Cost of living in Italy: the monthly floor, city by city

Most of what separates one Italian city from another is rent. Renting a 60 m² flat at the median municipal OMI valuation costs €198 a month, and adding the €848 a month the Italian state requires you to show for a residence permit gives a floor of €1,046. Among the 44 cities above 100,000 residents the floor runs from €1,067 in Reggio di Calabria to €1,805 in Milan.

What this number is, and what it is not

It is built from two measurable items and nothing else:

• the OMI rent for a 60 m² flat — the municipal average across the OMI zones, H2 2025, published by the Agenzia delle Entrate;
• €848 a month, which is the €10,179.85 a year the Italian state requires as proof of means. The division by twelve is ours: there is no official monthly figure.

Not included, because we do not measure them: utilities, food, transport, health insurance, school fees and tax. It is a floor — what you cannot spend less than on housing and subsistence — not a budget, and not a lifestyle.

Monthly floor, city by city

Cheapest first. The 80 m² column is the same rent scaled, for a couple or a small family.

Renting outside the big cities

The median Italian municipality rents at €3.30 per m² a month, well under what the same flat costs in any of the cities above. The full list of rent prices municipality by municipality and the cheapest places to buy are separate pages; the map carries all 7,896.

How this is measured

Purchase prices and rents are OMI property valuations published by the Agenzia delle Entrate (Italian Revenue Agency), H2 2025: the midpoint of the published min/max range for standard residential units, averaged over the OMI zones of each municipality. Landslide and flood exposure are ISPRA IdroGEO figures — the share of residents living in a P3+P4 landslide hazard area and in a P3 (high probability) flood area. Population is the ISTAT 2023 census. Prices and exposure are measured per municipality; nothing on this page is measured street by street.

The same data as an open file: CSV of all 7,896 municipalities (CC BY 4.0). Interactive version: map of Italian municipalities.

Score one address, not one town

An average tells you about a municipality. If you are looking at a specific address, Evitalya scores that address on 111 metrics — safety, services, mobility, environment, real estate and natural risk — in English: search an Italian address.

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