All things you need to know about living in Baiso
Baiso, in the province of Reggio nell'Emilia, is home to 6 Spaniards: 0.18% of its 3,263 residents.
That is the 85th-highest concentration of Spaniards among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Emilia-Romagna it ranks 4th.
ISTAT counts 348 residents with a foreign citizenship in Baiso, 10.67% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Spaniards (6), Britons (5), Belgians (3).
That is above the national average for an Italian comune, which is 7.30%.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Reggio nell'Emilia scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for average disposable income per capita and urban green.
It scores in the bottom quarter for hospital beds in high-care wards and electricity from renewable sources.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 28.8°C (84°F) and winters a low of 0.2°C (32°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Baiso sees about 24 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 1,226mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 131 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Baiso at about €888 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
Baiso population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 53 | 1.62% |
| Ukraine | 22 | 0.67% |
| Poland | 19 | 0.58% |
| Spain | 6 | 0.18% |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 0.15% |
| Belgium | 3 | 0.09% |
| France | 3 | 0.09% |
| Slovakia | 2 | 0.06% |
| Albania | 1 | 0.03% |
| Brazil | 1 | 0.03% |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 0.03% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 0.03% |
| Russia | 1 | 0.03% |
| United States | 1 | 0.03% |
| Argentina | 0 | 0.00% |
| Austria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Bulgaria | 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% |
| 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% |
| Latvia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Malta | 0 | 0.00% |
| Mexico | 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 | 2,807 | 86.03% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 118 | 3.62% |
| Born outside the EU | 338 | 10.36% |
Spaniards over time
Quality of life in Reggio nell'Emilia
Full BES profile for Reggio nell'Emilia →Reggio nell'Emilia on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Property prices
Buying in Baiso is well below the Reggio nell'Emilia average of €1,168/m². Averaged across 2 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
24.2 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 €975/m², against €888 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 10% 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
Baiso is in seismic zone 3. Of the four zones, zone 1 is the highest hazard and zone 4 the lowest. The Department of Civil Protection describes zone 3 as a zone where strong earthquakes are less likely than in zones 1 and 2.
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 "g.Magati" Scandiano, about 20.3 km / 24 minutes by road from Baiso (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Ospedale S.Anna Castelnovo Ne Monti (Pronto Soccorso), about 23.8 km / 28 minutes by road from Baiso (the main town).
Nearest DEA (level I or II): Nuovo Ospedale Civile di Sassuolo S.P.a. (DEA level I), about 27.9 km / 29 minutes by road from Baiso (the main town).
Nearest airport: Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ), about 84.4 km / 64 minutes by road from Baiso (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): supermarket Sigma, about 6.8 km / 8 minutes by road from Baiso (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia di Baiso SRL, about 0.3 km / 1 minute by road from Baiso (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Veggia, about 21.5 km / 21 minutes by road from Baiso (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 Baiso, 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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