All things you need to know about living in Albanella
Albanella, in the province of Salerno, is home to 4 Brazilians: 0.06% of its 6,315 residents.
That is the 2625th-highest concentration of Brazilians among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Campania it ranks 99th.
ISTAT counts 587 residents with a foreign citizenship in Albanella, 9.30% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Brazilians (4), Russians (4), Germans (3).
That is above the national average for an Italian comune, which is 7.30%.
Albanella qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Salerno scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for intentional homicide rate and PM10 Annual average concentration.
It scores in the bottom quarter for nonprofit organizations and life expectancy at birth.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 30.6°C (87°F) and winters a low of 4.1°C (39°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Albanella sees about 45 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 1,263mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 125 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
Albanella population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 97 | 1.54% |
| Ukraine | 30 | 0.48% |
| Brazil | 4 | 0.06% |
| Poland | 4 | 0.06% |
| Russia | 4 | 0.06% |
| Germany | 3 | 0.05% |
| Spain | 1 | 0.02% |
| France | 1 | 0.02% |
| Venezuela | 1 | 0.02% |
| Albania | 0 | 0.00% |
| Argentina | 0 | 0.00% |
| Austria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Belgium | 0 | 0.00% |
| Bulgaria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Canada | 0 | 0.00% |
| Switzerland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Cyprus | 0 | 0.00% |
| Czechia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Denmark | 0 | 0.00% |
| Estonia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Finland | 0 | 0.00% |
| United Kingdom | 0 | 0.00% |
| Greece | 0 | 0.00% |
| Croatia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Hungary | 0 | 0.00% |
| Ireland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Japan | 0 | 0.00% |
| South Korea | 0 | 0.00% |
| Lithuania | 0 | 0.00% |
| Luxembourg | 0 | 0.00% |
| Latvia | 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% |
| Slovakia | 0 | 0.00% |
| United States | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 5,626 | 89.09% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 176 | 2.79% |
| Born outside the EU | 513 | 8.12% |
Brazilians over time
Quality of life in Salerno
Full BES profile for Salerno →Salerno on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Tax regimes
Albanella 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 Albanella is well below the Salerno average of €1,213/m². Averaged across 3 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
29.7 years of rent here equal the purchase price — above 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 €790/m², against €755 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 21% more per square meter.
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
Albanella 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: P.O.Roccadaspide, about 12.3 km / 13 minutes by road from Albanella (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: P.O.Roccadaspide (Pronto Soccorso), about 12.3 km / 13 minutes by road from Albanella (the main town).
Nearest DEA (level I or II): P.O.S.Maria Addolorata Eboli (DEA level I), about 24.7 km / 31 minutes by road from Albanella (the main town).
Nearest airport: Salerno Costa d'Amalfi Airport (QSR), about 33.1 km / 36 minutes by road from Albanella (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Qui Discount New Dream, about 6.1 km / 8 minutes by road from Albanella (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Pavese S.r.l., about 0.3 km / 1 minute by road from Albanella (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Capaccio-Roccadaspide, about 12.1 km / 13 minutes by road from Albanella (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 Albanella, 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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