All things you need to know about living in San Salvo
San Salvo, in the province of Chieti, is home to 16 Argentinians: 0.08% of its 19,890 residents.
That is the 602nd-highest concentration of Argentinians among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Abruzzo it ranks 28th.
ISTAT counts 1,674 residents with a foreign citizenship in San Salvo, 8.42% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Argentinians (16), Germans (13), Brazilians (9).
That is above the national average for an Italian comune, which is 7.30%.
San Salvo qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Chieti scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for people with at least upper secondary education level (25-64 years old) and medical specialists.
It scores in the bottom quarter for urban green and road mortality in non-urban roads.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 29.7°C (85°F) and winters a low of 4.4°C (40°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
San Salvo sees about 36 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 690mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 92 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
San Salvo population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 753 | 3.79% |
| Albania | 186 | 0.94% |
| Ukraine | 25 | 0.13% |
| Poland | 22 | 0.11% |
| Argentina | 16 | 0.08% |
| Germany | 13 | 0.07% |
| Lithuania | 13 | 0.07% |
| Brazil | 9 | 0.05% |
| Spain | 7 | 0.04% |
| France | 5 | 0.03% |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 0.03% |
| United States | 4 | 0.02% |
| Russia | 3 | 0.02% |
| Canada | 2 | 0.01% |
| Czechia | 2 | 0.01% |
| Greece | 2 | 0.01% |
| Slovakia | 2 | 0.01% |
| Venezuela | 2 | 0.01% |
| Belgium | 1 | 0.01% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 0.01% |
| Finland | 1 | 0.01% |
| Croatia | 1 | 0.01% |
| Hungary | 1 | 0.01% |
| Ireland | 1 | 0.01% |
| Latvia | 1 | 0.01% |
| Portugal | 1 | 0.01% |
| Slovenia | 1 | 0.01% |
| Austria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Bulgaria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Cyprus | 0 | 0.00% |
| Denmark | 0 | 0.00% |
| Estonia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Japan | 0 | 0.00% |
| South Korea | 0 | 0.00% |
| Luxembourg | 0 | 0.00% |
| Malta | 0 | 0.00% |
| Mexico | 0 | 0.00% |
| Netherlands | 0 | 0.00% |
| Norway | 0 | 0.00% |
| Sweden | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 17,329 | 87.12% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 1,168 | 5.87% |
| Born outside the EU | 1,393 | 7.00% |
Argentinians over time
Quality of life in Chieti
Full BES profile for Chieti →Chieti on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Tax regimes
San Salvo 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 Salvo is above the Chieti average of €905/m². Averaged across 5 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
19.6 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.
A detached house here averages €1,172/m², against €1,072 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 10% 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 Salvo 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.
See every comune on the map →Hospital, airport and daily-needs distance
Nearest hospital: P.O. Vasto 'S. Pio da Pietralcina', about 12.8 km / 16 minutes by road from San Salvo (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: P.O. Vasto 'San Pio da Pietrelcina' (DEA level I), about 12.8 km / 16 minutes by road from San Salvo (the main town).
Nearest airport: Abruzzo Airport (PSR), about 83.9 km / 49 minutes by road from San Salvo (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): EuroSpin, about 0.4 km / 1 minute by road from San Salvo (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Di Nardo SRL, about 0 km / 1 minute by road from San Salvo (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Vasto-San Salvo, about 5.8 km / 9 minutes by road from San Salvo (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 Salvo, 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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