All things you need to know about living in Porto San Giorgio
Porto San Giorgio, in the province of Fermo, is home to 39 Russians: 0.25% of its 15,547 residents.
That is the 159th-highest concentration of Russians among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Marche it ranks 10th.
ISTAT counts 910 residents with a foreign citizenship in Porto San Giorgio, 5.85% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Russians (39), Brazilians (22), Argentinians (10).
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Fermo scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for road mortality in non-urban roads and nonprofit organizations.
It scores in the bottom quarter for medical specialists 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 28.6°C (83°F) and winters a low of 4.1°C (39°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Porto San Giorgio sees about 20 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 708mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 102 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Porto San Giorgio at about €2,050 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
At those figures, buying costs about 20 years of renting the same property.
Porto San Giorgio population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 228 | 1.47% |
| Albania | 119 | 0.77% |
| Ukraine | 73 | 0.47% |
| Poland | 54 | 0.35% |
| Russia | 39 | 0.25% |
| Brazil | 22 | 0.14% |
| Argentina | 10 | 0.06% |
| Spain | 9 | 0.06% |
| Bulgaria | 6 | 0.04% |
| France | 5 | 0.03% |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 0.03% |
| Germany | 4 | 0.03% |
| Latvia | 4 | 0.03% |
| Czechia | 3 | 0.02% |
| United States | 3 | 0.02% |
| Lithuania | 2 | 0.01% |
| Netherlands | 2 | 0.01% |
| Slovakia | 2 | 0.01% |
| Venezuela | 2 | 0.01% |
| Canada | 1 | 0.01% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 0.01% |
| Greece | 1 | 0.01% |
| Croatia | 1 | 0.01% |
| Norway | 1 | 0.01% |
| Portugal | 1 | 0.01% |
| Austria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Belgium | 0 | 0.00% |
| Cyprus | 0 | 0.00% |
| Denmark | 0 | 0.00% |
| Estonia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Finland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Hungary | 0 | 0.00% |
| Ireland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Japan | 0 | 0.00% |
| South Korea | 0 | 0.00% |
| Luxembourg | 0 | 0.00% |
| Malta | 0 | 0.00% |
| Mexico | 0 | 0.00% |
| Sweden | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovenia | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 14,185 | 91.24% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 396 | 2.55% |
| Born outside the EU | 966 | 6.21% |
Russians over time
Quality of life in Fermo
Full BES profile for Fermo →Fermo on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Property prices
Buying in Porto San Giorgio is well above the Fermo average of €1,087/m². Averaged across 5 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
20 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.
Housing here in excellent condition costs 36% more than ordinary condition — €2,780/m² against €2,050.
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 €1,994/m², against €2,050 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — the two cost about the same 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
Porto San Giorgio 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.
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Nearest hospital: Cdc Marche - Rete Impresa Ast4/5, about 8 km / 9 minutes by road from Porto San Giorgio (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Stabilimento di Fermo (DEA level I), about 8.5 km / 10 minutes by road from Porto San Giorgio (the main town).
Nearest airport: Marche Airport (AOI), about 71.5 km / 38 minutes by road from Porto San Giorgio (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Conad City, about 0.7 km / 1 minute by road from Porto San Giorgio (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Boncori di Boncori Alessandra P. & C. Snc, about 0.9 km / 1 minute by road from Porto San Giorgio (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Porto San Giorgio-Fermo, about 0.8 km / 2 minutes by road from Porto San Giorgio (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 Porto San Giorgio, 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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