All things you need to know about living in Maida
Maida, in the province of Catanzaro, is home to 275 Bulgarians: 6.10% of its 4,511 residents.
That is the 4th-highest concentration of Bulgarians among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Calabria it ranks 1st.
ISTAT counts 562 residents with a foreign citizenship in Maida, 12.46% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Brazilians (21), Argentinians (9), Spaniards (6).
That is above the national average for an Italian comune, which is 7.30%.
Maida qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Catanzaro scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for hospital beds in high-care wards and medical specialists.
It scores in the bottom quarter for density and importance of museums' heritage and employment rate (20-64 years old).
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 29.1°C (84°F) and winters a low of 6.8°C (44°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Maida sees about 28 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 990mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 136 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
Maida population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Bulgaria | 275 | 6.10% |
| Romania | 103 | 2.28% |
| Brazil | 21 | 0.47% |
| Ukraine | 13 | 0.29% |
| Argentina | 9 | 0.20% |
| Spain | 6 | 0.13% |
| Poland | 4 | 0.09% |
| Portugal | 3 | 0.07% |
| United States | 3 | 0.07% |
| Venezuela | 3 | 0.07% |
| Finland | 2 | 0.04% |
| France | 2 | 0.04% |
| Russia | 2 | 0.04% |
| Germany | 1 | 0.02% |
| Croatia | 1 | 0.02% |
| Mexico | 1 | 0.02% |
| Albania | 0 | 0.00% |
| Austria | 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% |
| United Kingdom | 0 | 0.00% |
| Greece | 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% |
| Netherlands | 0 | 0.00% |
| Norway | 0 | 0.00% |
| Sweden | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovenia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovakia | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 3,780 | 83.80% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 355 | 7.87% |
| Born outside the EU | 376 | 8.34% |
Bulgarians over time
Quality of life in Catanzaro
Full BES profile for Catanzaro →Catanzaro on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Tax regimes
Maida 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 Maida is well below the Catanzaro average of €794/m². Averaged across 5 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
26.9 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.
A detached house here averages €629/m², against €585 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 15% 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.
Nearby comuni
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