All things you need to know about living in Pietraferrazzana
Pietraferrazzana, in the province of Chieti (Abruzzo), records no residents from any of the nationalities we track, in the latest ISTAT data. Its population is 128.
ISTAT counts 1 residents with a foreign citizenship in Pietraferrazzana, 0.78% of the population.
That puts Pietraferrazzana 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.
Pietraferrazzana qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Chieti scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for people with at least upper secondary education level (25-64 years old) and medical specialists.
It scores in the bottom quarter for urban green 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 28.7°C (84°F) and winters a low of -0.7°C (31°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Pietraferrazzana sees about 26 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 1,182mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 141 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Pietraferrazzana at about €463 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
Pietraferrazzana population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 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% |
| 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% |
| 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% |
| 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% |
| Romania | 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 | 117 | 91.41% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 1 | 0.78% |
| Born outside the EU | 10 | 7.81% |
Argentinians over time
Quality of life in Chieti
Full BES profile for Chieti →Chieti on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Tax regimes
Pietraferrazzana 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 Pietraferrazzana is far below the Chieti average of €905/m². Averaged across 2 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
20.8 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 €588/m², against €463 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 27% 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
Pietraferrazzana 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: P.O. Atessa 'San Camillo De Lellis', about 21.5 km / 22 minutes by road from Pietraferrazzana (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: P.O. Atessa 'San Camillo De Lellis' (Pronto Soccorso), about 21.5 km / 22 minutes by road from Pietraferrazzana (the main town).
Nearest DEA (level I or II): P.O. Lanciano 'F. Renzetti' (DEA level I), about 36.3 km / 34 minutes by road from Pietraferrazzana (the main town).
Nearest airport: Abruzzo Airport (PSR), about 80.1 km / 54 minutes by road from Pietraferrazzana (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Coal, about 5.2 km / 7 minutes by road from Pietraferrazzana (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Ramone Massimiliano, about 0 km / 1 minute by road from Pietraferrazzana (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Villa S. Maria, about 3.4 km / 4 minutes by road from Pietraferrazzana (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 Pietraferrazzana, 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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