An elderly city, despite the increase in foreign families, with several areas with a low level of education and where i young people from the suburbs they often don’t study or work. It’s not a flattering portrait that you paint Istat data on the Piedmontese capital, who together with other colleagues spread across the national territory, from Rome to Naples, was included in a study aimed at investigating the safety conditions and state of degradation of the suburbs. A search in which Turin emerges with broken bones, and she is not the only one.
If Italy is a country that is aging at record times, both due to the increase in life expectancy and the reduction in the birth rate, Turin is an excellent interpreter of this. In Mirafiori and Santa Rita, for example, the elderly are three times as many as the young, and it is not a figure of speech, but a specific fact. The exception that proves the rule is Monterosa village, where there are 108 residents over 64 for every 100 under 14. There is only one explanation: the high presence of foreigners in the area, 431.3 per thousand inhabitants, greater than that of other neighborhoods and capable of keeping the old age index. A characteristic that “saves” the demographic balances of Turin, Milan and Genoa, where the incidence of foreign residents is higher than in the southern municipalities: 187.8 per thousand inhabitants in Milan, only 38.4 in Palermo.
Moving on to the topic of bass education levelHowever, also in this case Turin has some areas that are more critical than others. In this case, the entire northern suburbs of the city were rejected: from Borgo Dora to Aurora, up to Valdocco and Barriera di Milano. Areas which are characterized by higher shares of people with a low level of education (always above 5%), to which is added a significant component of young people who do not study or work (almost always above 30%). Finally, an unusual fact: in Turin 35.9% of families do not live in their own homea statistic that places it (with Milan) behind Palermo, where the average stands at 34.5%.
