Rome scores 6.0/10 on overall safety. V-Dem rates Italy 76/100 on how equally social groups are treated in law, but institutional equality and street-level experience can differ. Here's what the data and real reviews say.
Rome scores 6.0/10, in the mostly-safe range. It is generally fine, with a few precautions depending on the neighborhood and time of day.
V-Dem (University of Gothenburg) rates Italy at 76/100 on how equally social and ethnic groups are treated in civil liberties, in the higher range. This is a structural indicator of institutional equality, not a measure of day-to-day experiences, so read it alongside the reviews from Black travelers below.
There is no global index of how safe a city is specifically for Black travelers, and we won't invent one. This page combines the city's overall safety score, a structural equality indicator from V-Dem, and the words of Black travelers who have actually been to Rome. Together they give a fuller, honest picture than any single number.
Every score on this page comes from official indicators and the safety model, not from AI-generated text. Where travelers who share your profile have reviewed Rome, you'll find their words below. Last reviewed 2026.
Sources: Georgetown WPS Index, Equaldex, UNESCO, World Bank, OpenStreetMap (ODbL), Wikidata (CC0) and MapSur community reviews. How we score
Social-group equality data: Social group equality in civil liberties (v2clsocgrp), v16, V-Dem (Varieties of Democracy), University of Gothenburg, via Our World in Data. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; values normalized by MapSur. Source.
2 reviews from Black travelers who visited Rome.
I fell in love with Rome! As a Black woman I was treated like a queen honestly. Italian men are flirty but mostly harmless lol. The pasta is life changing - dont eat near the tourist spots go to Trast…
Rome est une ville magique. En tant que femme noire, j'ai été très bien accueillie. Les Italiens sont chaleureux et curieux. Le Vatican, le Colisée, la fontaine de Trevi... Chaque coin de rue est un m…
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Rome scores 6.0/10 on general safety (crime, all visitors). That number doesn't capture racism specifically, so for Black travelers it's a starting point, not the answer. The structural equality indicator and the reviews from Black travelers on this page fill that gap.
It's V-Dem's measure of how equally social and ethnic groups are treated in civil liberties in Italy (76/100). It reflects laws and institutions, not day-to-day street experiences, which is why the reviews from Black travelers on this page matter alongside it.
