All things you need to know about living in Portocannone
Portocannone, in the province of Campobasso, is home to 5 Latvians: 0.22% of its 2,322 residents.
That is the 6th-highest concentration of Latvians among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Molise it ranks 1st.
ISTAT counts 218 residents with a foreign citizenship in Portocannone, 9.39% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Mexicans (2), Russians (2), Britons (1).
That is above the national average for an Italian comune, which is 7.30%.
Portocannone qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Campobasso scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for overall Fixed Very High Capacity Network (VHCN) coverage and PM10 Annual average concentration.
It scores in the bottom quarter for road mortality in non-urban roads 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 29.9°C (86°F) and winters a low of 4.9°C (41°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Portocannone sees about 38 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 674mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 100 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
Portocannone population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 80 | 3.45% |
| Albania | 33 | 1.42% |
| Latvia | 5 | 0.22% |
| Mexico | 2 | 0.09% |
| Russia | 2 | 0.09% |
| Ukraine | 2 | 0.09% |
| Czechia | 1 | 0.04% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 0.04% |
| Hungary | 1 | 0.04% |
| Poland | 1 | 0.04% |
| 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% |
| Germany | 0 | 0.00% |
| Denmark | 0 | 0.00% |
| Estonia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Spain | 0 | 0.00% |
| Finland | 0 | 0.00% |
| France | 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% |
| Malta | 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 | 2,051 | 88.33% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 99 | 4.26% |
| Born outside the EU | 172 | 7.41% |
Latvians over time
Quality of life in Campobasso
Full BES profile for Campobasso →Campobasso on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Tax regimes
Portocannone 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 Portocannone is well below the Campobasso average of €787/m². Based on a single OMI micro-zone, so it describes the town as one market.
17.9 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.
A detached house here averages €550/m², against €525 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 5% 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.
Nearby comuni
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