Foreign residents in Amatrice
Amatrice, in the province of Rieti, is home to 3 Britons — 0.14% of its 2,181 residents. That is the 553rd-highest concentration of Britons of any of the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents, and 42nd within Lazio.
Across the nationalities we track, Amatrice counts 10 foreign residents in total, 0.46% of the population. The largest groups are Britons (3), Belgians (2), Austrians (1).
Over the period 2019–2025, the number of Britons in Amatrice has risen, from 2 to 3 (+50%).
Separately, ISTAT's census data shows 8.4% of Amatrice's population was born outside Italy — 5.3% outside the EU and 3.1% elsewhere in the EU. ISTAT does not publish this broken down by specific country at comune level, so it isn't directly comparable to the per-nationality citizenship figures above.
Population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 3 | 0.14% |
| Belgium | 2 | 0.09% |
| Austria | 1 | 0.05% |
| Brazil | 1 | 0.05% |
| Canada | 1 | 0.05% |
| Spain | 1 | 0.05% |
| France | 1 | 0.05% |
| Argentina | 0 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Switzerland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Germany | 0 | 0.00% |
| Denmark | 0 | 0.00% |
| Finland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Greece | 0 | 0.00% |
| Ireland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Japan | 0 | 0.00% |
| South Korea | 0 | 0.00% |
| Mexico | 0 | 0.00% |
| Netherlands | 0 | 0.00% |
| Norway | 0 | 0.00% |
| Portugal | 0 | 0.00% |
| Russia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Sweden | 0 | 0.00% |
| United States | 0 | 0.00% |
| Venezuela | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 1,998 | 91.61% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 68 | 3.12% |
| Born outside the EU | 115 | 5.27% |
Britons over time
Quality of life in Rieti
Full BES profile for Rieti →Rieti on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Tax regimes
Amatrice 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
OMI records no market value for Amatrice. Agenzia delle Entrate surveys the town and returns a price of zero for every zone — which means there is no functioning residential market to price, not that property here is cheap.
Amatrice is one of sixteen comuni in this position. Fifteen are in the belt destroyed by the 2016 Central Italy earthquake; the sixteenth, Gibellina, was destroyed in 1968. We publish the absence rather than a zero, because a zero would rank the most devastated towns in Italy as its cheapest.