All things you need to know about living in Porto Tolle
Porto Tolle, in the province of Rovigo, is home to 3 Russians: 0.03% of its 8,723 residents.
That is the 2958th-highest concentration of Russians among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Veneto it ranks 220th.
ISTAT counts 159 residents with a foreign citizenship in Porto Tolle, 1.82% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Russians (3), Brazilians (2), Germans (2).
That puts Porto Tolle in the bottom ten percent of Italian comuni for foreign residents. Anyone moving here should expect to be unusual.
It scores in the bottom quarter for intentional homicide rate and PM10 Annual average concentration.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 27.1°C (81°F) and winters a low of 4.8°C (41°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Porto Tolle sees about 2 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 837mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 105 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Porto Tolle at about €942 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
At those figures, buying costs about 24.1 years of renting the same property.
Porto Tolle population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 54 | 0.62% |
| Ukraine | 10 | 0.11% |
| Albania | 7 | 0.08% |
| Poland | 4 | 0.05% |
| Russia | 3 | 0.03% |
| Brazil | 2 | 0.02% |
| Germany | 2 | 0.02% |
| Austria | 1 | 0.01% |
| Czechia | 1 | 0.01% |
| Estonia | 1 | 0.01% |
| Spain | 1 | 0.01% |
| Croatia | 1 | 0.01% |
| Argentina | 0 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Belgium | 0 | 0.00% |
| Bulgaria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Canada | 0 | 0.00% |
| Switzerland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Cyprus | 0 | 0.00% |
| Denmark | 0 | 0.00% |
| Finland | 0 | 0.00% |
| France | 0 | 0.00% |
| United Kingdom | 0 | 0.00% |
| Greece | 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% |
| Portugal | 0 | 0.00% |
| Sweden | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovenia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovakia | 0 | 0.00% |
| United States | 0 | 0.00% |
| Venezuela | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 8,521 | 97.68% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 58 | 0.66% |
| Born outside the EU | 144 | 1.65% |
Russians over time
Quality of life in Rovigo
Full BES profile for Rovigo →Rovigo on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Property prices
About the Rovigo average of €921/m². Averaged across 3 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
24.1 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 19% more than ordinary condition — €1,120/m² against €942.
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 €1,075/m², against €942 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 14% 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
Porto Tolle 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: Casa di Cura Madonna della Salute, about 29.9 km / 27 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest emergency department: Casa di Cura Madonna della Salute, Porto Viro (Pronto Soccorso), about 29.9 km / 27 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest DEA (level I or II): Ospedale del Delta, Lagosanto (DEA level I), about 46.3 km / 45 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest airport: Venice Marco Polo Airport (VCE), about 104.6 km / 88 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Alì Supermercati, about 13.8 km / 13 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia SS Pietro e Paolo S.a.S. della Dott.Ssa Laura Puppa, about 4.5 km / 5 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Pomposa Zona Industriale, about 32.6 km / 30 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
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 Tolle, 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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