Foreign residents in Blufi

Palermo, Sicilia · Population 860 · Median age 53 · Indice di vecchiaia 352.2 (2019)

Data as of 2026-08-09· ISTAT

Blufi, in the province of Palermo, is home to 2 Germans — 0.23% of its 860 residents. That is notable for a comune of its size.

Across the nationalities we track, Blufi counts 3 foreign residents in total, 0.35% of the population. The largest groups are Germans (2), Britons (1).

Over the period 2019–2025, the number of Germans in Blufi has risen, from 1 to 2 (+100%).

Separately, ISTAT's census data shows 8.8% of Blufi's population was born outside Italy — 3.0% outside the EU and 5.8% 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

20022025. ISTAT’s intercensal population reconstruction (2002–2018) and resident-population registry (2019 onward).

By nationality

NationalityCitizensShare
Germany20.23%
United Kingdom10.12%
Argentina00.00%
Austria00.00%
Australia00.00%
Belgium00.00%
Brazil00.00%
Canada00.00%
Switzerland00.00%
Denmark00.00%
Spain00.00%
Finland00.00%
France00.00%
Greece00.00%
Ireland00.00%
Japan00.00%
South Korea00.00%
Mexico00.00%
Netherlands00.00%
Norway00.00%
Portugal00.00%
Russia00.00%
Sweden00.00%
United States00.00%
Venezuela00.00%

“Citizens” counts residents holding that country’s citizenship, from ISTAT’s population registry.

Country of birth

GroupResidentsShare
Born in Italy78491.16%
Born elsewhere in the EU505.81%
Born outside the EU263.02%

From ISTAT’s census data. Broad groups only — ISTAT does not publish comune-level population by specific country of birth, so this isn’t comparable per-nationality to the citizenship table above. See about the data.

Germans over time

Quality of life in Palermo

Province-level well-being (BES), by domain — percentile rank against Italy’s other provinces. Higher is always better here, regardless of the underlying indicator’s direction.

Quality of services88
Landscape and cultural heritage72
Safety71
Environment25
Economic well-being21
Education and training17
Health11
Work and life balance6
Social relationships5

Full BES profile for PalermoPalermo on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →

Tax regimes

Blufi 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 →

This lists the regimes we’ve published. Others exist that we haven’t encoded yet — we add one only once it has been checked against the legislation — so this isn’t a complete account of what might apply to you.

Property prices

To buy

426 /

To rent

1.40 /m²/month

Buying in Blufi is far below the Palermo average of €1,110/m². Averaged across 3 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.

Buy or rent

25.3 years of rent here equal the purchase priceabove 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.

House or apartment

A detached house here averages 436/m², against €426 for an apartment.

Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighbourhood — a house costs 9% more per square metre.

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 metre, but in 450 comuni it costs less — worth checking rather than assuming.

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Agenzia delle Entrate — Osservatorio del Mercato Immobiliare (OMI), semester 2025 H2. Figures are midpoints of OMI’s surveyed ranges for “Abitazioni civili” in normal condition — a guide to the market, not a valuation of any particular property. Source.

Nearby comuni

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