All things you need to know about living in Grottammare
Grottammare, in the province of Ascoli Piceno, is home to 28 Russians: 0.18% of its 15,924 residents.
That is the 344th-highest concentration of Russians among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Marche it ranks 19th.
ISTAT counts 984 residents with a foreign citizenship in Grottammare, 6.18% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Russians (28), Argentinians (19), Brazilians (16).
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Ascoli Piceno scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for PM10 Annual average concentration and people with at least upper secondary education level (25-64 years old).
It scores in the bottom quarter for hospital beds in high-care wards and urban green.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 27.9°C (82°F) and winters a low of 3.6°C (38°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Grottammare sees about 11 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 808mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 114 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Grottammare at about €1,672 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
At those figures, buying costs about 20.2 years of renting the same property.
Grottammare population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Albania | 224 | 1.41% |
| Romania | 130 | 0.82% |
| Ukraine | 40 | 0.25% |
| Poland | 39 | 0.24% |
| Russia | 28 | 0.18% |
| Argentina | 19 | 0.12% |
| Bulgaria | 16 | 0.10% |
| Brazil | 16 | 0.10% |
| Venezuela | 10 | 0.06% |
| Germany | 8 | 0.05% |
| Netherlands | 7 | 0.04% |
| Slovakia | 7 | 0.04% |
| Spain | 6 | 0.04% |
| France | 4 | 0.03% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 0.02% |
| Japan | 3 | 0.02% |
| Canada | 2 | 0.01% |
| Croatia | 2 | 0.01% |
| Portugal | 2 | 0.01% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 0.01% |
| Czechia | 1 | 0.01% |
| Greece | 1 | 0.01% |
| Lithuania | 1 | 0.01% |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 0.01% |
| Sweden | 1 | 0.01% |
| Austria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Belgium | 0 | 0.00% |
| Cyprus | 0 | 0.00% |
| Denmark | 0 | 0.00% |
| Estonia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Finland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Hungary | 0 | 0.00% |
| Ireland | 0 | 0.00% |
| South Korea | 0 | 0.00% |
| Latvia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Malta | 0 | 0.00% |
| Mexico | 0 | 0.00% |
| Norway | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovenia | 0 | 0.00% |
| United States | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 14,256 | 89.53% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 387 | 2.43% |
| Born outside the EU | 1,281 | 8.04% |
Russians over time
Quality of life in Ascoli Piceno
Full BES profile for Ascoli Piceno →Ascoli Piceno on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Property prices
Buying in Grottammare is well above the Ascoli Piceno average of €1,273/m². Averaged across 6 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
20.2 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 51% more than ordinary condition — €2,526/m² against €1,672.
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 €1,672/m², against €1,672 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — the two cost about the same 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
Grottammare is in seismic zone 2. Of the four zones, zone 1 is the highest hazard and zone 4 the lowest. The Department of Civil Protection describes zone 2 as a zone where strong earthquakes are possible.
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: Stabilimento di S.Benedetto, about 5.4 km / 6 minutes by road from Grottammare (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Stabilimento di S.Benedetto, San Benedetto del Tronto (DEA level I), about 5.4 km / 6 minutes by road from Grottammare (the main town).
Nearest airport: Abruzzo Airport (PSR), about 86.3 km / 47 minutes by road from Grottammare (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): SuperCoal, about 1.1 km / 2 minutes by road from Grottammare (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Giacinti di Giacinti Nello e Giulia S.N.C., about 1.6 km / 2 minutes by road from Grottammare (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Grottammare, about 0.6 km / 1 minute by road from Grottammare (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 Grottammare, 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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