All things you need to know about living in Brindisi
Brindisi, in the province of Brindisi, is home to 41 Britons: 0.05% of its 81,723 residents.
That is the 1481st-highest concentration of Britons among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Puglia it ranks 35th.
ISTAT counts 2,724 residents with a foreign citizenship in Brindisi, 3.33% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Britons (41), Germans (33), Spaniards (32).
It scores in the bottom quarter for intentional homicide rate and average disposable income per capita.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 33.3°C (92°F) and winters a low of 6.6°C (44°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Brindisi sees about 76 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 620mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 90 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Brindisi at about €1,275 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
At those figures, buying costs about 17.6 years of renting the same property.
That is above most Italian comuni.
Brindisi population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 326 | 0.40% |
| Albania | 216 | 0.26% |
| Poland | 42 | 0.05% |
| United Kingdom | 41 | 0.05% |
| Ukraine | 34 | 0.04% |
| Germany | 33 | 0.04% |
| Spain | 32 | 0.04% |
| France | 27 | 0.03% |
| Brazil | 25 | 0.03% |
| United States | 24 | 0.03% |
| Greece | 17 | 0.02% |
| Russia | 16 | 0.02% |
| Hungary | 13 | 0.02% |
| Bulgaria | 12 | 0.01% |
| Portugal | 11 | 0.01% |
| Netherlands | 10 | 0.01% |
| Venezuela | 10 | 0.01% |
| Croatia | 9 | 0.01% |
| Belgium | 8 | 0.01% |
| Ireland | 6 | 0.01% |
| Canada | 5 | 0.01% |
| Mexico | 5 | 0.01% |
| Argentina | 4 | 0.00% |
| Austria | 3 | 0.00% |
| Finland | 3 | 0.00% |
| Lithuania | 3 | 0.00% |
| Sweden | 3 | 0.00% |
| Slovenia | 3 | 0.00% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 0.00% |
| Japan | 2 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 1 | 0.00% |
| Czechia | 1 | 0.00% |
| Latvia | 1 | 0.00% |
| Malta | 1 | 0.00% |
| Norway | 1 | 0.00% |
| Cyprus | 0 | 0.00% |
| Denmark | 0 | 0.00% |
| Estonia | 0 | 0.00% |
| South Korea | 0 | 0.00% |
| Luxembourg | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovakia | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 77,647 | 95.01% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 969 | 1.19% |
| Born outside the EU | 3,107 | 3.80% |
Britons over time
Quality of life in Brindisi
Full BES profile for Brindisi →Brindisi on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Property prices
About the Brindisi average of €1,257/m². Averaged across 7 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
17.6 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 €1,176/m², against €1,275 for an apartment.
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
Brindisi is in seismic zone 4. Of the four zones, zone 1 is the highest hazard and zone 4 the lowest. The Department of Civil Protection describes zone 4 as the lowest-hazard zone, where a strong earthquake is very unlikely.
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.
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Nearest hospital: Ospedale Perrino Brindisi, about 3.7 km / 6 minutes by road from Brindisi (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Ospedale Perrino Brindisi (DEA level II), about 3.7 km / 6 minutes by road from Brindisi (the main town).
Nearest airport: Brindisi Airport (BDS), about 4.6 km / 7 minutes by road from Brindisi (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): EuroSpin, about 0 km / 1 minute by road from Brindisi (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Africa Orientale, about 0.2 km / 1 minute by road from Brindisi (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Brindisi Centrale, about 0.9 km / 2 minutes by road from Brindisi (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 Brindisi, 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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