Safety, in numbers.
A second home is a house you are not in for most of the year.
The second half of the sentence.
So the crime rate of the town matters more than the view. We put the numbers next to the listing, with the source, and we tell you which streets we would not buy on.
- How the country compares with yours on violent crime, with the source.
- What the specific town looks like, not the national average.
- What this means for insurance, for leaving the house empty, and for renting it out.
With the source and the date.
- Intentional homicides per 100,000 people, Italy
Roughly one tenth of the United States rate.
Source: ISTAT, Le vittime di omicidio, 20230.58 - Intentional homicides per 100,000 people, United States
Source: UNODC via World Bank, 20235.76 - Global Peace Index 2026, Italy
Germany 28th, United Kingdom 39th, France 99th, China 118th, United States 134th. Not the top of the table, and we say so.
Source: Institute for Economics & Peace, Global Peace Index 2026, 202635
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- What this means for the area you are looking at, not the national average.
- What you have to spend, and what it buys where you live today.
- What we can verify for you before you travel.
If Italy is not the right answer for you, we say so on that call.
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Straight answers.
Is Italy one of the safest countries in the world?
Not by the broad indices: the Global Peace Index puts it 35th of 163 in 2026. On the number that matters most for a homeowner, violent crime, it is among the lowest in the West, at about a tenth of the United States rate. We use the second number, and we show you the first.