All things you need to know about living in Poggio Catino
Poggio Catino, in the province of Rieti, is home to 5 Britons: 0.38% of its 1,307 residents.
That is the 127th-highest concentration of Britons among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Lazio it ranks 9th.
ISTAT counts 129 residents with a foreign citizenship in Poggio Catino, 9.87% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Britons (5), Americans (5), Argentinians (4).
That is above the national average for an Italian comune, which is 7.30%.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Rieti scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for urban green and nonprofit organizations.
It scores in the bottom quarter for density and importance of museums' heritage 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 31.1°C (88°F) and winters a low of 1.0°C (34°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Poggio Catino sees about 48 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 1,047mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 120 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Poggio Catino at about €810 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
Poggio Catino population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 29 | 2.22% |
| Poland | 17 | 1.30% |
| Ukraine | 6 | 0.46% |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 0.38% |
| United States | 5 | 0.38% |
| Argentina | 4 | 0.31% |
| Germany | 4 | 0.31% |
| Belgium | 3 | 0.23% |
| Netherlands | 3 | 0.23% |
| France | 2 | 0.15% |
| Canada | 1 | 0.08% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 0.08% |
| Finland | 1 | 0.08% |
| Hungary | 1 | 0.08% |
| Venezuela | 1 | 0.08% |
| Albania | 0 | 0.00% |
| Austria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Bulgaria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Brazil | 0 | 0.00% |
| Cyprus | 0 | 0.00% |
| Czechia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Denmark | 0 | 0.00% |
| Estonia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Spain | 0 | 0.00% |
| Greece | 0 | 0.00% |
| Croatia | 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% |
| Norway | 0 | 0.00% |
| Portugal | 0 | 0.00% |
| Russia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Sweden | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovenia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovakia | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 1,132 | 86.61% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 60 | 4.59% |
| Born outside the EU | 115 | 8.80% |
Britons over time
Quality of life in Rieti
Full BES profile for Rieti →Rieti on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Property prices
Buying in Poggio Catino is below the Rieti average of €916/m². Based on a single OMI micro-zone, so it describes the town as one market.
18.2 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.
Seismic zone
Poggio Catino is in seismic zone 2 (the Region labels it 2B). 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.
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Nearest hospital: Ospedale di Civitacastellana, about 42.4 km / 37 minutes by road from Poggio Catino (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Polo Ospedaliero Unico Integrato, Rieti (DEA level I), about 34.5 km / 36 minutes by road from Poggio Catino (the main town).
Nearest airport: Ciampino–G. B. Pastine International Airport (CIA), about 82.5 km / 54 minutes by road from Poggio Catino (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Supermarket, about 0.5 km / 1 minute by road from Poggio Catino (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Cortellini Dott. Pierluigi & C. Snc, about 1.6 km / 2 minutes by road from Poggio Catino (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Gavignano Sabino, about 12.1 km / 13 minutes by road from Poggio Catino (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 Poggio Catino, 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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