All things you need to know about living in Arpaise
Arpaise, in the province of Benevento, is home to 1 Spaniards: 0.14% of its 720 residents.
ISTAT counts 30 residents with a foreign citizenship in Arpaise, 4.17% of the population. Among the nationalities we follow most closely, the two groups are Spaniards (1) and Russians (1).
Arpaise qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Benevento scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for electricity from renewable sources and intentional homicide rate.
It scores in the bottom quarter for average disposable income per capita 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 29.4°C (85°F) and winters a low of 2.0°C (36°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Arpaise sees about 31 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 1,192mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 126 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Arpaise at about €675 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
At those figures, buying costs about 16.1 years of renting the same property.
That is below most Italian comuni.
Arpaise population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Ukraine | 11 | 1.53% |
| Romania | 5 | 0.69% |
| Albania | 4 | 0.56% |
| Poland | 2 | 0.28% |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 0.14% |
| Spain | 1 | 0.14% |
| Russia | 1 | 0.14% |
| Argentina | 0 | 0.00% |
| Austria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Belgium | 0 | 0.00% |
| Brazil | 0 | 0.00% |
| Canada | 0 | 0.00% |
| Switzerland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Cyprus | 0 | 0.00% |
| Czechia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Germany | 0 | 0.00% |
| Denmark | 0 | 0.00% |
| Estonia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Finland | 0 | 0.00% |
| France | 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% |
| Venezuela | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 664 | 92.22% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 15 | 2.08% |
| Born outside the EU | 41 | 5.69% |
Spaniards over time
Quality of life in Benevento
Full BES profile for Benevento →Benevento on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Tax regimes
Arpaise 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 Arpaise is below the Benevento average of €743/m². Averaged across 2 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
16.1 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.
A detached house here averages €1,300/m², against €675 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 86% 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
Arpaise 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: Osp.Sacro Cuore di Gesu`fatebenefratelli, about 17.1 km / 20 minutes by road from Arpaise (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Osp.Sacro Cuore di Gesu`fatebenefratelli, Benevento (Pronto Soccorso), about 17.1 km / 20 minutes by road from Arpaise (the main town).
Nearest DEA (level I or II): Presidio Ospedaliero Rummo, Benevento (DEA level II), about 18.3 km / 20 minutes by road from Arpaise (the main town).
Nearest airport: Naples International Airport (NAP), about 72.4 km / 60 minutes by road from Arpaise (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Minimarket Macelleria Principe Teresa, about 3.9 km / 6 minutes by road from Arpaise (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Macario S.a.S. del Dott. Macario Carlo, about 0.6 km / 1 minute by road from Arpaise (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Tufara Valle - Arpaise - Ceppaloni, about 6.1 km / 8 minutes by road from Arpaise (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 Arpaise, 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.
Nearby comuni
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