While Jefferson the punk emu and Mauro Tirannosauro where on a musical rampage (see video from last Friday), Guimarães, Jefferson’s Brazilian cousin, with the pibinko.org think-tank refreshed a topic we have been following for some time…possibly since forever (in fact, pibinko was not born in Italy)…”foreign people” in Italy. To start with: what is the percentage of non-Italians at the municipality level?
As reference data we considered the set from ISTAT (the Italian statistics office) for 2025. The national average is around 11.7% …but we like to see a bit more in detail. Below you also fine the distribution histogram. To make a long story short, yellow and green are places which are a little below or a little above the average. Red, orange, and blue are stronger differences. At the extremes we find: Campione d’Italia (which is a bit of an outlier, since it is a sort of exclave in Switzerland), with almost 60% of “alien residents”, and five municipalities with no foreigners at all.
Let us also remember that administrative boundaries are not necessarily representative of territorial dynamics; nevertheless the municipality-level data are the easiest to retrieve. Also…the eye will detect directly interesting “clusters”. E.g. we immediately noted the blue and green patch in Southern Tuscany (where we are based) …until the next map….arrivederci!
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Closing track
(since while we are writing it is “raining cats and dogs”):