Overall score
Rome is most useful for users weighing cultural depth and walkability against heat, mobility, and infrastructure-renewal needs.
Overall80/100
Affordability70/100
Air quality74/100
Energy76/100
Italy / Southern Europe
Rome City Intelligence
Rome is a historic Mediterranean capital where deep cultural heritage meets a working modern metro and active climate-adaptation work. Rome is a southern europe city of about 4.3M metro in Italy. On the composite city-intelligence score, Rome sits comfortably above the indexed median (80/100).
- Last updated
- 2026-05-07
- Data year
- 2025
- Population
- 4.3M metro
Overall city intelligence
Strong80/100
Strong cultural and walkability profile balanced against mobility and heat pressure.
Cultural depth
Exceptional
Heritage sites and creative life shape daily experience.
Walkability
Very high
Compact historic core supports car-light daily life.
Rome data table
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| Metric | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Overall score | 80/100 | Composite score across major city intelligence modules. |
| Cost of Living | 70/100 | Rome offers moderate affordability for a major European capital, with central rents and tourism shaping price levels in popular districts. |
| Air Quality | 74/100 | Rome's air quality is moderate-to-good with traffic-related pollutants the main focus and EU monitoring providing strong trend visibility. |
| Energy | 76/100 | Rome's energy profile reflects solid Mediterranean solar resource and ongoing national renewable build-out, with building retrofits a focus. |
| Safety | 80/100 | Rome is broadly safe with low violent-crime context and tourist-area pickpocketing the most visible practical concern. |
| Internet Speed | 80/100 | Rome delivers solid fiber broadband and reliable mobile coverage, with national fiber rollout still expanding district by district. |
| Climate Risk | 72/100 | Rome carries moderate climate exposure centered on heat and dry-summer water stress, balanced by EU adaptation framing and city programs. |
| Resilience | 74/100 | Climate adaptation and infrastructure continuity context. |
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Cost of Living in Rome
Rome offers moderate affordability for a major European capital, with central rents and tourism shaping price levels in popular districts.
Air Quality in Rome
Rome's air quality is moderate-to-good with traffic-related pollutants the main focus and EU monitoring providing strong trend visibility.
Energy in Rome
Rome's energy profile reflects solid Mediterranean solar resource and ongoing national renewable build-out, with building retrofits a focus.
Safety in Rome
Rome is broadly safe with low violent-crime context and tourist-area pickpocketing the most visible practical concern.
Internet Speed in Rome
Rome delivers solid fiber broadband and reliable mobile coverage, with national fiber rollout still expanding district by district.
Climate Risk in Rome
Rome carries moderate climate exposure centered on heat and dry-summer water stress, balanced by EU adaptation framing and city programs.
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Interpretation
Rome is most useful for users weighing cultural depth and walkability against heat, mobility, and infrastructure-renewal needs. Its standout dimensions are safety (80/100) and internet speed (80/100). The area most worth watching is cost of living (70/100), where the model registers practical gaps. Data year 2025; last updated 2026-05-07. Drawn from 5 institutional references.
Country context is available on the Italy country page. Related rankings include Overall Intelligence, Quality of Life, Remote Work. See where Rome appears in global rankings or read the scoring methodology.
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Sources
5 institutional references inform this view, listed below with reliability notes. Mock values are typed and ready to be replaced by API-backed city datasets without changing route structure.
- UN-Habitat: World Cities Report 2024
Used as a policy and methodology reference for urban exposure and resilience signals.
- World Health Organization: WHO Global Air Quality Guidelines
Used to normalize air-quality indicators toward health-protective benchmarks.
- NASA: NASA POWER
Used as an energy-resource and weather-normalization reference.
- European Environment Agency: Air Quality Status Report
Used where European city comparisons need monitored air-quality context.
- IPCC: AR6 WGII Chapter 6: Cities, settlements and key infrastructure
Used to explain urban climate vulnerability and adaptation scoring logic.