All things you need to know about living in Norcia
Norcia, in the province of Perugia, is home to 8 Americans: 0.18% of its 4,457 residents.
That is the 147th-highest concentration of Americans among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Umbria it ranks 21st.
ISTAT counts 406 residents with a foreign citizenship in Norcia, 9.11% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Americans (8), Austrians (4), Germans (4).
That is above the national average for an Italian comune, which is 7.30%.
Norcia qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Perugia scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for people with at least upper secondary education level (25-64 years old) and nonprofit organizations.
It scores in the bottom quarter for hospital beds in high-care wards and 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 26.1°C (79°F) and winters a low of -1.5°C (29°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Norcia sees about 8 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 1,096mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 148 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
Norcia population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 65 | 1.46% |
| Ukraine | 19 | 0.43% |
| Albania | 16 | 0.36% |
| Poland | 13 | 0.29% |
| Bulgaria | 10 | 0.22% |
| United States | 8 | 0.18% |
| Austria | 4 | 0.09% |
| Germany | 4 | 0.09% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 0.07% |
| Canada | 1 | 0.02% |
| Denmark | 1 | 0.02% |
| France | 1 | 0.02% |
| Croatia | 1 | 0.02% |
| Ireland | 1 | 0.02% |
| Latvia | 1 | 0.02% |
| Portugal | 1 | 0.02% |
| Slovenia | 1 | 0.02% |
| Slovakia | 1 | 0.02% |
| Argentina | 0 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Belgium | 0 | 0.00% |
| Brazil | 0 | 0.00% |
| Switzerland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Cyprus | 0 | 0.00% |
| Czechia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Estonia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Spain | 0 | 0.00% |
| Finland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Greece | 0 | 0.00% |
| Hungary | 0 | 0.00% |
| Japan | 0 | 0.00% |
| South Korea | 0 | 0.00% |
| Lithuania | 0 | 0.00% |
| Luxembourg | 0 | 0.00% |
| Malta | 0 | 0.00% |
| Mexico | 0 | 0.00% |
| Netherlands | 0 | 0.00% |
| Norway | 0 | 0.00% |
| Russia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Sweden | 0 | 0.00% |
| Venezuela | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 3,958 | 88.80% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 125 | 2.80% |
| Born outside the EU | 374 | 8.39% |
Americans over time
Quality of life in Perugia
Full BES profile for Perugia →Perugia on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Tax regimes
Norcia 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
OMI records no market value for Norcia. Agenzia delle Entrate surveys the town and returns a price of zero for every zone — which means there is no functioning residential market to price, not that property here is cheap.
Norcia is one of sixteen comuni in this position. Fifteen are in the belt destroyed by the 2016 Central Italy earthquake; the sixteenth, Gibellina, was destroyed in 1968. We publish the absence rather than a zero, because a zero would rank the most devastated towns in Italy as its cheapest.
Seismic zone
Norcia 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 Civile San Matteo Degli Infermi, about 44.7 km / 44 minutes by road from Norcia (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Ospedale Civile di Norcia (Pronto Soccorso), about 2 km / 3 minutes by road from Norcia (the main town).
Nearest DEA (level I or II): Ospedale Civile San Matteo Degli Infermi, Spoleto (DEA level I), about 44.7 km / 44 minutes by road from Norcia (the main town).
Nearest airport: Perugia San Francesco d'Assisi – Umbria International Airport (PEG), about 88.1 km / 70 minutes by road from Norcia (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Coop, about 1.1 km / 1 minute by road from Norcia (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Centrale Norcia S.R.L. di Serena Basili e Valentina Falcinelli, about 0.2 km / 1 minute by road from Norcia (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Spoleto, about 42.2 km / 42 minutes by road from Norcia (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 Norcia, 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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