All things you need to know about living in Roccaraso
Roccaraso, in the province of L'Aquila, is home to 12 Poles: 0.80% of its 1,492 residents.
That is the 24th-highest concentration of Poles among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Abruzzo it ranks 1st.
ISTAT counts 93 residents with a foreign citizenship in Roccaraso, 6.23% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Spaniards (2), French nationals (1), Americans (1).
Roccaraso qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of L'Aquila scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for PM10 Annual average concentration and hospital beds in high-care wards.
It scores in the bottom quarter for density and importance of museums' heritage and intentional homicide rate.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 24.9°C (77°F) and winters a low of -2.0°C (28°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Roccaraso sees about 2 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 1,158mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 153 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Roccaraso at about €2,213 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
Roccaraso population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Poland | 12 | 0.80% |
| Romania | 8 | 0.54% |
| Albania | 2 | 0.13% |
| Czechia | 2 | 0.13% |
| Spain | 2 | 0.13% |
| Ukraine | 2 | 0.13% |
| France | 1 | 0.07% |
| United States | 1 | 0.07% |
| 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% |
| 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% |
| Lithuania | 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% |
| Russia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Sweden | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovenia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovakia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Venezuela | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 1,334 | 89.41% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 34 | 2.28% |
| Born outside the EU | 124 | 8.31% |
Poles over time
Quality of life in L'Aquila
Full BES profile for L'Aquila →L'Aquila on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Tax regimes
Roccaraso 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 Roccaraso is far above the L'Aquila average of €704/m². Averaged across 2 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
31.5 years of rent here equal the purchase price — well above 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 €2,213/m², against €2,213 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — the two cost about the same per square meter — the opposite of what the two averages above suggest, because OMI prices houses and flats in different parts of town.
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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