All things you need to know about living in Imola
Imola, in the province of Bologna, is home to 62 Russians: 0.09% of its 69,403 residents.
That is the 1147th-highest concentration of Russians among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Emilia-Romagna it ranks 94th.
ISTAT counts 7,309 residents with a foreign citizenship in Imola, 10.53% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Russians (62), Brazilians (47), Spaniards (35).
That is above the national average for an Italian comune, which is 7.30%.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Bologna scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for people with at least upper secondary education level (25-64 years old) and average disposable income per capita.
It scores in the bottom quarter for burglaries reported and electricity from renewable sources.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 31.6°C (89°F) and winters a low of 1.0°C (34°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Imola sees about 56 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 873mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 110 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Imola at about €1,544 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
Imola population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 2,055 | 2.96% |
| Albania | 1,059 | 1.53% |
| Ukraine | 551 | 0.79% |
| Poland | 181 | 0.26% |
| Russia | 62 | 0.09% |
| Brazil | 47 | 0.07% |
| Spain | 35 | 0.05% |
| Bulgaria | 26 | 0.04% |
| Argentina | 21 | 0.03% |
| Germany | 20 | 0.03% |
| France | 20 | 0.03% |
| Greece | 20 | 0.03% |
| United Kingdom | 19 | 0.03% |
| Lithuania | 14 | 0.02% |
| Venezuela | 14 | 0.02% |
| Croatia | 13 | 0.02% |
| Hungary | 12 | 0.02% |
| Belgium | 8 | 0.01% |
| Mexico | 7 | 0.01% |
| Austria | 6 | 0.01% |
| Ireland | 5 | 0.01% |
| Portugal | 5 | 0.01% |
| Czechia | 4 | 0.01% |
| Netherlands | 4 | 0.01% |
| United States | 4 | 0.01% |
| Japan | 3 | 0.00% |
| Latvia | 3 | 0.00% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 0.00% |
| Denmark | 2 | 0.00% |
| Finland | 2 | 0.00% |
| Canada | 1 | 0.00% |
| Cyprus | 1 | 0.00% |
| Estonia | 1 | 0.00% |
| Malta | 1 | 0.00% |
| Slovenia | 1 | 0.00% |
| Slovakia | 1 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| South Korea | 0 | 0.00% |
| Luxembourg | 0 | 0.00% |
| Norway | 0 | 0.00% |
| Sweden | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 60,309 | 86.90% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 2,472 | 3.56% |
| Born outside the EU | 6,622 | 9.54% |
Russians over time
Quality of life in Bologna
Full BES profile for Bologna →Bologna on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Property prices
Buying in Imola is well below the Bologna average of €2,143/m². Averaged across 9 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
18.1 years of rent here equal the purchase price — below 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 27% more than ordinary condition — €1,955/m² against €1,544.
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 €1,371/m², against €1,544 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 6% 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
Imola 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: Ospedale Civile Nuovo "s.Maria della Sca, about 2.6 km / 5 minutes by road from Imola (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Ospedale Civile Nuovo S.Maria della Scal, Imola (DEA level I), about 2.6 km / 5 minutes by road from Imola (the main town).
Nearest airport: Forlì-Luigi Ridolfi International Airport (FRL), about 43.8 km / 30 minutes by road from Imola (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Famila, about 1.5 km / 3 minutes by road from Imola (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Comunale Michelangelo, about 0.8 km / 2 minutes by road from Imola (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Imola, about 2.2 km / 4 minutes by road from Imola (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 Imola, 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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