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Safety in Rome, Italy

Rome, Italy local scene.
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Rome safety and resilience

Read Rome through the street, the traffic, and the hazard plan

Rome's composite safety, violent-crime, and property-crime rows are not available in the current catalog. Roma Capitale records 126,498 thefts in 2023, 18,640 cybercrime, fraud, and computer-fraud offenses, and 13,924 road crashes in 2024. The road record includes 134 deaths and 17,196 injuries. These figures warrant attention without turning a citywide record into a judgment about one neighborhood.

The municipality's risk plan includes floods and intense rainfall, landslides, wildfire, earthquakes, snow and ice, heat waves, subsidence, and underground cavities. The Lazio 112 system is free and available 24 hours a day, with multilingual coordination for police, fire, and medical response. The home decision should add lighting, entries, stairs, crossings, traffic, heat, drainage, power, and the route after dark.

The safety picture

Start with the overall picture, then look at the details that matter for daily life.

Day to day confidence

Nighttime comfort, response, scams, stability, and solo living add practical context.

Modeled 100-Year Flood Exposure
6.7% of nearby area
Roma Province/Metropolitan Context — Intentional Homicide Reports per 100,000 (2023)
0.6
Roma Province/Metropolitan Context — Other Fatal Crime Reports per 100,000 (2023)
3.5
Roma Province/Metropolitan Context — Residential Burglary Reports per 100,000 (2023)
318.4
Roma Province/Metropolitan Context — Pickpocketing Reports per 100,000 (2023)
754.5
Roma Province/Metropolitan Context — Robbery Reports per 100,000 (2023)
71.3
National Intentional Homicide Rate
0.6 per 100,000

Rome in everyday life

Could Rome work for you?

What may work well

  • Rome publishes a detailed municipal hazard plan and civil-protection resources.
  • The Lazio 112 system is free, continuous, and designed to coordinate police, fire, and medical services.
  • Named citywide crime and road records give a household concrete questions for neighborhood visits.

What to think about

  • The current composite safety score is not available, and citywide records do not decide personal risk.
  • Traffic, uneven routes, stairs, crowding, heat, flooding, and property entry can matter more than a citywide label.
  • Hazard planning helps, but the home still needs address-level drainage, cooling, access, and power preparation.

Turn Rome's safety information into a home check

  1. Walk day and night

    Repeat the routes to transit, groceries, pharmacy, care, and the property entrance in daylight and after dark. Check lighting, traffic, stairs, curb cuts, locks, and activity.

  2. Read the exact hazard maps

    Review flooding, heavy rain, heat, wildfire, earthquake, snow, ice, subsidence, and underground-cavity information for the address and route.

  3. Prepare for service disruption

    Keep medicines, water, phone power, cooling or heating, emergency contacts, transport alternatives, and a safe indoor space ready for heat, storms, or outages.

  4. Use the 112 plan

    Learn the free 112 service, the household's preferred hospital, the property access details, the language support needed, and the route responders would use.

Questions retirees ask

Is Rome safe for retirement?

The current catalog does not publish a composite safety score, and a citywide answer would be too broad. Review the actual street, lighting, traffic, property entry, theft concerns, emergency routes, and hazard exposure for the home.

What safety figures are available?

Roma Capitale records 126,498 thefts in 2023, 18,640 cybercrime, fraud, and computer-fraud offenses, and 13,924 road crashes in 2024. These are citywide records, not a personal risk grade or neighborhood ranking.

Which hazards should a Rome household review?

The municipal plan identifies flooding, intense rain, landslides, wildfire, earthquakes, snow and ice, heat waves, subsidence, and underground cavities. Use address-level information and inspect drainage, cooling, access, and power.

What is the emergency number?

Lazio's official information identifies 112 as a free, continuous emergency number that can coordinate police, fire, and medical response. Confirm property access and the preferred hospital before an emergency occurs.

Rome's safety decision is made at street level, with the city's civil-protection plan as a useful foundation. Visit after dark, cross the roads you would use, review the exact hazards, and choose a home that remains manageable during heat, rain, traffic, and service disruption.

Sources

Safety depends on the neighborhood, the places you go each day, transportation, and personal comfort.

Use official local sources and recent neighborhood-level context before choosing where to stay, rent, or buy.

Not yet available for this place: Overall Safety, Violent Crime, Property Crime.

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