All things you need to know about living in Santa Croce sull'Arno
Santa Croce sull'Arno, in the province of Pisa, is home to 15 Venezuelans: 0.10% of its 14,941 residents.
That is the 369th-highest concentration of Venezuelans among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Toscana it ranks 11th.
ISTAT counts 3,441 residents with a foreign citizenship in Santa Croce sull'Arno, 23.03% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Venezuelans (15), Brazilians (11), Greeks (7).
That is above the national average for an Italian comune, which is 7.30%.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Pisa scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for medical specialists and density and importance of museums' heritage.
It scores in the bottom quarter for burglaries reported and overall Fixed Very High Capacity Network (VHCN) coverage.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 30.8°C (87°F) and winters a low of 2.3°C (36°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Santa Croce sull'Arno sees about 49 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 1,009mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 115 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Santa Croce sull'Arno at about €1,205 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
Santa Croce sull'Arno population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Albania | 929 | 6.22% |
| Romania | 131 | 0.88% |
| Ukraine | 27 | 0.18% |
| Venezuela | 15 | 0.10% |
| Bulgaria | 12 | 0.08% |
| Brazil | 11 | 0.07% |
| Poland | 10 | 0.07% |
| Greece | 7 | 0.05% |
| Germany | 5 | 0.03% |
| Russia | 4 | 0.03% |
| Spain | 3 | 0.02% |
| France | 3 | 0.02% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 0.01% |
| Hungary | 2 | 0.01% |
| Mexico | 2 | 0.01% |
| Argentina | 1 | 0.01% |
| Austria | 1 | 0.01% |
| Finland | 1 | 0.01% |
| Japan | 1 | 0.01% |
| Lithuania | 1 | 0.01% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Belgium | 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% |
| Croatia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Ireland | 0 | 0.00% |
| South Korea | 0 | 0.00% |
| Luxembourg | 0 | 0.00% |
| Latvia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Malta | 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% |
| United States | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 10,919 | 73.08% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 276 | 1.85% |
| Born outside the EU | 3,746 | 25.07% |
Venezuelans over time
Quality of life in Pisa
Full BES profile for Pisa →Pisa on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Property prices
Buying in Santa Croce sull'Arno is below the Pisa average of €1,462/m². Averaged across 2 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
22 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 €1,388/m², against €1,205 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 15% 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
Santa Croce sull'Arno 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.
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Nearest hospital: Ospedale San Pietro Igneo, about 4.7 km / 6 minutes by road from Santa Croce sull'Arno (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Ospedale S. Giuseppe, Empoli (DEA level I), about 17 km / 15 minutes by road from Santa Croce sull'Arno (the main town).
Nearest airport: Pisa International Airport (PSA), about 39.8 km / 29 minutes by road from Santa Croce sull'Arno (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Conad, about 0.9 km / 2 minutes by road from Santa Croce sull'Arno (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Farmavasco, about 0.2 km / 1 minute by road from Santa Croce sull'Arno (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): San Romano-Montopoli-Santa Croce, about 4.1 km / 6 minutes by road from Santa Croce sull'Arno (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 Santa Croce sull'Arno, 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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