All things you need to know about living in San Roberto
San Roberto, in the province of Reggio Calabria, is home to 1 Swiss nationals: 0.07% of its 1,487 residents.
That is the 437th-highest concentration of Swiss nationals among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Calabria it ranks 12th.
ISTAT counts 52 residents with a foreign citizenship in San Roberto, 3.50% of the population. Among the nationalities we follow most closely, the only group is Swiss nationals (1).
San Roberto qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Reggio Calabria scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for burglaries reported.
It scores in the bottom quarter for employment rate (20-64 years old) 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 26.6°C (80°F) and winters a low of 4.6°C (40°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
San Roberto sees about 7 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 968mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 140 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in San Roberto at about €509 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
San Roberto population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 16 | 1.08% |
| Albania | 5 | 0.34% |
| Ukraine | 4 | 0.27% |
| Bulgaria | 2 | 0.13% |
| Poland | 2 | 0.13% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 0.07% |
| Hungary | 1 | 0.07% |
| Argentina | 0 | 0.00% |
| Austria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Belgium | 0 | 0.00% |
| Brazil | 0 | 0.00% |
| Canada | 0 | 0.00% |
| Cyprus | 0 | 0.00% |
| Czechia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Germany | 0 | 0.00% |
| Denmark | 0 | 0.00% |
| Estonia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Spain | 0 | 0.00% |
| Finland | 0 | 0.00% |
| France | 0 | 0.00% |
| United Kingdom | 0 | 0.00% |
| Greece | 0 | 0.00% |
| Croatia | 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% |
| United States | 0 | 0.00% |
| Venezuela | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 1,405 | 94.49% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 33 | 2.22% |
| Born outside the EU | 49 | 3.30% |
Swiss nationals over time
Quality of life in Reggio di Calabria
Full BES profile for Reggio di Calabria →Reggio di Calabria on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Tax regimes
San Roberto 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 San Roberto is well below the Reggio Calabria average of €691/m². Averaged across 2 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
24.9 years of rent here equal the purchase price — 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 €583/m², against €509 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 16% 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
San Roberto is in seismic zone 1. Of the four zones, zone 1 is the highest hazard and zone 4 the lowest. The Department of Civil Protection describes zone 1 as the highest-hazard zone, where strong earthquakes are likely over the long run.
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: Casa di Cura 'Villa Caminiti', about 15.4 km / 16 minutes by road from San Roberto (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Presidio Ospedaliero Riuniti, Reggio di Calabria (DEA level II), about 23.4 km / 25 minutes by road from San Roberto (the main town).
Nearest airport: Reggio Calabria Airport (REG), about 28.1 km / 26 minutes by road from San Roberto (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Supermercato, about 9.6 km / 12 minutes by road from San Roberto (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Motta Claudio, about 0.1 km / 1 minute by road from San Roberto (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Reggio di Calabria Catona, about 11.6 km / 15 minutes by road from San Roberto (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 Roberto, 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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