Foreign residents in Dipignano

Cosenza, Calabria · Population 4,066 · Median age 46 · Indice di vecchiaia 159 (2019)

Data as of 2026-08-09· ISTAT

Dipignano, in the province of Cosenza, is home to 2 Belgians — 0.05% of its 4,066 residents. That is the 492nd-highest concentration of Belgians of any of the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents, and 16th within Calabria.

Across the nationalities we track, Dipignano counts 8 foreign residents in total, 0.20% of the population. The largest groups are Belgians (2), Brazilians (2), Russians (2).

Over the period 2019–2025, the number of Belgians in Dipignano has risen, from 0 to 2.

Separately, ISTAT's census data shows 7.1% of Dipignano's population was born outside Italy — 4.3% outside the EU and 2.8% elsewhere in the EU. ISTAT does not publish this broken down by specific country at comune level, so it isn't directly comparable to the per-nationality citizenship figures above.

Population over time

20022025. ISTAT’s intercensal population reconstruction (2002–2018) and resident-population registry (2019 onward).

By nationality

NationalityCitizensShare
Belgium20.05%
Brazil20.05%
Russia20.05%
Germany10.02%
United Kingdom10.02%
Argentina00.00%
Austria00.00%
Australia00.00%
Canada00.00%
Switzerland00.00%
Denmark00.00%
Spain00.00%
Finland00.00%
France00.00%
Greece00.00%
Ireland00.00%
Japan00.00%
South Korea00.00%
Mexico00.00%
Netherlands00.00%
Norway00.00%
Portugal00.00%
Sweden00.00%
United States00.00%
Venezuela00.00%

“Citizens” counts residents holding that country’s citizenship, from ISTAT’s population registry.

Country of birth

GroupResidentsShare
Born in Italy3,77992.94%
Born elsewhere in the EU1132.78%
Born outside the EU1744.28%

From ISTAT’s census data. Broad groups only — ISTAT does not publish comune-level population by specific country of birth, so this isn’t comparable per-nationality to the citizenship table above. See about the data.

Belgians over time

Quality of life in Cosenza

Province-level well-being (BES), by domain — percentile rank against Italy’s other provinces. Higher is always better here, regardless of the underlying indicator’s direction.

Environment76
Safety43
Education and training42
Quality of services22
Social relationships18
Landscape and cultural heritage16
Economic well-being12
Health6
Work and life balance5

Full BES profile for CosenzaCosenza on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →

Tax regimes

Dipignano 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 →

This lists the regimes we’ve published. Others exist that we haven’t encoded yet — we add one only once it has been checked against the legislation — so this isn’t a complete account of what might apply to you.

Property prices

To buy

775 /

To rent

2.88 /m²/month

About the Cosenza average of €795/m². Averaged across 2 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.

Buy or rent

22.4 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.

House or apartment

A detached house here averages 945/m², against €775 for an apartment.

Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighbourhood — a house costs 9% more per square metre.

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 metre, but in 450 comuni it costs less — worth checking rather than assuming.

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Agenzia delle Entrate — Osservatorio del Mercato Immobiliare (OMI), semester 2025 H2. Figures are midpoints of OMI’s surveyed ranges for “Abitazioni civili” in normal condition — a guide to the market, not a valuation of any particular property. Source.

Nearby comuni

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