All things you need to know about living in Portoscuso
Portoscuso, in the province of Sulcis Iglesiente, is home to 3 Germans: 0.06% of its 4,751 residents.
That is the 1663rd-highest concentration of Germans among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Sardegna it ranks 101st.
ISTAT counts 70 residents with a foreign citizenship in Portoscuso, 1.47% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Germans (3), French nationals (3), Russians (2).
That puts Portoscuso in the bottom ten percent of Italian comuni for foreign residents. Anyone moving here should expect to be unusual.
Portoscuso qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime.
Summers average a high of 33.3°C (92°F) and winters a low of 7.8°C (46°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Portoscuso sees about 77 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 486mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 77 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Portoscuso at about €913 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
At those figures, buying costs about 21.7 years of renting the same property.
That is above most Italian comuni.
Portoscuso population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 11 | 0.23% |
| Germany | 3 | 0.06% |
| France | 3 | 0.06% |
| Lithuania | 2 | 0.04% |
| Poland | 2 | 0.04% |
| Russia | 2 | 0.04% |
| Ukraine | 1 | 0.02% |
| Albania | 0 | 0.00% |
| 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% |
| Czechia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Denmark | 0 | 0.00% |
| Estonia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Spain | 0 | 0.00% |
| Finland | 0 | 0.00% |
| United Kingdom | 0 | 0.00% |
| Greece | 0 | 0.00% |
| Croatia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Hungary | 0 | 0.00% |
| Ireland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Japan | 0 | 0.00% |
| South Korea | 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 | 4,599 | 96.80% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 72 | 1.52% |
| Born outside the EU | 80 | 1.68% |
Germans over time
Tax regimes
Portoscuso 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 Sulcis Iglesiente average of €955/m². Averaged across 2 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
21.7 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.
Seismic zone
Portoscuso 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: P.O.Sirai, about 14.9 km / 18 minutes by road from Portescusi/Portoscuso (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: P.O.Sirai, Carbonia (DEA level I), about 14.9 km / 18 minutes by road from Portescusi/Portoscuso (the main town).
Nearest airport: Cagliari Elmas Airport (CAG), about 72.7 km / 59 minutes by road from Portescusi/Portoscuso (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Sigma, about 0.4 km / 1 minute by road from Portescusi/Portoscuso (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Pusceddu Alessandro Di Alessandro Pusceddu & C. S.a.s., about 0.5 km / 1 minute by road from Portescusi/Portoscuso (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Carbonia Serbariu, about 16.9 km / 20 minutes by road from Portescusi/Portoscuso (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 Portoscuso, 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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