All things you need to know about living in Orta Nova
Orta Nova, in the province of Foggia, is home to 2 Germans: 0.01% of its 16,597 residents.
That is the 3642nd-highest concentration of Germans among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Puglia it ranks 159th.
ISTAT counts 1,349 residents with a foreign citizenship in Orta Nova, 8.13% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Germans (2), Russians (2), Canadians (1).
That is above the national average for an Italian comune, which is 7.30%.
Orta Nova qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Foggia scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for electricity from renewable sources and hospital beds in high-care wards.
It scores in the bottom quarter for average disposable income per capita and PM10 Annual average concentration.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 33.6°C (92°F) and winters a low of 3.1°C (38°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Orta Nova sees about 75 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 553mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 92 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
Orta Nova population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 385 | 2.32% |
| Albania | 165 | 0.99% |
| Bulgaria | 104 | 0.63% |
| Poland | 89 | 0.54% |
| Ukraine | 56 | 0.34% |
| Germany | 2 | 0.01% |
| Lithuania | 2 | 0.01% |
| Russia | 2 | 0.01% |
| Canada | 1 | 0.01% |
| Czechia | 1 | 0.01% |
| Spain | 1 | 0.01% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 0.01% |
| Venezuela | 1 | 0.01% |
| Argentina | 0 | 0.00% |
| Austria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Belgium | 0 | 0.00% |
| Brazil | 0 | 0.00% |
| Switzerland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Cyprus | 0 | 0.00% |
| Denmark | 0 | 0.00% |
| Estonia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Finland | 0 | 0.00% |
| France | 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% |
| 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 | 15,290 | 92.13% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 530 | 3.19% |
| Born outside the EU | 777 | 4.68% |
Germans over time
Quality of life in Foggia
Full BES profile for Foggia →Foggia on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Tax regimes
Orta Nova 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 Orta Nova is well below the Foggia average of €996/m². Averaged across 3 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
17.5 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.
Seismic zone
Orta Nova is in seismic zone 2. Of the four zones, zone 1 is the highest hazard and zone 4 the lowest. The Department of Civil Protection describes zone 2 as a zone where strong earthquakes are possible.
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 Cerignola 'G.Tatarella', about 20.6 km / 16 minutes by road from Orta Nova (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Ospedale Cerignola 'G.Tatarella' (DEA level I), about 20.6 km / 16 minutes by road from Orta Nova (the main town).
Nearest airport: Foggia Gino Lisa Airport (FOG), about 21.8 km / 22 minutes by road from Orta Nova (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Alvi Discount, about 0.2 km / 1 minute by road from Orta Nova (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Maria Altomare Laccetti, about 0.3 km / 1 minute by road from Orta Nova (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Ortanova, about 4.4 km / 6 minutes by road from Orta Nova (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 Orta Nova, 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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