All things you need to know about living in Reggio nell'Emilia
Reggio nell'Emilia, in the province of Reggio nell'Emilia, is home to 268 Brazilians: 0.16% of its 172,284 residents.
That is the 814th-highest concentration of Brazilians among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Emilia-Romagna it ranks 39th.
ISTAT counts 28,749 residents with a foreign citizenship in Reggio nell'Emilia, 16.69% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Brazilians (268), Russians (196), Spaniards (99).
That is above the national average for an Italian comune, which is 7.30%.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Reggio nell'Emilia scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for average disposable income per capita and urban green.
It scores in the bottom quarter for hospital beds in high-care wards and electricity from renewable sources.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 30.3°C (87°F) and winters a low of 0.1°C (32°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Reggio nell'Emilia sees about 43 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 976mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 117 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Reggio nell'Emilia at about €1,367 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
Reggio nell'Emilia population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Albania | 2,705 | 1.57% |
| Romania | 2,456 | 1.43% |
| Ukraine | 2,388 | 1.39% |
| Brazil | 268 | 0.16% |
| Poland | 262 | 0.15% |
| Russia | 196 | 0.11% |
| Spain | 99 | 0.06% |
| Bulgaria | 89 | 0.05% |
| Venezuela | 53 | 0.03% |
| Germany | 51 | 0.03% |
| France | 51 | 0.03% |
| United Kingdom | 45 | 0.03% |
| Latvia | 40 | 0.02% |
| Argentina | 39 | 0.02% |
| Lithuania | 31 | 0.02% |
| United States | 31 | 0.02% |
| Greece | 28 | 0.02% |
| Hungary | 25 | 0.01% |
| Czechia | 22 | 0.01% |
| Croatia | 19 | 0.01% |
| Mexico | 19 | 0.01% |
| Japan | 17 | 0.01% |
| Portugal | 16 | 0.01% |
| Ireland | 13 | 0.01% |
| Belgium | 10 | 0.01% |
| Slovakia | 10 | 0.01% |
| Netherlands | 9 | 0.01% |
| Austria | 8 | 0.00% |
| Canada | 8 | 0.00% |
| Slovenia | 8 | 0.00% |
| Switzerland | 6 | 0.00% |
| Estonia | 6 | 0.00% |
| Denmark | 3 | 0.00% |
| Finland | 3 | 0.00% |
| Sweden | 3 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 1 | 0.00% |
| South Korea | 1 | 0.00% |
| Malta | 1 | 0.00% |
| Norway | 1 | 0.00% |
| Cyprus | 0 | 0.00% |
| Luxembourg | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 137,473 | 79.79% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 3,318 | 1.93% |
| Born outside the EU | 31,493 | 18.28% |
Brazilians over time
Quality of life in Reggio nell'Emilia
Full BES profile for Reggio nell'Emilia →Reggio nell'Emilia on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Property prices
Buying in Reggio nell'Emilia is above the Reggio nell'Emilia average of €1,168/m². Averaged across 24 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
19.8 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 31% more than ordinary condition — €1,789/m² against €1,367.
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 €1,657/m², against €1,367 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 19% 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
Reggio nell'Emilia 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: Istituto in Tecnologie Avanzate e Modell, about 1.3 km / 2 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest emergency department: Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova di Reggio, Reggio nell'Emilia (DEA level II), about 2.5 km / 4 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest airport: Parma Airport (PMF), about 39.7 km / 29 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Carrefour, about 0.5 km / 1 minute by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Comunale della Gabella, about 0.5 km / 1 minute by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Reggio Emilia, about 0.9 km / 2 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 Reggio nell'Emilia, 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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