All things you need to know about living in Montechiarugolo
Montechiarugolo, in the province of Parma, is home to 11 Russians: 0.10% of its 11,356 residents.
That is the 1010th-highest concentration of Russians among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Emilia-Romagna it ranks 81st.
ISTAT counts 1,266 residents with a foreign citizenship in Montechiarugolo, 11.15% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Russians (11), Argentinians (7), Brazilians (5).
That is above the national average for an Italian comune, which is 7.30%.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Parma scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for hospital beds in high-care wards and average disposable income per capita.
It scores in the bottom quarter for burglaries reported.
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 0.0°C (32°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Montechiarugolo sees about 41 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 1,000mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 118 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Montechiarugolo at about €1,331 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
Montechiarugolo population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 257 | 2.26% |
| Albania | 125 | 1.10% |
| Ukraine | 67 | 0.59% |
| Poland | 12 | 0.11% |
| Russia | 11 | 0.10% |
| Argentina | 7 | 0.06% |
| Brazil | 5 | 0.04% |
| Spain | 5 | 0.04% |
| France | 4 | 0.04% |
| Netherlands | 3 | 0.03% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 0.02% |
| Austria | 1 | 0.01% |
| Belgium | 1 | 0.01% |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 0.01% |
| Czechia | 1 | 0.01% |
| Germany | 1 | 0.01% |
| Lithuania | 1 | 0.01% |
| Venezuela | 1 | 0.01% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Canada | 0 | 0.00% |
| Switzerland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Cyprus | 0 | 0.00% |
| Denmark | 0 | 0.00% |
| Estonia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Finland | 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% |
| Luxembourg | 0 | 0.00% |
| Latvia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Malta | 0 | 0.00% |
| Mexico | 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% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 9,669 | 85.14% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 220 | 1.94% |
| Born outside the EU | 1,467 | 12.92% |
Russians over time
Quality of life in Parma
Full BES profile for Parma →Parma on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Property prices
Buying in Montechiarugolo is above the Parma average of €1,230/m². Averaged across 4 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
20.9 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.
Housing here in excellent condition costs 25% more than ordinary condition — €1,659/m² against €1,331.
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 €2,100/m², against €1,331 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 43% 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
Montechiarugolo is in seismic zone 3. Of the four zones, zone 1 is the highest hazard and zone 4 the lowest. The Department of Civil Protection describes zone 3 as a zone where strong earthquakes are less likely than in zones 1 and 2.
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.
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Nearest hospital: Ospedale "e.Franchini" Montecchio, about 4.3 km / 6 minutes by road from Montechiarugolo (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Ospedale e.Franchini Montecchio, Montecchio Emilia (Pronto Soccorso), about 4.3 km / 6 minutes by road from Montechiarugolo (the main town).
Nearest DEA (level I or II): Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova di Reggio, Reggio nell'Emilia (DEA level II), about 19.9 km / 24 minutes by road from Montechiarugolo (the main town).
Nearest airport: Parma Airport (PMF), about 22.9 km / 22 minutes by road from Montechiarugolo (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): SIGMA, about 2.7 km / 4 minutes by road from Montechiarugolo (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Barbieri Silvia Snc, about 2.8 km / 4 minutes by road from Montechiarugolo (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Bivio Barco, about 7 km / 8 minutes by road from Montechiarugolo (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 Montechiarugolo, 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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