All things you need to know about living in San Pancrazio Salentino
San Pancrazio Salentino, in the province of Brindisi, is home to 5 Germans: 0.06% of its 9,031 residents.
That is the 1853rd-highest concentration of Germans among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Puglia it ranks 50th.
ISTAT counts 192 residents with a foreign citizenship in San Pancrazio Salentino, 2.13% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Germans (5), Russians (2), Spaniards (1).
San Pancrazio Salentino qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime.
It scores in the bottom quarter for intentional homicide rate and average disposable income per capita.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 32.9°C (91°F) and winters a low of 7.3°C (45°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
San Pancrazio Salentino sees about 69 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 593mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 88 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
Between 2019 and 2025, the number of Germans in San Pancrazio Salentino rose from 4 to 5.
ISTAT's census data puts 4.0% of San Pancrazio Salentino's population as born outside Italy: 2.4% outside the EU and 1.6% elsewhere in the EU. ISTAT does not publish this by specific country at comune level, so it does not line up with the citizenship figures above.
San Pancrazio Salentino population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 18 | 0.20% |
| Albania | 9 | 0.10% |
| Germany | 5 | 0.06% |
| Poland | 4 | 0.04% |
| Ukraine | 4 | 0.04% |
| Russia | 2 | 0.02% |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 0.01% |
| Spain | 1 | 0.01% |
| Greece | 1 | 0.01% |
| Japan | 1 | 0.01% |
| United States | 1 | 0.01% |
| Argentina | 0 | 0.00% |
| Austria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Belgium | 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% |
| Finland | 0 | 0.00% |
| France | 0 | 0.00% |
| United Kingdom | 0 | 0.00% |
| Croatia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Hungary | 0 | 0.00% |
| Ireland | 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% |
| 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 | 8,668 | 95.98% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 149 | 1.65% |
| Born outside the EU | 214 | 2.37% |
Germans over time
Quality of life in Brindisi
Full BES profile for Brindisi →Brindisi on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Tax regimes
San Pancrazio Salentino 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 →Seismic zone
San Pancrazio Salentino 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: Ospedale Manduria 'Giannuzzi', about 27.1 km / 25 minutes by road from San Pancrazio Salentino (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Ospedale Manduria 'Giannuzzi' (DEA level I), about 27.1 km / 25 minutes by road from San Pancrazio Salentino (the main town).
Nearest airport: Brindisi Airport (BDS), about 35.9 km / 37 minutes by road from San Pancrazio Salentino (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Metà, about 0.6 km / 1 minute by road from San Pancrazio Salentino (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Nuova, about 0.4 km / 1 minute by road from San Pancrazio Salentino (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): San Pancrazio Salentino, about 0.7 km / 2 minutes by road from San Pancrazio Salentino (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 San Pancrazio Salentino, 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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