cash transfers between parties (art. 49 of D.Lgs. 231/2007), a reporting duty on large cash tourism sales, and the RW section of the tax return, in which residents must declare foreign accounts and assets including crypto. Non-resident banking is available with standard KYC. None of this restricts moving your own money, so the classification is 'low', the same as France and Spain.
- Notas
- Two official sources disagree on the general cash ceiling and we flag rather than hide it: the 2023 Budget Law (law 197/2022) raised it from €1,000 to €5,000 from 1 January 2023, and this Agenzia delle Entrate page tracks that by setting the tourism cash-sale reporting threshold at €5,000 ('previously €1,000 until 2025'), while the Treasury's own prevention-of-financial-crime FAQ still displays €1,000 as the limit in force since 2022. Either figure lands Italy in the same band. Worth knowing separately: Italy's declaration duty for foreign-held assets is broad, and penalties for undeclared foreign accounts are real.
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Idioma
Hasta dónde llega el inglés en la vida diaria y en los trámites.
01English proficiencya nivel de paísModerate5.0
Qué mide esto
Own banding of how far English gets a resident in daily life (government offices, healthcare, housing, services). Informed by EF EPI band (research source, cited with attribution, not republished) plus official language status and service-sector realities. Values are our bands, not EF scores.
Valorado por categoría—se vuelve a verificar cada 730 días
Estudio
EF EPI 2025 — Italy (score 513, rank 59/123, Moderate band)
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 nov 2025
- Verificado
- 28 jul 2026
- Notas
- Own band informed by EF EPI 2025 (attribution: EF Education First): Italy score 513, global rank 59, 'Moderate' band (EF cutoffs: Moderate 500–549), down 15 points on the previous edition. Reading scores highest (534) and speaking lowest (417), which matches the lived experience: written and technical English is workable in Milan's professional world, but Italian is required for administration, healthcare and most daily life, and proficiency falls sharply from north to south.
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Educación
Opciones de colegios internacionales para familias.
01International schools26accredited international schools, count10.0
Qué mide esto
Count of international schools in the metro area accredited by or member of IB, CIS, COBIS, or an equivalent national-curriculum-abroad body (verified against the accreditor's public registry, not aggregator sites).
Cuanto más alto, mejoraccredited international schools, countse vuelve a verificar cada 730 días
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 ago 2026
- Verificado
- 1 ago 2026
- Método
- Count of the distinct school entries listed for Milan and its immediate surroundings (including Monza), each carrying a published curriculum record; the same directory was used for Athens elsewhere in this dataset. Recognised systems confirmed present in the listing: IB (American School of Milan, International School of Milan, The British School of Milan, Canadian School of Milan, St. Louis School, Bilingual European School, International School of Monza), French AEFE (Lycée Stendhal), German (Deutsche Schule Mailand), Swiss (Schweizer Schule Rahn Education, SIS Swiss International School), Japanese (Japanese School in Milan) and a British-curriculum group.
- Notas
- A directory count rather than a strict accreditor-by-accreditor tally — the IB registry answers automated requests with a bot challenge we do not bypass, Cambridge renders its finder client-side, and Italy has no consolidated national register of authorised foreign schools. The basis is slightly broader than a pure accreditation count, so small differences against cities counted per accreditor are method noise. Milan matches Rome's provision on a city a third the size, which is what the corporate expat population buys.
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Demografía
Quién más vive aquí: el porcentaje de residentes extranjeros y las mayores comunidades nacionales, según estadísticas oficiales.
Openness to foreignersa nivel de paísAbiertaGallup MAI 6,49/9 · 2016
Qué mide esto
How accepting the resident population is of migrants and foreigners — the inverse of xenophobia, a real concern for someone relocating. Our own five-band reading (very-open / open / moderate / reserved / low) informed primarily by the Gallup Migrant Acceptance Index (0–9 scale: three questions on migrants living in the country, becoming neighbours, and marrying into the family; 2019 wave), cross-checked where available with the World Values Survey wave 7 / European Values Study 2017 question on whether people would not want immigrants or foreign workers as neighbours (a higher share = more hostile). Banding guide against the Gallup 0–9 score: ≥7.0 very-open, 5.5–7.0 open, 4.0–5.5 moderate, 2.5–4.0 reserved, below 2.5 low (the 2019 global average of 5.21 sits in 'moderate'). Country level only: no credible city-level survey of attitudes to foreigners exists, so on city pages the country reading is shown as country context. Gallup is a research source cited with attribution, not republished in bulk; the raw index score/year and any cross-check figure are carried inside each value. Value shape: { band, gallupMai?, gallupYear?, unwantedNeighborPct?, unwantedNeighborSource? }. Display-only: attitudinal, survey-based and ~2019 vintage, so it is shown as honest context and never folded into the composite score.
