All things you need to know about living in Cervicati
Cervicati, in the province of Cosenza, is home to 1 Brazilians: 0.13% of its 767 residents.
ISTAT counts 17 residents with a foreign citizenship in Cervicati, 2.22% of the population. Among the nationalities we follow most closely, the only group is Brazilians (1).
These are small numbers, so we would not read much into the percentage or any change in it.
Cervicati qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Cosenza scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for burglaries reported and PM10 Annual average concentration.
It scores in the bottom quarter for employment rate (20-64 years old) 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 30.3°C (87°F) and winters a low of 4.1°C (39°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Cervicati sees about 43 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 815mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 114 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Cervicati at about €515 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
At those figures, buying costs about 21.5 years of renting the same property.
Cervicati population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 7 | 0.91% |
| Brazil | 1 | 0.13% |
| Ukraine | 1 | 0.13% |
| Albania | 0 | 0.00% |
| Argentina | 0 | 0.00% |
| Austria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Belgium | 0 | 0.00% |
| Bulgaria | 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% |
| France | 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% |
| United States | 0 | 0.00% |
| Venezuela | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 727 | 94.78% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 17 | 2.22% |
| Born outside the EU | 23 | 3.00% |
Brazilians over time
Quality of life in Cosenza
Full BES profile for Cosenza →Cosenza on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Tax regimes
Cervicati 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 Cervicati is well below the Cosenza average of €795/m². Based on a single OMI micro-zone, so it describes the town as one market.
21.5 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.
Seismic zone
Cervicati 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: IGRECO Ospedali Riuniti ex La Madonnina, about 39.2 km / 32 minutes by road from Cervicati (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Presidio Ospedaliero Annunziata, Cosenza (DEA level II), about 40.4 km / 33 minutes by road from Cervicati (the main town).
Nearest airport: Lamezia Terme Sant'Eufemia International Airport (SUF), about 101.5 km / 71 minutes by road from Cervicati (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Supermercato Progresso, about 3.6 km / 5 minutes by road from Cervicati (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Antica Farmacia Normanna Sas di Lipari Alessandra & C., about 3.5 km / 5 minutes by road from Cervicati (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): San Marco-Roggiano, about 14.5 km / 14 minutes by road from Cervicati (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 Cervicati, 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.
Nearby comuni
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