All things you need to know about living in Isola del Giglio
Isola del Giglio, in the province of Grosseto, is home to 10 Germans: 0.79% of its 1,271 residents.
That is the 113th-highest concentration of Germans among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Toscana it ranks 16th.
ISTAT counts 145 residents with a foreign citizenship in Isola del Giglio, 11.41% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Germans (10), Britons (4), French nationals (2).
That is above the national average for an Italian comune, which is 7.30%.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Grosseto scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for electricity from renewable sources and nonprofit organizations.
It scores in the bottom quarter for burglaries reported.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 28.3°C (83°F) and winters a low of 7.6°C (46°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Isola del Giglio sees about 13 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 782mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 93 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Isola del Giglio at about €2,415 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
Isola del Giglio population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Albania | 35 | 2.75% |
| Romania | 28 | 2.20% |
| Germany | 10 | 0.79% |
| Poland | 10 | 0.79% |
| Ukraine | 6 | 0.47% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 0.31% |
| France | 2 | 0.16% |
| Slovakia | 2 | 0.16% |
| Austria | 1 | 0.08% |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 0.08% |
| Brazil | 1 | 0.08% |
| Greece | 1 | 0.08% |
| Lithuania | 1 | 0.08% |
| Russia | 1 | 0.08% |
| United States | 1 | 0.08% |
| Argentina | 0 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Belgium | 0 | 0.00% |
| Canada | 0 | 0.00% |
| Switzerland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Cyprus | 0 | 0.00% |
| Czechia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Denmark | 0 | 0.00% |
| Estonia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Spain | 0 | 0.00% |
| Finland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Croatia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Hungary | 0 | 0.00% |
| Ireland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Japan | 0 | 0.00% |
| South Korea | 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% |
| Portugal | 0 | 0.00% |
| Sweden | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovenia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Venezuela | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 1,080 | 84.97% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 62 | 4.88% |
| Born outside the EU | 129 | 10.15% |
Germans over time
Quality of life in Grosseto
Full BES profile for Grosseto →Grosseto on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Property prices
Buying in Isola del Giglio is well above the Grosseto average of €1,662/m². Averaged across 5 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
25.6 years of rent here equal the purchase price — above 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 58% more than ordinary condition — €3,825/m² against €2,415.
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 €3,770/m², against €2,415 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 56% more 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
Isola del Giglio 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.
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Nearest hospital: no figure. We could not find a road route to a hospital with inpatient beds that avoids a ferry.
Nearest emergency department: no figure. We could not find a road route to an emergency department in the Ministry's list that avoids a ferry.
Nearest DEA (level I or II): no figure. We could not find a road route to a DEA in the Ministry's list that avoids a ferry.
Nearest airport: no figure. We could not find a road route to an airport that avoids a ferry.
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Anna e Gino Alimentari, about 9.5 km / 14 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Apotek S.R.L., about 0 km / 1 minute by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): no figure. We could not find a road route to a railway station with passenger service that avoids a ferry.
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 Isola del Giglio, 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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