€525per m² to buy, residentialOMI · 2025H2 · comune
1,554residents at the last countISTAT · comune
3.28%hold a foreign citizenshipISTAT · citizenship
0.13%hold one of the 25 citizenships we follow most closelyISTAT · citizenship
7% pensioner regime appliesSee the eligibility belowOur curation · comune
Price, against every other comune · cheaper ← → dearercheaper than 85% of comuni

All things you need to know about living in Librizzi

Messina, Sicilia · Population 1,554 · Median age 50 · Indice di vecchiaia 263.3 (2019)

Data as of 2026-10-12· ISTAT

The well-being figures below are for the province, not the town. The rest of this page is comune-level.

Librizzi, in the province of Messina, is home to 8 Czechs: 0.51% of its 1,554 residents.

That is the 1st-highest concentration of Czechs among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.

Within Sicilia it ranks 1st.

ISTAT counts 51 residents with a foreign citizenship in Librizzi, 3.28% of the population. Among the nationalities we follow most closely, the two groups are Argentinians (1) and Swiss nationals (1).

Librizzi qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime.

On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Messina scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for burglaries reported and medical specialists.

It scores in the bottom quarter for urban green and life expectancy at birth.

These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.

Summers average a high of 29.7°C (85°F) and winters a low of 6.2°C (43°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.

Librizzi sees about 34 days a year above 30°C (86°F).

It gets about 899mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 123 days.

These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.

OMI puts residential purchase prices in Librizzi at about €525 per square meter in the second half of 2025.

Librizzi population over time

Dashed line: no annual figure for 2020–2024.

2002–2025. ISTAT’s intercensal population reconstruction (2002–2018) and resident-population registry (2019 onward).

By nationality

NationalityCitizensShare
Romania191.22%
Czechia80.51%
Ukraine30.19%
Albania10.06%
Argentina10.06%
Switzerland10.06%
Poland10.06%
Austria00.00%
Australia00.00%
Belgium00.00%
Bulgaria00.00%
Brazil00.00%
Canada00.00%
Cyprus00.00%
Germany00.00%
Denmark00.00%
Estonia00.00%
Spain00.00%
Finland00.00%
France00.00%
United Kingdom00.00%
Greece00.00%
Croatia00.00%
Hungary00.00%
Ireland00.00%
Japan00.00%
South Korea00.00%
Lithuania00.00%
Luxembourg00.00%
Latvia00.00%
Malta00.00%
Mexico00.00%
Netherlands00.00%
Norway00.00%
Portugal00.00%
Russia00.00%
Sweden00.00%
Slovenia00.00%
Slovakia00.00%
United States00.00%
Venezuela00.00%

“Citizens” counts residents holding that country’s citizenship, from ISTAT’s population registry.

Country of birth

GroupResidentsShare
Born in Italy1,45093.31%
Born elsewhere in the EU533.41%
Born outside the EU513.28%

From ISTAT’s census data. Broad groups only — ISTAT does not publish comune-level population by specific country of birth, so this isn’t comparable per-nationality to the citizenship table above. See about the data.

Czechs over time

Quality of life in Messina

Province-level well-being (BES), by domain — percentile rank against Italy’s other provinces. Higher is always better here, regardless of the underlying indicator’s direction.

Quality of services81
Landscape and cultural heritage71
Safety65
Social relationships49
Economic well-being29
Environment29
Education and training10
Work and life balance9
Health6

Full BES profile for Messina →Messina on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →

Tax regimes

Librizzi 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 →

This lists the regimes we’ve published. Others exist that we haven’t encoded yet — we add one only once it has been checked against the legislation — so this isn’t a complete account of what might apply to you.

Property prices

To buy

€525 /m²

To rent

€2.00 /m²/month

Buying in Librizzi is well below the Messina average of €941/m². Based on a single OMI micro-zone, so it describes the town as one market.

Buy or rent

21.9 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.

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Agenzia delle Entrate — Osservatorio del Mercato Immobiliare (OMI), semester 2025 H2. Figures are midpoints of OMI’s surveyed ranges for “Abitazioni civili” in normal condition — a guide to the market, not a valuation of any particular property. Source.

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