Mileto vs Tropea
Two municipalities in Vibo Valentia, Italy, side by side on the five things this site grades — climate & hazards, local vitality, services, affordability and property market. Every figure comes from official open data, and the ones that cannot honestly be compared are marked rather than quietly averaged.
Mileto
A provisional grade had at least one pillar filled with a neutral 50 rather than measured. Where one side is provisional and the other is not, the gap between the two grades may be partly made of that fill — treat the pillar rows below as the evidence, not the letters.
Pillar by pillar
| Pillar | Mileto | Tropea |
|---|---|---|
| Climate & hazards | 69/100 | 81/100 ▲ |
| Local vitality | 33/100 | 56/100 ▲ |
| Services & access | 34/100 | 55/100 ▲ |
| Affordability | not measured | 11/100 |
| Property market | 13/100 | 58/100 ▲ |
Pillar scores are percentile ranks within each municipality's own country, so a 70 in Spain and a 70 in Italy each mean "ahead of 70% of this country's towns" — not that the two places are alike.
The underlying figures
| Indicator | Mileto | Tropea |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 6,238 inhab. (2025) | 5,706 inhab. (2025) |
| Population trend (~10y) | -6.3% (2019→2025) declining — the key rural depopulation risk | -7.3% (2019→2025) declining — the key rural depopulation risk |
| Price (€/m²) | no data | 1,438 €/m² mean of the comune’s OMI zones · 2018 data |
| Gross rental yield | no data | 5.0% OMI rent ÷ OMI price · 2018 data |
| Tourism / short-let potential | 16.7 beds / 1,000 inhab. coastal hotspot | 1335.3 beds / 1,000 inhab. ▲ coastal hotspot |
| Foreign residents | 4.81% (2025) | 5.31% (2025) ▲ |
| Everyday essentials | 2 of 4 in the municipality supermarket, school | 4 of 4 in the municipality ▲ pharmacy, supermarket, school, doctor |
| International airport | Catania-Fontanarossa (CTA) (153.2 km) ▲ | Catania-Fontanarossa (CTA) (151.8 km) |
| Wildfire exposure | <0.1% over 30 years (240 detection(s) < 20 km, max FRP 99.6 MW) NASA FIRMS 2012–2025 | <0.1% over 30 years (125 detection(s) < 20 km, max FRP 62.9 MW) NASA FIRMS 2012–2025 |
| Seismic activity | 5.1% over 30 years (126 quake(s) < 100 km, max M6.2) USGS, since 1960 | 1.3% over 30 years (167 quake(s) < 100 km, max M6.2) ▲ USGS, since 1960 |
| Tsunami exposure | 0% over 30 years (4 recorded tsunami(s) < 20 km, max height 0 m) 4 with no measured wave height | 0% over 30 years (4 recorded tsunami(s) < 20 km, max height 0 m) 4 with no measured wave height |
Which way each is going
| Population momentum | Mileto | Tropea |
|---|---|---|
| Annualised change | -1.08 %/yr 2019–2025 | -1.25 %/yr 2019–2025 |
Demographic momentum is an absolute rate and feeds no grade of its own — see the momentum pages.
How to read this
Grades are computed from official open data — statistics offices, hazard catalogues, land registries and OpenStreetMap — never from reviews, listings or opinion. Each indicator is ranked against the other municipalities of the same country, except the natural hazards, which are absolute 30-year probabilities and therefore mean the same thing everywhere.
That is why some rows above carry no comparison. Spain counts registered tourist dwellings where Italy counts every tourist bed place; each statistics office defines a foreign resident differently; the property-price vintages run from 2018 in Italy to 2025 in Portugal. Putting two such numbers side by side and calling the difference a finding would be inventing one, so the row states the reason instead.
Full method, sources and known gaps: the methodology page.