All things you need to know about living in Onifai
Onifai, in the province of Nuoro, is home to 7 Swiss nationals: 0.99% of its 705 residents.
ISTAT counts 36 residents with a foreign citizenship in Onifai, 5.11% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Swiss nationals (7), French nationals (2), Irish nationals (1).
Onifai qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Nuoro scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for burglaries reported and electricity from renewable sources.
It scores in the bottom quarter for intentional homicide rate and people with at least upper secondary education level (25-64 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 7.8°C (46°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Onifai sees about 21 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 553mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 77 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
Between 2019 and 2025, the number of Swiss nationals in Onifai rose from 2 to 7.
ISTAT's census data puts 7.9% of Onifai's population as born outside Italy: 5.1% outside the EU and 2.8% elsewhere in the EU. ISTAT does not publish this by specific country at comune level, so it does not line up with the citizenship figures above.
Onifai population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 8 | 1.13% |
| Switzerland | 7 | 0.99% |
| France | 2 | 0.28% |
| Ireland | 1 | 0.14% |
| Albania | 0 | 0.00% |
| Argentina | 0 | 0.00% |
| Austria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Belgium | 0 | 0.00% |
| Bulgaria | 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% |
| 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% |
| Ukraine | 0 | 0.00% |
| United States | 0 | 0.00% |
| Venezuela | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 649 | 92.06% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 20 | 2.84% |
| Born outside the EU | 36 | 5.11% |
Swiss nationals over time
Quality of life in Nuoro
Full BES profile for Nuoro →Nuoro on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Tax regimes
Onifai 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 →Seismic zone
Onifai is in seismic zone 4. Of the four zones, zone 1 is the highest hazard and zone 4 the lowest. The Department of Civil Protection describes zone 4 as the lowest-hazard zone, where a strong earthquake is very unlikely.
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: P.O. C. Zonchello, about 37.8 km / 32 minutes by road from Oniài/Onifai (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: P.O. San Francesco, Nuoro (DEA level I), about 38.1 km / 32 minutes by road from Oniài/Onifai (the main town).
Nearest airport: Olbia Costa Smeralda Airport (OLB), about 91.9 km / 72 minutes by road from Oniài/Onifai (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Supermarket, about 5 km / 5 minutes by road from Oniài/Onifai (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Congiu Mariella S.a.S. di Congiu Mariella e C., about 2.1 km / 3 minutes by road from Oniài/Onifai (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Nuoro, about 37.1 km / 31 minutes by road from Oniài/Onifai (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 Onifai, 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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