All things you need to know about living in Leonessa
Leonessa, in the province of Rieti, is home to 1 French nationals: 0.05% of its 2,051 residents.
That is the 1688th-highest concentration of French nationals among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Lazio it ranks 110th.
ISTAT counts 154 residents with a foreign citizenship in Leonessa, 7.51% of the population. Among the nationalities we follow most closely, the two groups are French nationals (1) and Russians (1).
That is above the national average for an Italian comune, which is 7.30%.
Leonessa qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Rieti scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for urban green and nonprofit organizations.
It scores in the bottom quarter for density and importance of museums' heritage and road mortality in non-urban roads.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 26.1°C (79°F) and winters a low of -1.5°C (29°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Leonessa sees about 7 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 1,038mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 139 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
Leonessa population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 92 | 4.49% |
| Albania | 9 | 0.44% |
| Ukraine | 5 | 0.24% |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 0.05% |
| France | 1 | 0.05% |
| Poland | 1 | 0.05% |
| Russia | 1 | 0.05% |
| Argentina | 0 | 0.00% |
| Austria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Belgium | 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% |
| United Kingdom | 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% |
| Portugal | 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 | 1,883 | 91.81% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 89 | 4.34% |
| Born outside the EU | 79 | 3.85% |
French nationals over time
Quality of life in Rieti
Full BES profile for Rieti →Rieti on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Tax regimes
Leonessa 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 →Property prices
Buying in Leonessa is below the Rieti average of €916/m². Based on a single OMI micro-zone, so it describes the town as one market. OMI records no rental figures here.
A detached house here averages €1,125/m², against €800 for an apartment.
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
Leonessa is in seismic zone 1. Of the four zones, zone 1 is the highest hazard and zone 4 the lowest. The Department of Civil Protection describes zone 1 as the highest-hazard zone, where strong earthquakes are likely over the long run.
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: Azienda Ospedaliera 'S. Maria' - Terni, about 45.4 km / 40 minutes by road from Leonessa (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Polo Ospedaliero Unico Integrato, Rieti (DEA level I), about 43.2 km / 37 minutes by road from Leonessa (the main town).
Nearest airport: Perugia San Francesco d'Assisi – Umbria International Airport (PEG), about 95.3 km / 75 minutes by road from Leonessa (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Alimentari, about 18.2 km / 15 minutes by road from Leonessa (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Giampaoli dei Dr.I Paolo e Maria Cristina Snc, about 4.6 km / 4 minutes by road from Leonessa (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Antrodoco Centro, about 32.7 km / 27 minutes by road from Leonessa (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 Leonessa, 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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