All things you need to know about living in Sambuca Pistoiese
Sambuca Pistoiese, in the province of Pistoia, is home to 5 Germans: 0.36% of its 1,404 residents.
That is the 298th-highest concentration of Germans among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Toscana it ranks 47th.
ISTAT counts 111 residents with a foreign citizenship in Sambuca Pistoiese, 7.91% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Germans (5), Spaniards (3), French nationals (3).
That is above the national average for an Italian comune, which is 7.30%.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Pistoia scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for road mortality in non-urban roads and intentional homicide rate.
It scores in the bottom quarter for overall Fixed Very High Capacity Network (VHCN) coverage and hospital beds in high-care wards.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 26.7°C (80°F) and winters a low of 0.0°C (32°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Sambuca Pistoiese sees about 9 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 1,167mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 142 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Sambuca Pistoiese at about €888 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
Sambuca Pistoiese population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 22 | 1.57% |
| Germany | 5 | 0.36% |
| Albania | 4 | 0.28% |
| Spain | 3 | 0.21% |
| France | 3 | 0.21% |
| Netherlands | 3 | 0.21% |
| Poland | 3 | 0.21% |
| Czechia | 2 | 0.14% |
| Canada | 1 | 0.07% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 0.07% |
| Slovakia | 1 | 0.07% |
| Ukraine | 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% |
| Cyprus | 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% |
| Norway | 0 | 0.00% |
| Portugal | 0 | 0.00% |
| Russia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Sweden | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovenia | 0 | 0.00% |
| United States | 0 | 0.00% |
| Venezuela | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 1,222 | 87.04% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 64 | 4.56% |
| Born outside the EU | 118 | 8.40% |
Germans over time
Quality of life in Pistoia
Full BES profile for Pistoia →Pistoia on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Property prices
Buying in Sambuca Pistoiese is well below the Pistoia average of €1,359/m². Averaged across 2 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
21.9 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 €1,100/m², against €888 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
Sambuca Pistoiese is in seismic zone 2. Of the four zones, zone 1 is the highest hazard and zone 4 the lowest. The Department of Civil Protection describes zone 2 as a zone where strong earthquakes are possible.
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 "a. Costa" Porretta Terme (alto, about 19.2 km / 23 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest emergency department: Ospedale a.Costa Porretta Terme (alto Re, Alto Reno Terme (Pronto Soccorso), about 19.2 km / 23 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest DEA (level I or II): Ospedale San Jacopo, Pistoia (DEA level I), about 43.4 km / 43 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest airport: Florence Airport, Peretola (FLR), about 73.8 km / 62 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): In's Mercato, about 15.3 km / 18 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia del Ponte S.a.S. della Dott.Ssa Silvia Rizzi e C., about 0.2 km / 1 minute by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Ponte della Venturina, about 14.9 km / 18 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 Sambuca Pistoiese, 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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