Foreign residents in Gamberale

Chieti, Abruzzo · Population 266 · Median age 51 · Indice di vecchiaia 375 (2019)

Data as of 2026-08-09· ISTAT

Gamberale, in the province of Chieti, is home to 1 Swiss nationals — 0.38% of its 266 residents. That is notable for a comune of its size.

Across the nationalities we track, Gamberale counts 2 foreign residents in total, 0.75% of the population. The largest groups are Swiss nationals (1), Britons (1).

Over the period 2019–2025, the number of Swiss nationals in Gamberale has risen, from 0 to 1.

Separately, ISTAT's census data shows 3.8% of Gamberale's population was born outside Italy — 3.8% outside the EU and 0.0% 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
Switzerland10.38%
United Kingdom10.38%
Argentina00.00%
Austria00.00%
Australia00.00%
Belgium00.00%
Brazil00.00%
Canada00.00%
Germany00.00%
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%
Russia00.00%
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 Italy25696.24%
Born elsewhere in the EU00.00%
Born outside the EU103.76%

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.

Swiss nationals over time

Quality of life in Chieti

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.

Education and training82
Quality of services64
Environment53
Health44
Economic well-being36
Social relationships35
Work and life balance35
Safety32
Landscape and cultural heritage22

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

Tax regimes

Gamberale 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

463 /

To rent

1.85 /m²/month

Buying in Gamberale is far below the Chieti average of €905/m². Averaged across 2 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.

Buy or rent

20.8 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 588/m², against €463 for an apartment.

Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighbourhood — a house costs 27% 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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