All things you need to know about living in Castelpagano
Castelpagano, in the province of Benevento, is home to 1 French nationals: 0.08% of its 1,332 residents.
That is the 1047th-highest concentration of French nationals among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Campania it ranks 19th.
ISTAT counts 52 residents with a foreign citizenship in Castelpagano, 3.90% of the population. Among the nationalities we follow most closely, the two groups are French nationals (1) and Greeks (1).
Castelpagano 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 29.0°C (84°F) and winters a low of 0.8°C (33°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Castelpagano sees about 28 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 838mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 124 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Castelpagano at about €550 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
Castelpagano population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 12 | 0.90% |
| Ukraine | 3 | 0.23% |
| France | 1 | 0.08% |
| Greece | 1 | 0.08% |
| Albania | 0 | 0.00% |
| Argentina | 0 | 0.00% |
| Austria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Belgium | 0 | 0.00% |
| Bulgaria | 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% |
| Spain | 0 | 0.00% |
| Finland | 0 | 0.00% |
| United Kingdom | 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% |
| Poland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Portugal | 0 | 0.00% |
| Russia | 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 | 1,236 | 92.79% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 26 | 1.95% |
| Born outside the EU | 70 | 5.26% |
French nationals over time
Quality of life in Benevento
Full BES profile for Benevento →Benevento on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Tax regimes
Castelpagano 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 Castelpagano is well below the Benevento average of €743/m². Averaged across 2 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
17 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 €800/m², against €550 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 46% 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
Castelpagano is in seismic zone 1. Of the four zones, zone 1 is the highest hazard and zone 4 the lowest. The Department of Civil Protection describes zone 1 as the highest-hazard zone, where strong earthquakes are likely over the long run.
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 42.2 km / 38 minutes by road from Castelpagano (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Osp.Sacro Cuore di Gesu`fatebenefratelli, Benevento (Pronto Soccorso), about 42.2 km / 38 minutes by road from Castelpagano (the main town).
Nearest DEA (level I or II): Presidio Ospedaliero Rummo, Benevento (DEA level II), about 46.5 km / 41 minutes by road from Castelpagano (the main town).
Nearest airport: Foggia Gino Lisa Airport (FOG), about 89.3 km / 75 minutes by road from Castelpagano (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): SuperBriò, about 12.3 km / 13 minutes by road from Castelpagano (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Viglione Rita, about 2 km / 3 minutes by road from Castelpagano (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Santa Croce del Sannio, about 15.5 km / 19 minutes by road from Castelpagano (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 Castelpagano, 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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