All things you need to know about living in San Sostene
San Sostene, in the province of Catanzaro, is home to 2 Latvians: 0.14% of its 1,394 residents.
That is the 17th-highest concentration of Latvians among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Calabria it ranks 1st.
ISTAT counts 56 residents with a foreign citizenship in San Sostene, 4.02% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Argentinians (1), Swiss nationals (1), Americans (1).
San Sostene qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Catanzaro scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for hospital beds in high-care wards and medical specialists.
It scores in the bottom quarter for density and importance of museums' heritage and employment rate (20-64 years old).
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 29.6°C (85°F) and winters a low of 6.5°C (44°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
San Sostene sees about 31 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 802mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 104 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in San Sostene at about €658 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
San Sostene population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 7 | 0.50% |
| Bulgaria | 3 | 0.22% |
| Latvia | 2 | 0.14% |
| Poland | 2 | 0.14% |
| Ukraine | 2 | 0.14% |
| Argentina | 1 | 0.07% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 0.07% |
| United States | 1 | 0.07% |
| Albania | 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% |
| 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% |
| 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% |
| Venezuela | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 1,304 | 93.54% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 27 | 1.94% |
| Born outside the EU | 63 | 4.52% |
Latvians over time
Quality of life in Catanzaro
Full BES profile for Catanzaro →Catanzaro on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Tax regimes
San Sostene 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 Sostene is below the Catanzaro average of €794/m². Averaged across 3 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
19.7 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 €835/m², against €658 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 17% 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.
Nearby comuni
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