All things you need to know about living in Castrocielo
Castrocielo, in the province of Frosinone, is home to 3 French nationals: 0.08% of its 3,733 residents.
That is the 958th-highest concentration of French nationals among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Lazio it ranks 69th.
ISTAT counts 149 residents with a foreign citizenship in Castrocielo, 3.99% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are French nationals (3), Brazilians (2), Russians (2).
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Frosinone scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for people with at least upper secondary education level (25-64 years old).
It scores in the bottom quarter for medical specialists 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 30.7°C (87°F) and winters a low of 0.9°C (34°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Castrocielo sees about 43 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 1,274mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 130 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Castrocielo at about €488 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
That is below most Italian comuni.
Castrocielo population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 35 | 0.94% |
| Bulgaria | 11 | 0.29% |
| Albania | 6 | 0.16% |
| France | 3 | 0.08% |
| Ukraine | 3 | 0.08% |
| Brazil | 2 | 0.05% |
| Russia | 2 | 0.05% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 0.03% |
| Latvia | 1 | 0.03% |
| Poland | 1 | 0.03% |
| Argentina | 0 | 0.00% |
| Austria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Belgium | 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% |
| 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% |
| 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 | 3,497 | 93.68% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 104 | 2.79% |
| Born outside the EU | 132 | 3.54% |
French nationals over time
Quality of life in Frosinone
Full BES profile for Frosinone →Frosinone on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Property prices
Buying in Castrocielo is below the Frosinone average of €601/m². Averaged across 3 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town. OMI records no rental figures here.
A detached house here averages €648/m², against €488 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 27% 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
Castrocielo is in seismic zone 2 (the Region labels it 2A). 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: Casa di Cura Priv. S. Anna S.R.L Cassino, about 21.8 km / 18 minutes by road from Castrocielo (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Ospedale S. Scolastica Cassino (DEA level I), about 23 km / 19 minutes by road from Castrocielo (the main town).
Nearest airport: Naples International Airport (NAP), about 104.6 km / 58 minutes by road from Castrocielo (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Supermarket, about 0.2 km / 1 minute by road from Castrocielo (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Zincone Massimo, about 2.9 km / 5 minutes by road from Castrocielo (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Piedimonte-Villa Santa Lucia-Aquino, about 6.3 km / 8 minutes by road from Castrocielo (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 Castrocielo, 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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