Datos de referencia—se vuelve a verificar cada 1825 días
Estudio
- Datos a fecha de
- 23 ago 2017
- Verificado
- 28 jul 2026
- Notas
- Gallup MAI 6.49/9 (2016/2017 wave), well above the global average of 5.29 and just ahead of France (6.46) — a result that sits oddly against Italy's loud political debate on immigration, and a reminder that the index measures personal acceptance (migrants as neighbours, family) rather than support for immigration policy. Vintage 2019 or earlier: honest context, never scored.
Eurostat — Population on 1 January by age, sex and citizenship (migr_pop1ctz), Italy
Datos abiertos
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 ene 2025
- Verificado
- 28 jul 2026
- Notas
- 5,371,251 foreign nationals and stateless residents out of 58,943,464 people on 1 January 2025 = 9.1%. Of those, 1.37 million hold another EU citizenship and 4.0 million are non-EU. The share understates settled diversity: Italy naturalises tens of thousands of residents a year, and their children born in Italy are counted as Italian.
Mayores comunidades de los residentes extranjeros5.371.251 total
Eurostat — Population on 1 January by citizenship (migr_pop1ctz), Italy
Datos abiertos
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 ene 2025
- Verificado
- 28 jul 2026
- Notas
- Counts are Eurostat's as published; shares are those counts over the 5,371,251 foreign residents. These ten citizenships account for about 63% of all foreign nationals. Romanians alone are almost a fifth — a legacy of free movement after 2007 — and the Ukrainian figure includes those under temporary protection.
01Romania19,6%1.053.042
02Albania7,7%414.622
03Morocco7,7%412.457
04China5,8%311.250
05Ukraine5,3%287.187
06Bangladesh4%213.622
07Egypt3,2%174.141
08India3,2%171.429
09Pakistan3,2%171.179
10Philippines2,9%153.455
Counts are Eurostat's as published; shares are those counts over the 5,371,251 foreign residents. These ten citizenships account for about 63% of all foreign nationals. Romanians alone are almost a fifth — a legacy of free movement after 2007 — and the Ukrainian figure includes those under temporary protection.
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Cómo puedes quedarte
Cómo puedes entrar y quedarte legalmente. Se aplican en todo Italy.
Todos los requisitos y filtro por nacionalidad- 01Digital nomad and remote worker visa (nomadi digitali e lavoratori da remoto)Visado de nómada digitalTodas salvo EU citizensingresos ≥ 28.000 EUR/yearHighly qualified work carried out remotely — self-employed (nomade digitale) or as an employee/collaborator of a company that may be based outside Italy (lavoratore da remoto)1 año +→ vía a la residencia permanente
- 02Self-employment visa (lavoro autonomo) — inside the decreto flussi quotaPermiso para autónomosTodas salvo EU citizensA place inside the annual decreto flussi quota — for 2026 the whole country has 650 self-employment entries, against 76,200 for non-seasonal employment and 88,000 seasonal2 años +→ vía a la residencia permanente
- 03Elective residence visa (residenza elettiva)Residencia temporalTodas salvo EU citizensingresos ≥ 31.000 EUR/yearSubstantial and stable passive income — pension, annuity, income from property or from stable economic and commercial activities1 año +→ vía a la residencia permanente
- 04EU/EEA/Swiss freedom of movement — registration with the comuneEstancia sin visadoEU citizensingresos ≥ 5062 EUR/yearThe first three months need no formality at all beyond a valid identity document3 meses +→ vía a la residencia permanente
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Lo que pagarías en impuestos
Los regímenes fiscales entre los que puede elegir un autónomo. Las normas son nacionales: las mismas en todo Italy.
Regímenes completos y calculadora- 01Regime forfettario — IT and other services (67% coefficient)33% of revenue + 26.1% of revenue (max 31,882/year)24.9%de carga con 60 000 €
- 02Regime forfettario — professional and technical activities (78% coefficient)22% of revenue + 26.1% of revenue (max 31,882/year)29.0%de carga con 60 000 €
- 03Impatriati regime — 50% income exemption for new residents50% of profit + 26.1% of revenue (max 31,882/year)31.6%de carga con 60 000 €
- 04Ordinary self-employment (lavoro autonomo) — IRPEF 23/33/43% + INPS26.1% of profit (max 31,882/year) + progressive on profit: 23% up to 28,000, 33% up to 50,000, 43% above45.8%de carga con 60 000 €
Mira cuánto te quedaría
Tus ingresos frente a los regímenes fiscales reales de Italy, con el mismo motor que la calculadora completa.
