All things you need to know about living in Ostuni
Ostuni, in the province of Brindisi, is home to 162 Britons: 0.54% of its 29,943 residents.
That is the 80th-highest concentration of Britons among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Puglia it ranks 1st.
ISTAT counts 1,530 residents with a foreign citizenship in Ostuni, 5.11% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Britons (162), Germans (62), Dutch nationals (29).
Ostuni qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime.
It scores in the bottom quarter for intentional homicide rate 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 31.6°C (89°F) and winters a low of 5.9°C (43°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Ostuni sees about 55 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 624mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 95 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Ostuni at about €1,468 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
At those figures, buying costs about 20.2 years of renting the same property.
Ostuni population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 209 | 0.70% |
| United Kingdom | 162 | 0.54% |
| Albania | 114 | 0.38% |
| Germany | 62 | 0.21% |
| Netherlands | 29 | 0.10% |
| France | 26 | 0.09% |
| United States | 24 | 0.08% |
| Poland | 19 | 0.06% |
| Belgium | 18 | 0.06% |
| Spain | 15 | 0.05% |
| Ukraine | 15 | 0.05% |
| Ireland | 12 | 0.04% |
| Brazil | 11 | 0.04% |
| Hungary | 9 | 0.03% |
| Switzerland | 8 | 0.03% |
| Russia | 8 | 0.03% |
| Austria | 5 | 0.02% |
| Australia | 5 | 0.02% |
| Venezuela | 4 | 0.01% |
| Japan | 3 | 0.01% |
| Denmark | 2 | 0.01% |
| Finland | 2 | 0.01% |
| Greece | 2 | 0.01% |
| Croatia | 2 | 0.01% |
| Portugal | 2 | 0.01% |
| Sweden | 2 | 0.01% |
| Argentina | 1 | 0.00% |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 0.00% |
| Canada | 1 | 0.00% |
| Czechia | 1 | 0.00% |
| Mexico | 1 | 0.00% |
| Slovakia | 1 | 0.00% |
| Cyprus | 0 | 0.00% |
| Estonia | 0 | 0.00% |
| South Korea | 0 | 0.00% |
| Lithuania | 0 | 0.00% |
| Luxembourg | 0 | 0.00% |
| Latvia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Malta | 0 | 0.00% |
| Norway | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovenia | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 27,794 | 92.82% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 750 | 2.50% |
| Born outside the EU | 1,399 | 4.67% |
Britons over time
Quality of life in Brindisi
Full BES profile for Brindisi →Brindisi on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Tax regimes
Ostuni qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime. Only 57 residents below the 30,000 ceiling — close enough that a future ISTAT revision could push it over.
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 Ostuni is above the Brindisi average of €1,257/m². Averaged across 7 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
20.2 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.
A detached house here averages €1,913/m², against €1,468 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 28% 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
Ostuni 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: Ospedale Ostuni, about 1.2 km / 2 minutes by road from Ostuni (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Ospedale Ostuni (Pronto Soccorso), about 1.2 km / 2 minutes by road from Ostuni (the main town).
Nearest DEA (level I or II): Ospedale Civile Martina Franca (DEA level II), about 23.1 km / 24 minutes by road from Ostuni (the main town).
Nearest airport: Brindisi Airport (BDS), about 39.5 km / 32 minutes by road from Ostuni (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Despar, about 0.1 km / 1 minute by road from Ostuni (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia de nitto emanuela, about 0.3 km / 1 minute by road from Ostuni (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Ostuni, about 5.2 km / 7 minutes by road from Ostuni (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 Ostuni, 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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