NUTS 3 areas of Italy by active enterprises

Roma had the highest active enterprises of 107 areas in 2022, at 365,547. Isernia had the lowest, at 6,402. The median was 27,527 and the figure for Italy was 4.58 million. Source: Eurostat, European Commission.

Highest365,547Roma

Lowest6,402Isernia

Median27,527107 areas

Italy4,579,525History

Top 40 areas, 2022

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	2022 count	Change on 2021
1	Roma	365,547	+4.2%
2	Milano	330,903	+4.1%
3	Napoli	194,557	+3.5%
4	Torino	179,891	+2.9%
5	Brescia	104,807	+2.2%
6	Firenze	94,364	+3.3%
7	Bologna	89,623	+2.2%
8	Bari	89,159	+2.1%
9	Bergamo	87,215	+2.1%
10	Padova	84,213	+1.7%
11	Salerno	78,930	+2.8%
12	Verona	77,181	+2.1%
13	Monza e della Brianza	73,261	+4.6%
14	Treviso	71,261	+1.9%
15	Vicenza	70,299	+1.3%
16	Palermo	68,524	+4.1%
17	Genova	68,522	+2.3%
18	Catania	67,870	+3.3%
19	Venezia	66,219	+3.2%
20	Varese	65,721	+2.4%
21	Modena	59,115	+1.8%
22	Lecce	58,779	+2.7%
23	Caserta	53,709	+2.8%
24	Perugia	51,784	+2.1%
25	Cuneo	47,054	+1.7%
26	Bolzano-Bozen	46,237	+2.7%
27	Como	45,878	+2.5%
28	Cosenza	43,303	+3.3%
29	Reggio nell’Emilia	41,845	+1.7%
30	Trento	41,754	+2.2%
31	Messina	40,471	+1.6%
32	Latina	39,209	+2.3%
33	Udine	39,057	+1.7%
34	Pavia	37,800	+2.2%
35	Foggia	37,053	+2.1%
36	Sassari	36,979	+3.2%
37	Parma	36,946	+1.6%
38	Ancona	35,882	+1.4%
39	Pisa	35,422	+2.2%
40	Rimini	35,104	+1.5%
41	Lucca	35,101	+2.6%
42	Cagliari	33,766	+2.7%
43	Forlì-Cesena	33,377	+1.4%
44	Frosinone	32,791	+2.6%
45	Taranto	31,706	+2.4%
46	Pesaro e Urbino	30,883	+1.6%
47	Reggio Calabria	30,150	+2.6%
48	Alessandria	29,472	+1.6%
49	Ravenna	29,465	+1.9%
50	Mantova	29,380	+1.2%
51	Prato	28,882	+2.2%
52	Arezzo	28,095	+1.4%
53	Macerata	27,814	+1.5%
54	Pescara	27,527	+3%
55	Avellino	27,513	+2.6%
56	Chieti	26,923	+2.4%
57	Barletta-Andria-Trani	26,210	+1.8%
58	Novara	26,195	+1.6%
59	Trapani	25,856	+2.7%
60	Lecco	25,820	+2.1%
61	Livorno	25,679	+1.7%
62	Pistoia	25,088	+2.6%
63	Teramo	24,479	+1.9%
64	Brindisi	24,438	+3.1%
65	Savona	24,264	+1.9%
66	Potenza	23,974	+2.1%
67	Ferrara	23,964	+1.3%
68	Cremona	23,834	+1.3%
69	Agrigento	23,424	+2.9%
70	Catanzaro	22,759	+2.4%
71	Viterbo	22,587	+2.7%
72	Piacenza	22,351	+1.1%
73	L’Aquila	22,006	+2.7%
74	Siena	21,915	+1.7%
75	Siracusa	21,766	+3.1%
76	Pordenone	21,436	+1.6%
77	Ragusa	21,357	+3.6%
78	Benevento	18,946	+2%
79	Ascoli Piceno	17,718	+1.4%
80	Grosseto	17,694	+1.6%
81	Sud Sardegna	17,518	+1.4%
82	Imperia	17,509	+3%
83	La Spezia	16,751	+2.4%
84	Terni	16,350	+2.2%
85	Rovigo	16,315	+0.5%
86	Massa-Carrara	16,142	+2.5%
87	Fermo	15,846	+1.1%
88	Asti	15,800	+2.2%
89	Trieste	15,330	+2.8%
90	Campobasso	14,983	+0.7%
91	Lodi	13,958	+2.5%
92	Belluno	13,904	+0.9%
93	Caltanissetta	13,705	+2.7%
94	Nuoro	13,610	+2.6%
95	Sondrio	13,435	+1.7%
96	Biella	12,859	+1.5%
97	Matera	12,313	+2.6%
98	Verbano-Cusio-Ossola	11,663	+1.3%
99	Vercelli	11,414	+1.2%
100	Valle d’Aosta/Vallée d’Aoste	11,207	+1.8%
101	Rieti	9,531	+1.7%
102	Vibo Valentia	9,468	+3.3%
103	Oristano	9,310	+1.3%
104	Crotone	9,268	+3.3%
105	Enna	8,666	+1.5%
106	Gorizia	8,215	+1.9%
107	Isernia	6,402	+2.7%

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, 2022) [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, 2022. 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?period=2022. 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, 2022. 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?period=2022.

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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, 2022 [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?period=2022 (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

BibTeX

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Which area has the highest active enterprises?

Roma, with 365,547 in 2022, according to Eurostat, European Commission.

Which area has the lowest active enterprises?

Isernia, with 6,402 in 2022.

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.