Italy has 7.900 Municipalities: of these, just 400 (5%) do not have at least one company run by a foreign citizen. In all, there are more than 60 non-Italian-led companies in our country (just under one in 10: 9,9%). Of these, 470 (about 80%) are individual micro-enterprises. The numbers have been elaborated by Unioncamere-InfoCamere on the basis of the registers of the Chambers of Commerce.
At the opposite end of the territorial ranking, in the remaining 7.500 Municipalities there are 107 where there are at least 500 economic activities of immigrants: just under 220 businesses which represent 46% of the whole universe of sole proprietorships of immigrants.
From the register of companies it emerges that, among these 107 Municipalities, the ranking by percentage weight places Casandrino (in the province of Naples) on the highest podium, with 58,3% of foreign companies out of the total of individual companies in the area. Followed by Castel Volturno (Caserta) with 54,7% and Sesto Fiorentino (Florence) where the ratio is close to one to two (49,7%). Immediately after, with percentages higher than 40% of foreign entrepreneurship compared to the local one, follow the Municipalities of San Nicola La Strada (Caserta) with 43,5%, Montemurlo (Prato) and Pioltello (Milan), both with 41,8%.
The strong concentration of foreign companies is accompanied by the prevalence of a specific nationality of birth of the entrepreneurs. In San Nicola La strada, 81,6% of immigrant business owners come from Senegal, in Sesto Fiorentino 77,1% of foreigners are Chinese, in Castel Volturno 54,1% of foreign-born entrepreneurs have Nigerian origins from the Italian borders and in Casandrino, the most represented community is that of Bangladesh (41,7%).
By cross-referencing the owners' countries of birth with those of the provinces in which the companies are based, a map of the provinces emerges which in fact have been elected as entrepreneurial "homelands" of certain nationalities: this is the case of Egypt which concentrates in the province of Milan almost half (43,5%) of all its businesses in Italy; or of Bangladesh which has its "headquarters" in Rome, where 42,7% of all its companies are based.
