All things you need to know about living in Pietrabbondante
Pietrabbondante, in the province of Isernia, is home to 1 Australians: 0.17% of its 579 residents.
ISTAT counts 12 residents with a foreign citizenship in Pietrabbondante, 2.07% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Australians (1), French nationals (1), Britons (1).
That puts Pietrabbondante in the bottom ten percent of Italian comuni for foreign residents. Anyone moving here should expect to be unusual.
These are small numbers, so we would not read much into the percentage or any change in it.
Pietrabbondante qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Isernia scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for urban green and hospital beds in high-care wards.
It scores in the bottom quarter for life expectancy at birth and density and importance of museums' heritage.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 27.6°C (82°F) and winters a low of -0.4°C (31°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Pietrabbondante sees about 16 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 983mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 135 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Pietrabbondante at about €650 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
Pietrabbondante population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Poland | 4 | 0.69% |
| Australia | 1 | 0.17% |
| France | 1 | 0.17% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 0.17% |
| Romania | 1 | 0.17% |
| United States | 1 | 0.17% |
| Albania | 0 | 0.00% |
| Argentina | 0 | 0.00% |
| Austria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Belgium | 0 | 0.00% |
| Bulgaria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Brazil | 0 | 0.00% |
| Canada | 0 | 0.00% |
| Switzerland | 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% |
| 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% |
| 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% |
| Russia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Sweden | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovenia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovakia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Ukraine | 0 | 0.00% |
| Venezuela | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 551 | 95.16% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 12 | 2.07% |
| Born outside the EU | 16 | 2.76% |
Australians over time
Quality of life in Isernia
Full BES profile for Isernia →Isernia on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Tax regimes
Pietrabbondante 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
About the Isernia average of €682/m². Based on a single OMI micro-zone, so it describes the town as one market. OMI records no rental figures here.
Seismic zone
Pietrabbondante 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 Caracciolo Agnone, about 15.8 km / 19 minutes by road from Pietrabbondante (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Ospedale Caracciolo Agnone (Pronto Soccorso), about 15.8 km / 19 minutes by road from Pietrabbondante (the main town).
Nearest DEA (level I or II): Presidio Ospedaliero 'a.Cardarelli', Campobasso (DEA level I), about 52.4 km / 52 minutes by road from Pietrabbondante (the main town).
Nearest airport: Abruzzo Airport (PSR), about 140.2 km / 91 minutes by road from Pietrabbondante (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): MD, about 16.5 km / 20 minutes by road from Pietrabbondante (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Mancini Mario, about 8.6 km / 9 minutes by road from Pietrabbondante (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Pescolanciano-Chiauci, about 12.2 km / 13 minutes by road from Pietrabbondante (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 Pietrabbondante, 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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