All things you need to know about living in Gavoi
Gavoi, in the province of Nuoro, is home to 4 Argentinians: 0.16% of its 2,432 residents.
That is the 258th-highest concentration of Argentinians among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Sardegna it ranks 5th.
ISTAT counts 44 residents with a foreign citizenship in Gavoi, 1.81% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Argentinians (4), Australians (1), Britons (1).
That puts Gavoi in the bottom ten percent of Italian comuni for foreign residents. Anyone moving here should expect to be unusual.
Gavoi qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Nuoro scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for burglaries reported and electricity from renewable sources.
It scores in the bottom quarter for intentional homicide rate and people with at least upper secondary education level (25-64 years old).
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 31.7°C (89°F) and winters a low of 3.0°C (37°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Gavoi sees about 52 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 647mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 100 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
Gavoi population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 11 | 0.45% |
| Ukraine | 5 | 0.21% |
| Argentina | 4 | 0.16% |
| Albania | 3 | 0.12% |
| Australia | 1 | 0.04% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 0.04% |
| 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% |
| France | 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 | 2,358 | 96.96% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 22 | 0.90% |
| Born outside the EU | 52 | 2.14% |
Argentinians over time
Quality of life in Nuoro
Full BES profile for Nuoro →Nuoro on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Tax regimes
Gavoi 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 →Seismic zone
Gavoi is in seismic zone 4. Of the four zones, zone 1 is the highest hazard and zone 4 the lowest. The Department of Civil Protection describes zone 4 as the lowest-hazard zone, where a strong earthquake is very unlikely.
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: P.O. C. Zonchello, about 29.6 km / 29 minutes by road from Gavoi (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: P.O. San Francesco, Nuoro (DEA level I), about 30.1 km / 29 minutes by road from Gavoi (the main town).
Nearest airport: Olbia Costa Smeralda Airport (OLB), about 123.6 km / 94 minutes by road from Gavoi (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Supermarket, about 0.5 km / 1 minute by road from Gavoi (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Eredi Mellino Igino Salvatore, about 3.9 km / 5 minutes by road from Gavoi (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Oniferi, about 28 km / 27 minutes by road from Gavoi (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 Gavoi, 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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