Foreign residents in Porto Torres
Porto Torres, in the province of Sassari, is home to 8 French nationals — 0.04% of its 20,846 residents. That is the 2101st-highest concentration of French nationals of any of the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents, and 113th within Sardegna.
Across the nationalities we track, Porto Torres counts 30 foreign residents in total, 0.14% of the population. The largest groups are French nationals (8), Spaniards (4), Russians (4).
Over the period 2019–2025, the number of French nationals in Porto Torres has risen, from 6 to 8 (+33%).
Separately, ISTAT's census data shows 2.7% of Porto Torres's population was born outside Italy — 1.5% outside the EU and 1.2% elsewhere in the EU. ISTAT does not publish this broken down by specific country at comune level, so it isn't directly comparable to the per-nationality citizenship figures above.
Population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| France | 8 | 0.04% |
| Spain | 4 | 0.02% |
| Russia | 4 | 0.02% |
| Belgium | 3 | 0.01% |
| Brazil | 3 | 0.01% |
| Germany | 2 | 0.01% |
| United States | 2 | 0.01% |
| Argentina | 1 | 0.00% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 0.00% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 0.00% |
| Ireland | 1 | 0.00% |
| Austria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Canada | 0 | 0.00% |
| Denmark | 0 | 0.00% |
| Finland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Greece | 0 | 0.00% |
| Japan | 0 | 0.00% |
| South Korea | 0 | 0.00% |
| Mexico | 0 | 0.00% |
| Netherlands | 0 | 0.00% |
| Norway | 0 | 0.00% |
| Portugal | 0 | 0.00% |
| Sweden | 0 | 0.00% |
| Venezuela | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 20,284 | 97.30% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 246 | 1.18% |
| Born outside the EU | 316 | 1.52% |
French nationals over time
Quality of life in Sassari
Full BES profile for Sassari →Sassari on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Tax regimes
Porto Torres 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
About the Sassari average of €1,240/m². Averaged across 3 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
19.9 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.
Housing here in excellent condition costs 30% more than ordinary condition — €1,572/m² against €1,208.
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 €1,658/m², against €1,208 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighbourhood — a house costs 38% more per square metre.
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 metre, but in 450 comuni it costs less — worth checking rather than assuming.