- 1 Regime forfettario — IT and other services (67% coefficient)45.062 EURneto/año24.9 % de carga
- 2 Regime forfettario — professional and technical activities (78% coefficient)42.609 EURneto/año29.0 % de carga
- 3 Impatriati regime — 50% income exemption for new residents41.056 EURneto/año31.6 % de carga
- 4 Ordinary self-employment (lavoro autonomo) — IRPEF 23/33/43% + INPS32.520 EURneto/año45.8 % de carga
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¿Para quién es Milan?
El mismo lugar se lee distinto según por qué te mudes. Cada perspectiva reúne los datos que más importan para ese plan, con sus fuentes y las contrapartidas dichas sin rodeos.
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Cost of living (single, excl. rent)$1093/mo
ISTAT — Spese per consumi delle famiglie, Anno 2024 (Prospetto 4, tavole allegate)
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2024
- Verificado
- 28 jul 2026
- Método
- ISTAT household budget survey 2024: average monthly household spending €2,755.09, of which imputed rent (affitti figurativi) €617.39 → monetary spending €2,137.70. Actual rentals removed using Italy's 2025 HICP weight for COICOP 04.1 (29.51 per 1,000 = 2.951%, Eurostat prc_hicp_inw) = €63.08 → €2,074.62 excluding all rent. Divided by the average household size of 2.2 (Eurostat ilc_lvph01) = €943.01 per person per month; uplifted by HICP annual averages 2024→2025 (122.3 → 124.3, ×1.0164) = €958.43; converted at 1 EUR = 1.1399 USD (ECB, 2026-07-02) → $1,093.
- Notas
- Per-capita basis, to match how Spain, Czechia, Austria and France are computed in this dataset. ISTAT also publishes the real single-person household basket, which is what a solo mover actually faces: €1,931.70/month total, €1,347.48 after removing imputed and actual rent — about $1,561/month on the same uplift and FX. A person living alone has no household economies of scale, so read the $1,093 as the comparable cross-country figure and the $1,561 as the realistic personal one. No extrapolation into 2026 was applied beyond the 2025 annual average.
Domestic delivery qualityGood
Poste Italiane — Rete Punto Poste (punti di ritiro e Locker)
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 28 jul 2026
- Verificado
- 28 jul 2026
- Método
- Poste Italiane's Punto Poste network lists over 18,000 pickup points and lockers, and more than 30,000 proximity points counting post offices, alongside private networks — BRT, GLS, SDA, DHL, UPS and InPost Italia. Home delivery is nationwide with next-day options in the north and centre. Rated 'good' rather than 'excellent': locker density is far below Poland's or France's (Poste's own locker estate is in the low thousands, against ~26,000 InPost lockers in Poland), and delivery reliability is noticeably weaker in the south and on the islands.
- Notas
- Cash on delivery (contrassegno) is still a mainstream consumer option in Italy, unlike in France — a legacy of lower card penetration that remains useful for anyone without an Italian bank card yet.
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Freelancer tax burden24,9%
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 ene 2026
- Verificado
- 28 jul 2026
- Método
- Best eligible scheme at €60,000 revenue for an IT freelancer = it-forfettario-it-67. Taxable base 67% × 60,000 = 40,200 (ATECO group 9 coefficient; expenses never reduce the base). INPS Gestione Separata 26.07% = 10,480.14, deducted from the forfeitary income → 29,719.86. Imposta sostitutiva 15% = 4,457.98. Levies 14,938.12 → 24.9%. The first five years of a new activity run at 5% instead (19.9%); the ordinary IRPEF route on the same profile is near 41%.
Internet speed27 Mbps
M-Lab NDT country aggregates for Italy
Datos abiertos
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2023
- Verificado
- 28 jul 2026
- Método
- Median of the 344 daily country-median download values for IT in 2023 (17.42M download tests; daily medians ranged 8.6–29.9 Mbps). M-Lab NDT is single-stream and reads well below advertised or Ookla-style figures — comparable only within this criterion. 2023 is the latest full year in M-Lab's public stats API.
