Rate your mayor
Italy’s 109 provincial capitals and their mayors, measured with public data: waste, budgets, services, environment, safety. You pick the indicators and the weights; each term’s score is how much the city changed, net of how much comparable cities changed over the same years.
How it works
The unit of assessment is a mayor’s term. For each indicator the value in the year of taking office is compared with the value in the last full year in office, and the median change of comparable capitals (same population class, same macro-region or all of them) over the same years is subtracted. Net changes are normalised and combined with the weights chosen by the visitor; no indicator is a judgement on the person.
The cities
Agrigento · Alessandria · Ancona · Andria · Aosta · Arezzo · Ascoli Piceno · Asti · Avellino · Bari · Barletta · Belluno · Benevento · Bergamo · Biella · Bologna · Bolzano · Brescia · Brindisi · Cagliari · Caltanissetta · Campobasso · Carbonia · Caserta · Catania · Catanzaro · Chieti · Como · Cosenza · Cremona · Crotone · Cuneo · Enna · Fermo · Ferrara · Firenze · Foggia · Forlì · Frosinone · Genova · Gorizia · Grosseto · Imperia · Isernia · L'Aquila · La Spezia · Latina · Lecce · Lecco · Livorno · Lodi · Lucca · Macerata · Mantova · Massa · Matera · Messina · Milano · Modena · Monza · Napoli · Novara · Nuoro · Oristano · Padova · Palermo · Parma · Pavia · Perugia · Pesaro · Pescara · Piacenza · Pisa · Pistoia · Pordenone · Potenza · Prato · Ragusa · Ravenna · Reggio di Calabria · Reggio nell'Emilia · Rieti · Rimini · Roma · Rovigo · Salerno · Sassari · Savona · Siena · Siracusa · Sondrio · Taranto · Teramo · Terni · Torino · Trani · Trapani · Trento · Treviso · Trieste · Udine · Varese · Venezia · Verbania · Vercelli · Verona · Vibo Valentia · Vicenza · Viterbo.
The indicators
Separate waste collection · Waste produced per resident · Unsorted waste per resident · Share of spending going to salaries · Weight of interest on debt · How much of what it is owed it collects · How much of its budget it actually spends · Spending locked in salaries and debt · Weight of debt repayments · Speed in paying off old bills · Invoices left unpaid at year end · Revenue not yet collected at year end · Investment made through grants to others · Budget surplus (money not spent) · How much local taxes weigh on revenue · City staff under 35 · City staff with a degree · Turnover of city staff · Women among city managers · Investment paid per resident · Share of payments going to investment · Day-to-day spending paid per resident · Revenue collected per resident · Grants obtained for public works (State, Region, EU) · Tax evasion recovered per resident · Debt repaid per resident · Building permit fees collected per resident · Tourist tax collected per resident · Spending on roads, metro and trams per resident · Spending on school and nursery buildings per resident · Spending on museums, theatres and sports facilities · What the city pays for public transport · Social spending paid per resident · Spending on nurseries and school meals per resident · What the city pays for waste collection · Average taxable income · Local income tax surcharge · Public green space per resident · Public transport use (trips per resident) · Public transport supply per resident · Cycle lanes across the territory · Solar power installed in the city · Solar power owned by the city · Cost of the waste service per resident · Cars per 1,000 residents · Hybrid and electric cars per 1,000 residents · Employees per 100 residents · Self-employed and small businesses per 1,000 residents · Crimes reported per 100,000 residents · Thefts reported per 100,000 residents · Nursery places per 100 children (all) · Public nursery places per 100 children · Spending on city-owned social housing per resident · Residents attracted from other cities (net per 1,000) · Arrivals from abroad, net of departures (per 1,000) · Road accidents per 1,000 residents · Road deaths and injuries per 100,000 residents · Days taken to pay suppliers · Delay in payments against the due date · Level of services compared with similar cities · Spending against the standard requirement · Jobs in local businesses per 100 residents · Active businesses in the city per 1,000 residents · Average business size (employees) · Land covered by construction · New land taken each year (hectares per 1,000 residents) · Income inequality (Gini index) · Income going to the richest 10 % · Fine particles in the air (PM10) · Days with too much particulate matter · Nitrogen dioxide in the air (traffic) · Municipal employees per 1,000 residents · Municipal staff working part-time · Days of absence per employee (holidays excluded) · Residents in work · Residents looking for work · Children served by municipal childcare · Residents with a degree · Young people not in work or study · Students’ literacy (INVALSI) · Students’ numeracy (INVALSI) · Taxpayers on very low incomes · Tourist overnight stays per 100 residents · Museum visitors per 100 residents · Municipal social spending per resident.
The sources
ISPRA land consumption · ISPRA waste register · ISPRA waste register (costs) · ISTAT ASIA local units · ISTAT air quality · ISTAT budget indicators · ISTAT early childcare services · ISTAT population balance · ISTAT reported crimes · ISTAT road accidents · ISTAT urban environment · ISTAT “A misura di Comune” · MEF income tax returns · MEF-RGS commercial credits platform · OpenBDAP + ISTAT from 2016 · OpenCivitas (SOSE) standard requirements · RGS annual staff report · SIOPE (cash flows). Data processed on 2026-11-03.