All things you need to know about living in Acate
Acate, in the province of Ragusa, is home to 2 Brazilians: 0.02% of its 10,405 residents.
That is the 4051st-highest concentration of Brazilians among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Sicilia it ranks 140th.
ISTAT counts 2,992 residents with a foreign citizenship in Acate, 28.76% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Brazilians (2), Swiss nationals (2), Russians (2).
That is above the national average for an Italian comune, which is 7.30%.
Acate qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Ragusa scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for overall Fixed Very High Capacity Network (VHCN) coverage.
It scores in the bottom quarter for density and importance of museums' heritage and people with at least upper secondary education level (25-64 years old).
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 29.8°C (86°F) and winters a low of 9.6°C (49°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Acate sees about 32 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 463mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 69 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
Acate population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 1,375 | 13.21% |
| Albania | 92 | 0.88% |
| Poland | 30 | 0.29% |
| Ukraine | 29 | 0.28% |
| Bulgaria | 2 | 0.02% |
| Brazil | 2 | 0.02% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 0.02% |
| Russia | 2 | 0.02% |
| Argentina | 1 | 0.01% |
| Austria | 1 | 0.01% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 0.01% |
| Ireland | 1 | 0.01% |
| Latvia | 1 | 0.01% |
| Slovakia | 1 | 0.01% |
| United States | 1 | 0.01% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Belgium | 0 | 0.00% |
| Canada | 0 | 0.00% |
| Cyprus | 0 | 0.00% |
| Czechia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Germany | 0 | 0.00% |
| Denmark | 0 | 0.00% |
| Estonia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Spain | 0 | 0.00% |
| Finland | 0 | 0.00% |
| France | 0 | 0.00% |
| Greece | 0 | 0.00% |
| Croatia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Hungary | 0 | 0.00% |
| Japan | 0 | 0.00% |
| South Korea | 0 | 0.00% |
| Lithuania | 0 | 0.00% |
| Luxembourg | 0 | 0.00% |
| Malta | 0 | 0.00% |
| Mexico | 0 | 0.00% |
| Netherlands | 0 | 0.00% |
| Norway | 0 | 0.00% |
| Portugal | 0 | 0.00% |
| Sweden | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovenia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Venezuela | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 7,532 | 72.39% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 1,308 | 12.57% |
| Born outside the EU | 1,565 | 15.04% |
Brazilians over time
Quality of life in Ragusa
Full BES profile for Ragusa →Ragusa on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Tax regimes
Acate qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime. Comfortably below the 30,000-resident ceiling.
Qualifying is about the town. Whether it applies to you depends on criteria no map can check — where you were tax-resident before, and where your income comes from.
How the 7% pensioner regime works, and every qualifying comune →Property prices
Buying in Acate is well below the Ragusa average of €882/m². Averaged across 3 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
23.9 years of rent here equal the purchase price, close to the national median of 22.2 years.
A ratio between two OMI prices, not a return on investment. It leaves out purchase taxes, IMU, maintenance, financing and the months a place sits empty — all of which push the real figure up. Useful for the question it does answer: whether this town looks expensive to buy relative to what renting in it costs.
A detached house here averages €621/m², against €646 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 20% more per square meter — the opposite of what the two averages above suggest, because OMI prices houses and flats in different parts of town.
OMI prices “Ville e Villini” separately from the apartments every other figure on this page describes. Nationally a house costs about 14% more per square meter, but in 450 comuni it costs less — worth checking rather than assuming.
Seismic zone
Acate is in seismic zone 2. Of the four zones, zone 1 is the highest hazard and zone 4 the lowest. The Department of Civil Protection describes zone 2 as a zone where strong earthquakes are possible.
This is the legal classification the Region gave the comune, used for planning and for control of building works. It is not a forecast, and it says nothing about the building you are looking at: since the 2018 building code the design load of a new building comes from site-specific hazard, not from the zone. Have any specific property checked by a qualified engineer.
Not to be confused with the “seismic” routes of the 7% pensioner regime. Those turn on whether the comune was in the 2009 L’Aquila or 2016–17 central-Italy earthquake areas, not on its zone, and being in zone 1 does not make anyone eligible for that regime, or for any tax treatment.
See every comune on the map →Hospital, airport and daily-needs distance
Nearest hospital: Ospedale Guzzardi Vittoria, about 11.7 km / 13 minutes by road from Acate (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Ospedale Guzzardi Vittoria (DEA level I), about 11.7 km / 13 minutes by road from Acate (the main town).
Nearest airport: Comiso Airport (CIY), about 14 km / 14 minutes by road from Acate (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Bapi, about 0.4 km / 1 minute by road from Acate (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Guccione Di Guccione Giuseppe & Luca Snc, about 0.4 km / 1 minute by road from Acate (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Acate, about 7.9 km / 9 minutes by road from Acate (the main town).
Measured by road from the main town of the comune (its OpenStreetMap place point; the geographic center for the few comuni with none), at free-flow speeds with no traffic. It is approximate. For Acate, a trip from your own address can take longer or shorter. Drive the route before you rely on it, and ask the local health authority which hospital serves the town. Shops, pharmacies and stations are the nearest to the main town, not to your address.
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