All things you need to know about living in Melito Irpino
Melito Irpino, in the province of Avellino, is home to 2 Swiss nationals: 0.11% of its 1,769 residents.
That is the 212th-highest concentration of Swiss nationals among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Campania it ranks 1st.
That puts Melito Irpino in the bottom ten percent of Italian comuni for foreign residents. Anyone moving here should expect to be unusual.
These are small numbers, so we would not read much into the percentage or any change in it.
Melito Irpino qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Avellino scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for electricity from renewable sources.
It scores in the bottom quarter for density and importance of museums' heritage 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 31.9°C (89°F) and winters a low of 3.0°C (37°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Melito Irpino sees about 54 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 939mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 129 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
Melito Irpino population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Ukraine | 7 | 0.40% |
| Bulgaria | 5 | 0.28% |
| Romania | 4 | 0.23% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 0.11% |
| France | 1 | 0.06% |
| Albania | 0 | 0.00% |
| Argentina | 0 | 0.00% |
| Austria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Belgium | 0 | 0.00% |
| Brazil | 0 | 0.00% |
| Canada | 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% |
| Poland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Portugal | 0 | 0.00% |
| Russia | 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 | 1,671 | 94.46% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 23 | 1.30% |
| Born outside the EU | 75 | 4.24% |
Swiss nationals over time
Quality of life in Avellino
Full BES profile for Avellino →Avellino on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Tax regimes
Melito Irpino 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 Irpino is well below the Avellino average of €693/m². Averaged across 2 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
19.1 years of rent here equal the purchase price — below 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 20% more than ordinary condition — €544/m² against €454.
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 €498/m², against €454 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 10% 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 Irpino 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: Casa di Cura Villa Maria, about 9.1 km / 10 minutes by road from Melito Irpino (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Ospedale Ariano Irpino (DEA level I), about 10.3 km / 11 minutes by road from Melito Irpino (the main town).
Nearest airport: Foggia Gino Lisa Airport (FOG), about 87 km / 64 minutes by road from Melito Irpino (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Maxi Futura, about 5.5 km / 7 minutes by road from Melito Irpino (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Belmonte Di Dott.sse Belmonte S. Ed E. Snc, about 3.2 km / 5 minutes by road from Melito Irpino (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Ariano Irpino, about 16.1 km / 16 minutes by road from Melito Irpino (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 Irpino, 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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