NUTS 3 areas of Italy by active enterprises, 2023

Roma had the highest active enterprises of 107 areas in 2023, at 368,840. Isernia had the lowest, at 6,377. The median was 27,634 and the figure for Italy was 4.62 million. Source: Eurostat, European Commission.

Highest368,840Roma

Lowest6,377Isernia

Median27,634107 areas

Italy4,616,886History

Top 40 areas, 2023

count. Source: Eurostat, Business demography by size class and NUTS 3 region, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, enterprises, number (bd_size_r). Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	Areas	2023 count	Change on 2022
1	Roma	368,840	+0.9%
2	Milano	336,627	+1.7%
3	Napoli	197,640	+1.6%
4	Torino	181,259	+0.8%
5	Brescia	106,264	+1.4%
6	Firenze	95,086	+0.8%
7	Bologna	90,415	+0.9%
8	Bari	89,565	+0.5%
9	Bergamo	88,074	+1%
10	Padova	84,949	+0.9%
11	Salerno	79,751	+1%
12	Verona	78,377	+1.5%
13	Monza e della Brianza	73,136	-0.2%
14	Treviso	72,095	+1.2%
15	Vicenza	70,874	+0.8%
16	Palermo	69,396	+1.3%
17	Genova	68,706	+0.3%
18	Catania	68,454	+0.9%
19	Venezia	67,239	+1.5%
20	Varese	66,562	+1.3%
21	Modena	59,441	+0.6%
22	Lecce	59,163	+0.7%
23	Caserta	54,056	+0.6%
24	Perugia	52,280	+1%
25	Cuneo	47,245	+0.4%
26	Bolzano-Bozen	46,847	+1.3%
27	Como	46,449	+1.2%
28	Cosenza	43,698	+0.9%
29	Trento	42,621	+2.1%
30	Reggio nell’Emilia	42,308	+1.1%
31	Messina	40,242	-0.6%
32	Latina	39,490	+0.7%
33	Udine	39,420	+0.9%
34	Pavia	37,947	+0.4%
35	Sassari	37,401	+1.1%
36	Parma	37,211	+0.7%
37	Foggia	36,975	-0.2%
38	Ancona	35,910	+0.1%
39	Pisa	35,662	+0.7%
40	Rimini	35,312	+0.6%
41	Lucca	35,280	+0.5%
42	Cagliari	33,875	+0.3%
43	Forlì-Cesena	33,277	-0.3%
44	Frosinone	32,791	0%
45	Taranto	31,938	+0.7%
46	Pesaro e Urbino	30,636	-0.8%
47	Reggio Calabria	30,301	+0.5%
48	Ravenna	29,711	+0.8%
49	Mantova	29,458	+0.3%
50	Alessandria	29,421	-0.2%
51	Prato	28,730	-0.5%
52	Arezzo	28,233	+0.5%
53	Macerata	27,869	+0.2%
54	Avellino	27,634	+0.4%
55	Pescara	27,508	-0.1%
56	Chieti	27,092	+0.6%
57	Novara	26,362	+0.6%
58	Barletta-Andria-Trani	26,333	+0.5%
59	Lecco	26,253	+1.7%
60	Trapani	25,891	+0.1%
61	Livorno	25,709	+0.1%
62	Pistoia	25,095	0%
63	Brindisi	24,661	+0.9%
64	Teramo	24,566	+0.4%
65	Savona	24,396	+0.5%
66	Potenza	24,172	+0.8%
67	Ferrara	24,017	+0.2%
68	Cremona	23,928	+0.4%
69	Agrigento	23,604	+0.8%
70	Catanzaro	22,953	+0.9%
71	Piacenza	22,627	+1.2%
72	Viterbo	22,588	0%
73	Siena	22,079	+0.7%
74	L’Aquila	22,007	0%
75	Siracusa	21,947	+0.8%
76	Pordenone	21,607	+0.8%
77	Ragusa	21,511	+0.7%
78	Benevento	19,063	+0.6%
79	Ascoli Piceno	17,751	+0.2%
80	Imperia	17,745	+1.3%
81	Grosseto	17,736	+0.2%
82	Sud Sardegna	17,500	-0.1%
83	La Spezia	16,831	+0.5%
84	Terni	16,326	-0.1%
85	Massa-Carrara	16,145	0%
85	Rovigo	16,145	-1%
87	Fermo	15,933	+0.5%
88	Asti	15,775	-0.2%
89	Trieste	15,730	+2.6%
90	Campobasso	15,041	+0.4%
91	Lodi	14,139	+1.3%
92	Belluno	13,965	+0.4%
93	Nuoro	13,711	+0.7%
94	Caltanissetta	13,701	-0%
95	Sondrio	13,522	+0.6%
96	Biella	12,839	-0.2%
97	Matera	12,507	+1.6%
98	Verbano-Cusio-Ossola	11,741	+0.7%
99	Valle d’Aosta/Vallée d’Aoste	11,436	+2%
100	Vercelli	11,364	-0.4%
101	Vibo Valentia	9,617	+1.6%
102	Rieti	9,584	+0.6%
103	Crotone	9,432	+1.8%
104	Oristano	9,315	+0.1%
105	Enna	8,551	-1.3%
106	Gorizia	8,317	+1.2%
107	Isernia	6,377	-0.4%

Other periods

2023
2022
2021

About this ranking

Enterprises that had turnover or employment at any time during the year, with or without employees.

Counts enterprises, which can run several local units, under the harmonised Eurostat and OECD business demography rules. Not the same as active_companies (the INE business register count for Spain) or employer_firms (US firms with employees). For the UK it counts every enterprise active at some point in the year, so it differs from registered_enterprises_total (UK Business Counts), a snapshot of the register in March.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the areas are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.

How to cite

Eurostat. Business demography by size class and NUTS 3 region, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, enterprises, number (bd_size_r). https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size_r/default/table. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

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Eurostat, European Commission. (2026). Business demography by size class and NUTS 3 region, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, enterprises, number (bd_size_r) (NUTS 3 areas of Italy by active enterprises, 2023) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size_r/default/table

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Business demography by size class and NUTS 3 region, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, enterprises, number (bd_size_r), NUTS 3 areas of Italy by active enterprises, 2023. Eurostat, European Commission, 13 Mar. 2026, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size_r/default/table. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/active-enterprises/italy-provinces. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

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Eurostat, European Commission. 2026. Business demography by size class and NUTS 3 region, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, enterprises, number (bd_size_r). NUTS 3 areas of Italy by active enterprises, 2023. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size_r/default/table. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/active-enterprises/italy-provinces.

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Eurostat, European Commission (2026) Business demography by size class and NUTS 3 region, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, enterprises, number (bd_size_r), NUTS 3 areas of Italy by active enterprises, 2023 [Dataset]. Available at: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/bd_size_r/default/table, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/active-enterprises/italy-provinces (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

BibTeX

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Which area has the highest active enterprises?

Roma, with 368,840 in 2023, according to Eurostat, European Commission.

Which area has the lowest active enterprises?

Isernia, with 6,377 in 2023.

Where does this ranking come from?

Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: Eurostat, European Commission, Business demography by size class and NUTS 3 region, industry, construction and market services, all size classes, enterprises, number (bd_size_r). Retrieved 2026-10-12.