All things you need to know about living in Sala Bolognese
Sala Bolognese, in the province of Bologna, is home to 5 Brazilians: 0.06% of its 8,454 residents.
That is the 2751st-highest concentration of Brazilians among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Emilia-Romagna it ranks 185th.
ISTAT counts 613 residents with a foreign citizenship in Sala Bolognese, 7.25% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Brazilians (5), Germans (3), Spaniards (2).
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Bologna scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for people with at least upper secondary education level (25-64 years old) and average disposable income per capita.
It scores in the bottom quarter for burglaries reported 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 32.2°C (90°F) and winters a low of 0.6°C (33°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Sala Bolognese sees about 63 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 823mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 105 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Sala Bolognese at about €1,483 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
At those figures, buying costs about 15.9 years of renting the same property.
Sala Bolognese population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 194 | 2.29% |
| Albania | 58 | 0.69% |
| Ukraine | 38 | 0.45% |
| Poland | 13 | 0.15% |
| Brazil | 5 | 0.06% |
| Latvia | 5 | 0.06% |
| Germany | 3 | 0.04% |
| Lithuania | 3 | 0.04% |
| Spain | 2 | 0.02% |
| Hungary | 2 | 0.02% |
| Russia | 2 | 0.02% |
| Austria | 1 | 0.01% |
| France | 1 | 0.01% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 0.01% |
| Greece | 1 | 0.01% |
| Japan | 1 | 0.01% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 0.01% |
| Portugal | 1 | 0.01% |
| United States | 1 | 0.01% |
| Venezuela | 1 | 0.01% |
| Argentina | 0 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Belgium | 0 | 0.00% |
| Bulgaria | 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% |
| Finland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Croatia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Ireland | 0 | 0.00% |
| South Korea | 0 | 0.00% |
| Luxembourg | 0 | 0.00% |
| Malta | 0 | 0.00% |
| Mexico | 0 | 0.00% |
| Norway | 0 | 0.00% |
| Sweden | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovenia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovakia | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 7,591 | 89.79% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 223 | 2.64% |
| Born outside the EU | 640 | 7.57% |
Brazilians over time
Quality of life in Bologna
Full BES profile for Bologna →Bologna on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Property prices
Buying in Sala Bolognese is well below the Bologna average of €2,143/m². Averaged across 3 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
15.9 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.
Housing here in excellent condition costs 28% more than ordinary condition — €1,897/m² against €1,483.
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 €1,567/m², against €1,483 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.
Seismic zone
Sala Bolognese 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: Ospedale "s.Salvatore" S. Giovanni in P, about 7 km / 6 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest emergency department: Ospedale S.Salvatore S.Giovanni in Persi, San Giovanni in Persiceto (Pronto Soccorso), about 7 km / 6 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest DEA (level I or II): Ospedale Maggiore C.a.Pizzardi, Bologna (DEA level II), about 21.5 km / 21 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest airport: Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ), about 16.2 km / 16 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Coop, about 1.1 km / 1 minute by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia della Pieve di Farmacia Padulle S.N.C. dei Dottori Riccardo Baruchello e Giuseppina Grisolia, about 1.5 km / 2 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): San Giovanni in Persiceto, about 7.9 km / 7 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 Sala Bolognese, 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.
Nearby comuni
- Argelato
- San Giovanni in Persiceto
- Calderara di Reno
- Castello d'Argile
- Anzola dell'Emilia
- Castel Maggiore
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