All things you need to know about living in Portoferraio
Portoferraio, in the province of Livorno, is home to 73 Germans: 0.62% of its 11,779 residents.
That is the 161st-highest concentration of Germans among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Toscana it ranks 25th.
ISTAT counts 942 residents with a foreign citizenship in Portoferraio, 8.00% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Germans (73), French nationals (17), Swiss nationals (11).
That is above the national average for an Italian comune, which is 7.30%.
It scores in the bottom quarter for electricity from renewable sources and overall Fixed Very High Capacity Network (VHCN) coverage.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 27.0°C (81°F) and winters a low of 9.5°C (49°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Portoferraio sees about 1 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 680mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 92 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Portoferraio at about €2,364 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
At those figures, buying costs about 20 years of renting the same property.
Portoferraio population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 150 | 1.27% |
| Ukraine | 135 | 1.15% |
| Germany | 73 | 0.62% |
| Albania | 42 | 0.36% |
| France | 17 | 0.14% |
| Switzerland | 11 | 0.09% |
| Bulgaria | 10 | 0.08% |
| Venezuela | 10 | 0.08% |
| Brazil | 9 | 0.08% |
| Russia | 9 | 0.08% |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 0.05% |
| Poland | 5 | 0.04% |
| Portugal | 5 | 0.04% |
| Netherlands | 4 | 0.03% |
| Slovakia | 4 | 0.03% |
| Croatia | 3 | 0.03% |
| Austria | 2 | 0.02% |
| Belgium | 2 | 0.02% |
| Czechia | 2 | 0.02% |
| Finland | 2 | 0.02% |
| Hungary | 2 | 0.02% |
| Slovenia | 2 | 0.02% |
| United States | 2 | 0.02% |
| Spain | 1 | 0.01% |
| Ireland | 1 | 0.01% |
| Japan | 1 | 0.01% |
| Lithuania | 1 | 0.01% |
| Malta | 1 | 0.01% |
| Sweden | 1 | 0.01% |
| Argentina | 0 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Canada | 0 | 0.00% |
| Cyprus | 0 | 0.00% |
| Denmark | 0 | 0.00% |
| Estonia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Greece | 0 | 0.00% |
| South Korea | 0 | 0.00% |
| Luxembourg | 0 | 0.00% |
| Latvia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Mexico | 0 | 0.00% |
| Norway | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 10,421 | 88.47% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 325 | 2.76% |
| Born outside the EU | 1,033 | 8.77% |
Germans over time
Quality of life in Livorno
Full BES profile for Livorno →Livorno on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Property prices
Buying in Portoferraio is well above the Livorno average of €1,844/m². Averaged across 7 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.
A detached house here averages €2,975/m², against €2,364 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 22% 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
Portoferraio is in seismic zone 4. Of the four zones, zone 1 is the highest hazard and zone 4 the lowest. The Department of Civil Protection describes zone 4 as the lowest-hazard zone, where a strong earthquake is very unlikely.
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: Ospedale di Portoferraio, about 1.3 km / 2 minutes by road from Portoferraio (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Ospedale di Portoferraio (Pronto Soccorso), about 1.3 km / 2 minutes by road from Portoferraio (the main town).
Nearest DEA (level I or II): no figure. We could not find a road route to a DEA in the Ministry's list that avoids a ferry.
Nearest airport: Marina di Campo Airport (EBA), about 14.3 km / 16 minutes by road from Portoferraio (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Conad City, about 1.3 km / 2 minutes by road from Portoferraio (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia del Circolino S.a.S. della Dottoressa Martina Battaglini e C., about 3.4 km / 4 minutes by road from Portoferraio (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): no figure. We could not find a road route to a railway station with passenger service that avoids a ferry.
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 Portoferraio, 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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