All things you need to know about living in Melito di Porto Salvo
Melito di Porto Salvo, in the province of Reggio Calabria, is home to 12 French nationals: 0.12% of its 10,387 residents.
That is the 531st-highest concentration of French nationals among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Calabria it ranks 18th.
ISTAT counts 849 residents with a foreign citizenship in Melito di Porto Salvo, 8.17% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are French nationals (12), Britons (3), Argentinians (2).
That is above the national average for an Italian comune, which is 7.30%.
Melito di Porto Salvo qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Reggio Calabria scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for burglaries reported.
It scores in the bottom quarter for employment rate (20-64 years old) and average disposable income per capita.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 30.1°C (86°F) and winters a low of 6.7°C (44°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Melito di Porto Salvo sees about 35 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 667mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 99 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
Melito di Porto Salvo population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 165 | 1.59% |
| Ukraine | 45 | 0.43% |
| France | 12 | 0.12% |
| Poland | 11 | 0.11% |
| Albania | 3 | 0.03% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 0.03% |
| Argentina | 2 | 0.02% |
| Brazil | 2 | 0.02% |
| Germany | 2 | 0.02% |
| Belgium | 1 | 0.01% |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 0.01% |
| Czechia | 1 | 0.01% |
| Spain | 1 | 0.01% |
| Finland | 1 | 0.01% |
| Malta | 1 | 0.01% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 0.01% |
| Russia | 1 | 0.01% |
| Slovakia | 1 | 0.01% |
| Austria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Canada | 0 | 0.00% |
| Switzerland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Cyprus | 0 | 0.00% |
| Denmark | 0 | 0.00% |
| Estonia | 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% |
| Mexico | 0 | 0.00% |
| Norway | 0 | 0.00% |
| Portugal | 0 | 0.00% |
| Sweden | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovenia | 0 | 0.00% |
| United States | 0 | 0.00% |
| Venezuela | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 9,393 | 90.43% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 295 | 2.84% |
| Born outside the EU | 699 | 6.73% |
French nationals over time
Quality of life in Reggio di Calabria
Full BES profile for Reggio di Calabria →Reggio di Calabria on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Tax regimes
Melito di Porto Salvo 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 Melito di Porto Salvo is above the Reggio Calabria average of €691/m². Averaged across 3 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
21.4 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.
A detached house here averages €768/m², against €750 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 16% 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
Melito di Porto Salvo 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: Ospedale 'Tiberio Evoli' - Melito P.S., about 0.8 km / 2 minutes by road from Melito di Porto Salvo (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Ospedale 'Tiberio Evoli' - Melito P.S., Melito di Porto Salvo (Pronto Soccorso), about 0.8 km / 2 minutes by road from Melito di Porto Salvo (the main town).
Nearest DEA (level I or II): Presidio Ospedaliero Riuniti, Reggio di Calabria (DEA level II), about 33 km / 33 minutes by road from Melito di Porto Salvo (the main town).
Nearest airport: Reggio Calabria Airport (REG), about 27.7 km / 26 minutes by road from Melito di Porto Salvo (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Supermecato Carrefour Market, about 0.6 km / 1 minute by road from Melito di Porto Salvo (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Galenica Medicamenta, about 1.6 km / 3 minutes by road from Melito di Porto Salvo (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Melito di Porto Salvo, about 0.8 km / 2 minutes by road from Melito di Porto Salvo (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 Melito di Porto Salvo, 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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