- Notas
- Low by Western European standards on this metric: Italy's copper legacy is long and FTTH rollout, while accelerating under the national broadband plan, still lags France and Spain. Fibre is available in the three modelled cities; rural and southern coverage is where the national median is lost.
English proficiencyModerate
EF EPI 2025 — Italy (score 513, rank 59/123, Moderate band)
Estudio
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 nov 2025
- Verificado
- 28 jul 2026
- Notas
- Own band informed by EF EPI 2025 (attribution: EF Education First): Italy score 513, global rank 59, 'Moderate' band (EF cutoffs: Moderate 500–549), down 15 points on the previous edition. Reading scores highest (534) and speaking lowest (417), which matches the lived experience: written and technical English is workable in Milan's professional world, but Italian is required for administration, healthcare and most daily life, and proficiency falls sharply from north to south.
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International schools26
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 ago 2026
- Verificado
- 1 ago 2026
- Método
- Count of the distinct school entries listed for Milan and its immediate surroundings (including Monza), each carrying a published curriculum record; the same directory was used for Athens elsewhere in this dataset. Recognised systems confirmed present in the listing: IB (American School of Milan, International School of Milan, The British School of Milan, Canadian School of Milan, St. Louis School, Bilingual European School, International School of Monza), French AEFE (Lycée Stendhal), German (Deutsche Schule Mailand), Swiss (Schweizer Schule Rahn Education, SIS Swiss International School), Japanese (Japanese School in Milan) and a British-curriculum group.
- Notas
- A directory count rather than a strict accreditor-by-accreditor tally — the IB registry answers automated requests with a bot challenge we do not bypass, Cambridge renders its finder client-side, and Italy has no consolidated national register of authorised foreign schools. The basis is slightly broader than a pure accreditation count, so small differences against cities counted per accreditor are method noise. Milan matches Rome's provision on a city a third the size, which is what the corporate expat population buys.
Homicide rate0,57/100k
Eurostat — police-recorded intentional homicide (crim_off_cat, ICCS0101, unit P_HTHAB)
Datos abiertos
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2024
- Verificado
- 28 jul 2026
- Notas
- Police-recorded intentional homicide, 2024 (2023 was also 0.57). Dataset last updated by Eurostat 2026-04-29. Among the safest large countries in Europe — roughly half the French rate and a fifth of the global average — and down from 1.05 in 2008.
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Air quality (PM2.5)19 µg/m³
Datos abiertos
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2024
- Verificado
- 28 jul 2026
- Notas
- Annual mean of 19.0 µg/m³ across five verified monitoring stations in 2024 — 3.8× the WHO guideline of 5 µg/m³ and among the worst readings in Western Europe, though still under the EU's current 25 µg/m³ limit value. The cause is geography as much as traffic: the Po Valley is ringed by the Alps and Apennines, so winter inversions trap particulate matter for weeks. The EU's 2030 target is 10 µg/m³.
Private healthcare costsin datos verificados
Ministero della Salute — Servizio Sanitario Nazionale (iscrizione e assistenza)
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 28 jul 2026
- Verificado
- 28 jul 2026
- Notas
- No verified premium. Italian insurers do not publish individual health-policy tariffs the way French mutuelle comparators do, and the figures circulating on broker blogs (roughly €300–500 a year for a basic individual policy at 35) are not traceable to a named tariff table, so they are not recorded here. What is certain is the structure: residents — including foreigners with a residence permit — enrol in the Servizio Sanitario Nazionale, which covers GP care, hospital treatment and subsidised specialist care against a co-payment (ticket). Private policies in Italy are supplementary, bought mainly to skip public waiting lists, not a replacement. Non-residents on a digital-nomad or elective-residence visa must instead hold private travel/health insurance for the visa itself.
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Crypto regulationLegal regulated
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 ene 2026
- Verificado
- 28 jul 2026
- Notas
- Legal and fully regulated, but taxed harder than most of Europe from 2026: the substitute tax on crypto capital gains (art. 67(1)(c-sexies) TUIR) rose from 26% to 33% on gains realised from 1 January 2026, and the previous €2,000 annual exemption threshold was abolished from 2025 — so the first euro of gain is taxable. Euro-denominated e-money tokens stay at 26%. Service providers operate under the EU MiCA regime, supervised by CONSOB and the Bank of Italy. Note that the regime forfettario's substitute tax does not cover capital gains: crypto is declared separately in quadro RT whatever your business regime.
