All things you need to know about living in Colle d'Anchise
Colle d'Anchise, in the province of Campobasso, is home to 2 Argentinians: 0.27% of its 730 residents.
ISTAT counts 9 residents with a foreign citizenship in Colle d'Anchise, 1.23% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Argentinians (2), Dutch nationals (1), Venezuelans (1).
That puts Colle d'Anchise in the bottom ten percent of Italian comuni for foreign residents. Anyone moving here should expect to be unusual.
These are small numbers, so we would not read much into the percentage or any change in it.
Colle d'Anchise qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Campobasso scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for overall Fixed Very High Capacity Network (VHCN) coverage and PM10 Annual average concentration.
It scores in the bottom quarter for road mortality in non-urban roads and density and importance of museums' heritage.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 26.9°C (80°F) and winters a low of -0.4°C (31°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Colle d'Anchise sees about 10 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 1,045mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 142 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Colle d'Anchise at about €450 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
Colle d'Anchise population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Argentina | 2 | 0.27% |
| Romania | 2 | 0.27% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 0.14% |
| Venezuela | 1 | 0.14% |
| Albania | 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% |
| 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% |
| 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% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 677 | 92.74% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 5 | 0.68% |
| Born outside the EU | 48 | 6.58% |
Argentinians over time
Quality of life in Campobasso
Full BES profile for Campobasso →Campobasso on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Tax regimes
Colle d'Anchise 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 Colle d'Anchise is well below the Campobasso average of €787/m². Based on a single OMI micro-zone, so it describes the town as one market.
17.9 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 €575/m², against €450 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 28% 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
Colle d'Anchise 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: CASA DI CURA PRIVATA VILLA ESTHER s.r.l., about 5.8 km / 8 minutes by road from Colle d'Anchise (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Presidio Ospedaliero 'a.Cardarelli', Campobasso (DEA level I), about 23.6 km / 22 minutes by road from Colle d'Anchise (the main town).
Nearest airport: Naples International Airport (NAP), about 132.2 km / 98 minutes by road from Colle d'Anchise (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Lidl, about 5.4 km / 7 minutes by road from Colle d'Anchise (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Albanese Maria Rosaria, about 0 km / 1 minute by road from Colle d'Anchise (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Bojano, about 5.7 km / 7 minutes by road from Colle d'Anchise (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 Colle d'Anchise, 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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