All things you need to know about living in Pontelatone
Pontelatone, in the province of Caserta, is home to 1 Americans: 0.07% of its 1,525 residents.
That is the 639th-highest concentration of Americans among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Campania it ranks 41st.
ISTAT counts 53 residents with a foreign citizenship in Pontelatone, 3.48% of the population. Among the nationalities we follow most closely, the only group is Americans (1).
Pontelatone qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Caserta scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for density and importance of museums' heritage and intentional homicide rate.
It scores in the bottom quarter for average disposable income per capita and life expectancy at birth.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 32.1°C (90°F) and winters a low of 2.8°C (37°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Pontelatone sees about 62 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 1,262mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 129 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Pontelatone at about €675 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
Pontelatone population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Albania | 11 | 0.72% |
| Romania | 11 | 0.72% |
| Ukraine | 11 | 0.72% |
| United States | 1 | 0.07% |
| 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% |
| Russia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Sweden | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovenia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovakia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Venezuela | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 1,419 | 93.05% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 10 | 0.66% |
| Born outside the EU | 96 | 6.30% |
Americans over time
Quality of life in Caserta
Full BES profile for Caserta →Caserta on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Tax regimes
Pontelatone 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 Pontelatone is well below the Caserta average of €880/m². Averaged across 2 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
28.1 years of rent here equal the purchase price — 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.
Seismic zone
Pontelatone 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: Casa di Cura 'Villa Fiorita' SPA, about 14.3 km / 18 minutes by road from Pontelatone (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: A.O. Sant'Anna e San Sebastiano Caserta (DEA level II), about 15.5 km / 23 minutes by road from Pontelatone (the main town).
Nearest airport: Naples International Airport (NAP), about 43.4 km / 37 minutes by road from Pontelatone (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Conad City, about 2.6 km / 3 minutes by road from Pontelatone (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia De Simone Stefano S.a.S. di De Simone Luigi, about 0.4 km / 1 minute by road from Pontelatone (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Pontelatone, about 6.2 km / 8 minutes by road from Pontelatone (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 Pontelatone, 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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