Financial control levelLow
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 ene 2023
- Verificado
- 28 jul 2026
- Método
- Composite: Italy uses the euro, with EU free movement of capital and no exchange or capital controls. The binding constraints are ordinary anti-money-laundering rules — a ceiling on cash transfers between parties (art. 49 of D.Lgs. 231/2007), a reporting duty on large cash tourism sales, and the RW section of the tax return, in which residents must declare foreign accounts and assets including crypto. Non-resident banking is available with standard KYC. None of this restricts moving your own money, so the classification is 'low', the same as France and Spain.
- Notas
- Two official sources disagree on the general cash ceiling and we flag rather than hide it: the 2023 Budget Law (law 197/2022) raised it from €1,000 to €5,000 from 1 January 2023, and this Agenzia delle Entrate page tracks that by setting the tourism cash-sale reporting threshold at €5,000 ('previously €1,000 until 2025'), while the Treasury's own prevention-of-financial-crime FAQ still displays €1,000 as the limit in force since 2022. Either figure lands Italy in the same band. Worth knowing separately: Italy's declaration duty for foreign-held assets is broad, and penalties for undeclared foreign accounts are real.
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Freelancer tax burden24,9%
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 ene 2026
- Verificado
- 28 jul 2026
- Método
- Best eligible scheme at €60,000 revenue for an IT freelancer = it-forfettario-it-67. Taxable base 67% × 60,000 = 40,200 (ATECO group 9 coefficient; expenses never reduce the base). INPS Gestione Separata 26.07% = 10,480.14, deducted from the forfeitary income → 29,719.86. Imposta sostitutiva 15% = 4,457.98. Levies 14,938.12 → 24.9%. The first five years of a new activity run at 5% instead (19.9%); the ordinary IRPEF route on the same profile is near 41%.
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Homicide rate0,57/100k
Eurostat — police-recorded intentional homicide (crim_off_cat, ICCS0101, unit P_HTHAB)
Datos abiertos
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2024
- Verificado
- 28 jul 2026
- Notas
- Police-recorded intentional homicide, 2024 (2023 was also 0.57). Dataset last updated by Eurostat 2026-04-29. Among the safest large countries in Europe — roughly half the French rate and a fifth of the global average — and down from 1.05 in 2008.
Cost of living (single, excl. rent)$1093/mo
ISTAT — Spese per consumi delle famiglie, Anno 2024 (Prospetto 4, tavole allegate)
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2024
- Verificado
- 28 jul 2026
- Método
- ISTAT household budget survey 2024: average monthly household spending €2,755.09, of which imputed rent (affitti figurativi) €617.39 → monetary spending €2,137.70. Actual rentals removed using Italy's 2025 HICP weight for COICOP 04.1 (29.51 per 1,000 = 2.951%, Eurostat prc_hicp_inw) = €63.08 → €2,074.62 excluding all rent. Divided by the average household size of 2.2 (Eurostat ilc_lvph01) = €943.01 per person per month; uplifted by HICP annual averages 2024→2025 (122.3 → 124.3, ×1.0164) = €958.43; converted at 1 EUR = 1.1399 USD (ECB, 2026-07-02) → $1,093.
- Notas
- Per-capita basis, to match how Spain, Czechia, Austria and France are computed in this dataset. ISTAT also publishes the real single-person household basket, which is what a solo mover actually faces: €1,931.70/month total, €1,347.48 after removing imputed and actual rent — about $1,561/month on the same uplift and FX. A person living alone has no household economies of scale, so read the $1,093 as the comparable cross-country figure and the $1,561 as the realistic personal one. No extrapolation into 2026 was applied beyond the 2025 annual average.
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Air quality (PM2.5)19 µg/m³
Datos abiertos
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2024
- Verificado
- 28 jul 2026
- Notas
- Annual mean of 19.0 µg/m³ across five verified monitoring stations in 2024 — 3.8× the WHO guideline of 5 µg/m³ and among the worst readings in Western Europe, though still under the EU's current 25 µg/m³ limit value. The cause is geography as much as traffic: the Po Valley is ringed by the Alps and Apennines, so winter inversions trap particulate matter for weeks. The EU's 2030 target is 10 µg/m³.
Climate comfort5/12 mo
SettleMetric — computed from the Milano Linate 1991–2020 WMO normals
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2020
- Verificado
- 28 jul 2026
- Método
- Months whose 1991–2020 normals have a mean daily maximum of 15–28°C and under 150mm of precipitation: March, April, May, June, September = 5. July and August exceed 28°C; October to February stay below 15°C.
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