Immigrants13.12.2011
Foreign population triples in province of Rome
There are over 442,000 foreign residents living in the province of Rome, with another 100,000 living in the greater Roman area, according to a report carried out by immigration officials in collaboration with the chamber of commerce and Catholic charitable association Caritas.
The report reveals that the province of Rome is the principal area of immigration in Italy and that the foreign population living in the region around the capital has tripled in the last ten years.
Data from 1 January of this year showed that there are 542,688 foreigners resident in the Lazio region, with over 80 per cent of them living in the province of Rome. “One person in every eight that you meet on the street in Rome is a foreigner” said researcher Franco Pittau.
Romanians constitute the largest foreign community in the province of Rome with some 153,000 residents, amounting to 34 per cent of the foreign population, followed by the Filippinos, numbering a little over 30,000. The next biggest foreign populations include the Polish (20,000), Bangladeshis (over 15,000), Ukranains, Albanians and Peruvians (each with over 14,000). There are 13,000 Chinese residents and 10,000 Moldavians.
The province’s foreigners have an average age of just under 38, and 40 per cent of them are married. There are 80,000 foreign children, of which about half were born in Italy, with 52,000 attending school, constituting almost nine per cent of school populations. One third of foreigners in the province come from EU countries, with a fifth of these from developed countries, many of them working in diplomatic and business circles.
Out of the 1.8 million people in employment in the province of Rome there are 235,000 foreigners in work, while 24,300 are without work, with an unemployment rate of nine per cent. There are over 22,000 foreign business owners.
One third of the city’s foreigners live in municipalities 1 (city centre), 8 (east Rome) and 20 (north Rome). Outside Rome, the next largest concentrations of foreigners can be found in Guidonia Montecelio north-east of the capital, followed by Fiumicino, Ladispoli and Pomezia, Tivoli and Anzio.
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