All things you need to know about living in Cerami
Cerami, in the province of Enna, is home to 9 Argentinians: 0.48% of its 1,890 residents.
That is the 60th-highest concentration of Argentinians among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Sicilia it ranks 16th.
ISTAT counts 37 residents with a foreign citizenship in Cerami, 1.96% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Argentinians (9), Australians (3), French nationals (3).
That puts Cerami in the bottom ten percent of Italian comuni for foreign residents. Anyone moving here should expect to be unusual.
Cerami qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Enna scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for PM10 Annual average concentration and burglaries reported.
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 28.5°C (83°F) and winters a low of 1.5°C (35°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Cerami sees about 23 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 813mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 121 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
Cerami population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Argentina | 9 | 0.48% |
| Australia | 3 | 0.16% |
| France | 3 | 0.16% |
| Romania | 2 | 0.11% |
| Albania | 0 | 0.00% |
| Austria | 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% |
| 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% |
| 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% |
| Ukraine | 0 | 0.00% |
| United States | 0 | 0.00% |
| Venezuela | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 1,706 | 90.26% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 76 | 4.02% |
| Born outside the EU | 108 | 5.71% |
Argentinians over time
Quality of life in Enna
Full BES profile for Enna →Enna on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Tax regimes
Cerami 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 Cerami is well below the Enna average of €655/m². Based on a single OMI micro-zone, so it describes the town as one market.
23.6 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 €630/m², against €453 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 39% 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
Cerami is in seismic zone 2. 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: Associazione Oasi Maria SS, about 12.8 km / 11 minutes by road from Cerami (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: P. O. 'Carlo Basilotta', Nicosia (Pronto Soccorso), about 23.2 km / 20 minutes by road from Cerami (the main town).
Nearest DEA (level I or II): P. O. 'Umberto I', Enna (DEA level I), about 64.7 km / 65 minutes by road from Cerami (the main town).
Nearest airport: Catania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA), about 86.7 km / 80 minutes by road from Cerami (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): ARD Discount, about 9.6 km / 8 minutes by road from Cerami (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Occhipinti Antonio, about 0.3 km / 1 minute by road from Cerami (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Maletto, about 51.9 km / 46 minutes by road from Cerami (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 Cerami, 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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