All things you need to know about living in Pieve Porto Morone
Pieve Porto Morone, in the province of Pavia, is home to 3 French nationals: 0.11% of its 2,680 residents.
That is the 558th-highest concentration of French nationals among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Lombardia it ranks 97th.
ISTAT counts 462 residents with a foreign citizenship in Pieve Porto Morone, 17.24% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are French nationals (3), Greeks (2), Venezuelans (2).
That is above the national average for an Italian comune, which is 7.30%.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Pavia scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for medical specialists.
It scores in the bottom quarter for burglaries reported and intentional homicide rate.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 30.8°C (87°F) and winters a low of 0.3°C (33°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Pieve Porto Morone sees about 51 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 892mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 108 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Pieve Porto Morone at about €885 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
Pieve Porto Morone population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 161 | 6.01% |
| Albania | 28 | 1.04% |
| Ukraine | 18 | 0.67% |
| France | 3 | 0.11% |
| Greece | 2 | 0.07% |
| Venezuela | 2 | 0.07% |
| Belgium | 1 | 0.04% |
| Brazil | 1 | 0.04% |
| Germany | 1 | 0.04% |
| Spain | 1 | 0.04% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 0.04% |
| Japan | 1 | 0.04% |
| Lithuania | 1 | 0.04% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 0.04% |
| Poland | 1 | 0.04% |
| Russia | 1 | 0.04% |
| Slovenia | 1 | 0.04% |
| Argentina | 0 | 0.00% |
| Austria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Bulgaria | 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% |
| Finland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Croatia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Hungary | 0 | 0.00% |
| Ireland | 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% |
| Slovakia | 0 | 0.00% |
| United States | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 2,175 | 81.16% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 135 | 5.04% |
| Born outside the EU | 370 | 13.81% |
French nationals over time
Quality of life in Pavia
Full BES profile for Pavia →Pavia on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Property prices
Buying in Pieve Porto Morone is below the Pavia average of €1,069/m². Based on a single OMI micro-zone, so it describes the town as one market.
39.9 years of rent here equal the purchase price — well above 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 22% more than ordinary condition — €1,080/m² against €885.
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 €820/m², against €885 for an apartment.
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
Pieve Porto Morone 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.
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Nearest hospital: Ospedale Castel San Giovanni, about 7.4 km / 7 minutes by road from Pieve Porto Morone (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Ospedale Castel San Giovanni (Pronto Soccorso), about 7.4 km / 7 minutes by road from Pieve Porto Morone (the main town).
Nearest DEA (level I or II): Ospedale Guglielmo da Saliceto Piacenza (DEA level II), about 26.4 km / 21 minutes by road from Pieve Porto Morone (the main town).
Nearest airport: Milano Linate Airport (LIN), about 55.2 km / 41 minutes by road from Pieve Porto Morone (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Carrefour Market, about 1.2 km / 2 minutes by road from Pieve Porto Morone (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Coppaloni Snc Di Coppaloni Silvia E Franco, about 1.6 km / 2 minutes by road from Pieve Porto Morone (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Castel San Giovanni, about 6.3 km / 7 minutes by road from Pieve Porto Morone (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 Pieve Porto Morone, 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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