All things you need to know about living in Grado
Grado, in the province of Gorizia, is home to 27 Austrians: 0.36% of its 7,532 residents.
That is the 45th-highest concentration of Austrians among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Friuli-Venezia Giulia it ranks 5th.
ISTAT counts 536 residents with a foreign citizenship in Grado, 7.12% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Austrians (27), Germans (14), Argentinians (9).
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Gorizia scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for nonprofit organizations and urban green.
It scores in the bottom quarter for hospital beds in high-care wards and intentional homicide rate.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 27.8°C (82°F) and winters a low of 2.4°C (36°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Grado sees about 13 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 1,416mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 121 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Grado at about €2,161 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
At those figures, buying costs about 23.4 years of renting the same property.
Grado population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 59 | 0.78% |
| Ukraine | 45 | 0.60% |
| Austria | 27 | 0.36% |
| Hungary | 25 | 0.33% |
| Croatia | 20 | 0.27% |
| Poland | 16 | 0.21% |
| Albania | 15 | 0.20% |
| Slovakia | 15 | 0.20% |
| Germany | 14 | 0.19% |
| Argentina | 9 | 0.12% |
| Russia | 9 | 0.12% |
| Brazil | 6 | 0.08% |
| Czechia | 6 | 0.08% |
| Bulgaria | 3 | 0.04% |
| Slovenia | 3 | 0.04% |
| United States | 3 | 0.04% |
| Spain | 2 | 0.03% |
| France | 2 | 0.03% |
| Mexico | 2 | 0.03% |
| Australia | 1 | 0.01% |
| Belgium | 1 | 0.01% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 0.01% |
| Estonia | 1 | 0.01% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 0.01% |
| Ireland | 1 | 0.01% |
| Japan | 1 | 0.01% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 0.01% |
| Portugal | 1 | 0.01% |
| Canada | 0 | 0.00% |
| Cyprus | 0 | 0.00% |
| Denmark | 0 | 0.00% |
| Finland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Greece | 0 | 0.00% |
| South Korea | 0 | 0.00% |
| Lithuania | 0 | 0.00% |
| Luxembourg | 0 | 0.00% |
| Latvia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Malta | 0 | 0.00% |
| Norway | 0 | 0.00% |
| Sweden | 0 | 0.00% |
| Venezuela | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 6,743 | 89.52% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 265 | 3.52% |
| Born outside the EU | 524 | 6.96% |
Austrians over time
Quality of life in Gorizia
Full BES profile for Gorizia →Gorizia on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Property prices
Buying in Grado is far above the Gorizia average of €941/m². Averaged across 7 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
23.4 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.
Housing here in excellent condition costs 35% more than ordinary condition — €2,908/m² against €2,161.
That gap is what the market charges for a place you don’t have to work on. It is not what the work would cost you — OMI prices property, not builders.
A detached house here averages €1,782/m², against €2,161 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 13% less 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
Grado is in seismic zone 3. Of the four zones, zone 1 is the highest hazard and zone 4 the lowest. The Department of Civil Protection describes zone 3 as a zone where strong earthquakes are less likely than in zones 1 and 2.
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: PO Gorizia e Monfalcone sede Monfalcone, about 24.5 km / 26 minutes by road from Grado (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: PO Gorizia e Monfalcone sede Monfalcone (DEA level I), about 24.5 km / 26 minutes by road from Grado (the main town).
Nearest airport: Trieste Airport (TRS), about 22.8 km / 24 minutes by road from Grado (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Despar, about 0.5 km / 1 minute by road from Grado (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Succursale Estiva Madonna Di Barbana Della Dr.ssa Ledri & C. Snc, about 0.7 km / 1 minute by road from Grado (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Cervignano - Aquileia - Grado, about 19 km / 20 minutes by road from Grado (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 Grado, 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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