All things you need to know about living in Palagiano
Palagiano, in the province of Taranto, is home to 4 Brazilians: 0.03% of its 15,701 residents.
That is the 3867th-highest concentration of Brazilians among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Puglia it ranks 113th.
ISTAT counts 900 residents with a foreign citizenship in Palagiano, 5.73% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Brazilians (4), Venezuelans (4), Germans (3).
Palagiano qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Taranto scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for overall Fixed Very High Capacity Network (VHCN) coverage.
It scores in the bottom quarter for employment rate (20-64 years old) and road mortality in non-urban roads.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 34.1°C (93°F) and winters a low of 4.9°C (41°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Palagiano sees about 75 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 612mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 91 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Palagiano at about €775 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
Palagiano population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 209 | 1.33% |
| Bulgaria | 27 | 0.17% |
| Albania | 15 | 0.10% |
| Ukraine | 14 | 0.09% |
| Poland | 12 | 0.08% |
| Brazil | 4 | 0.03% |
| Venezuela | 4 | 0.03% |
| Germany | 3 | 0.02% |
| Croatia | 2 | 0.01% |
| Slovenia | 2 | 0.01% |
| Spain | 1 | 0.01% |
| Finland | 1 | 0.01% |
| Russia | 1 | 0.01% |
| United States | 1 | 0.01% |
| Argentina | 0 | 0.00% |
| Austria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Belgium | 0 | 0.00% |
| Canada | 0 | 0.00% |
| Switzerland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Cyprus | 0 | 0.00% |
| Czechia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Denmark | 0 | 0.00% |
| Estonia | 0 | 0.00% |
| France | 0 | 0.00% |
| United Kingdom | 0 | 0.00% |
| Greece | 0 | 0.00% |
| Hungary | 0 | 0.00% |
| Ireland | 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% |
| Portugal | 0 | 0.00% |
| Sweden | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovakia | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 14,691 | 93.57% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 288 | 1.83% |
| Born outside the EU | 722 | 4.60% |
Brazilians over time
Quality of life in Taranto
Full BES profile for Taranto →Taranto on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Tax regimes
Palagiano 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 Palagiano is below the Taranto average of €862/m². Averaged across 4 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
17.7 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.
Housing here in excellent condition costs 34% more than ordinary condition — €1,036/m² against €775.
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 €668/m², against €775 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — the two cost about the same per square meter — the opposite of what the two averages above suggest, because OMI prices houses and flats in different parts of town.
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
Palagiano 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.
See every comune on the map →Hospital, airport and daily-needs distance
Nearest hospital: Ospedale Castellaneta, about 12.6 km / 15 minutes by road from Palagiano (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Ospedale Castellaneta (DEA level I), about 12.6 km / 15 minutes by road from Palagiano (the main town).
Nearest airport: Bari Karol Wojtyła International Airport (BRI), about 82.5 km / 51 minutes by road from Palagiano (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Penny, about 0.9 km / 2 minutes by road from Palagiano (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Salus, about 0.2 km / 1 minute by road from Palagiano (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Palagiano-Mottola, about 4.5 km / 6 minutes by road from Palagiano (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 Palagiano, 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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