All things you need to know about living in Argenta
Argenta, in the province of Ferrara, is home to 17 Brazilians: 0.08% of its 21,187 residents.
That is the 2126th-highest concentration of Brazilians among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Emilia-Romagna it ranks 131st.
ISTAT counts 2,816 residents with a foreign citizenship in Argenta, 13.29% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Brazilians (17), Russians (12), Venezuelans (6).
That is above the national average for an Italian comune, which is 7.30%.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Ferrara scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for medical specialists and urban green.
It scores in the bottom quarter for hospital beds in high-care wards.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 31.7°C (89°F) and winters a low of 1.1°C (34°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Argenta sees about 59 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 753mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 103 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Argenta at about €805 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
Argenta population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 501 | 2.36% |
| Ukraine | 186 | 0.88% |
| Albania | 91 | 0.43% |
| Poland | 56 | 0.26% |
| Brazil | 17 | 0.08% |
| Russia | 12 | 0.06% |
| Slovakia | 9 | 0.04% |
| Venezuela | 6 | 0.03% |
| Germany | 4 | 0.02% |
| Croatia | 4 | 0.02% |
| Bulgaria | 3 | 0.01% |
| Switzerland | 3 | 0.01% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 0.01% |
| Czechia | 2 | 0.01% |
| Latvia | 2 | 0.01% |
| Argentina | 1 | 0.00% |
| Austria | 1 | 0.00% |
| Belgium | 1 | 0.00% |
| Denmark | 1 | 0.00% |
| France | 1 | 0.00% |
| Japan | 1 | 0.00% |
| Lithuania | 1 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Canada | 0 | 0.00% |
| Cyprus | 0 | 0.00% |
| Estonia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Spain | 0 | 0.00% |
| Finland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Greece | 0 | 0.00% |
| Hungary | 0 | 0.00% |
| Ireland | 0 | 0.00% |
| South Korea | 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% |
| United States | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 17,872 | 84.35% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 608 | 2.87% |
| Born outside the EU | 2,707 | 12.78% |
Brazilians over time
Quality of life in Ferrara
Full BES profile for Ferrara →Ferrara on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Property prices
Buying in Argenta is below the Ferrara average of €972/m². Averaged across 9 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
16.2 years of rent here equal the purchase price — below 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.
Housing here in excellent condition costs 32% more than ordinary condition — €1,061/m² against €805.
That gap is what the market charges for a place you don’t have to work on. It is not what the work would cost you — OMI prices property, not builders.
A detached house here averages €886/m², against €805 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 11% 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
Argenta 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 "mazzolani Vandini" Argenta, about 0.6 km / 1 minute by road from Argenta (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Ospedale Mazzolani Vandini Argenta (Pronto Soccorso), about 0.6 km / 1 minute by road from Argenta (the main town).
Nearest DEA (level I or II): Ospedale Umberto 1° Lugo (DEA level I), about 26 km / 27 minutes by road from Argenta (the main town).
Nearest airport: Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ), about 73.5 km / 48 minutes by road from Argenta (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Conad City, about 0.3 km / 1 minute by road from Argenta (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Marangoni S.R.L., about 0.3 km / 1 minute by road from Argenta (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Argenta, about 0.8 km / 1 minute by road from Argenta (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 Argenta, 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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