All things you need to know about living in Santa Maria Nuova
Santa Maria Nuova, in the province of Ancona, is home to 6 Germans: 0.15% of its 3,913 residents.
That is the 728th-highest concentration of Germans among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Marche it ranks 44th.
ISTAT counts 315 residents with a foreign citizenship in Santa Maria Nuova, 8.05% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Germans (6), Argentinians (3), Brazilians (2).
That is above the national average for an Italian comune, which is 7.30%.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Ancona scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for medical specialists and life expectancy at birth.
It scores in the bottom quarter for intentional homicide rate.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 30.6°C (87°F) and winters a low of 2.5°C (37°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Santa Maria Nuova sees about 45 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 756mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 109 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Santa Maria Nuova at about €785 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
Santa Maria Nuova population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 61 | 1.56% |
| Albania | 53 | 1.35% |
| Ukraine | 8 | 0.20% |
| Germany | 6 | 0.15% |
| Poland | 5 | 0.13% |
| Argentina | 3 | 0.08% |
| Brazil | 2 | 0.05% |
| Netherlands | 2 | 0.05% |
| Russia | 2 | 0.05% |
| Belgium | 1 | 0.03% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 0.03% |
| France | 1 | 0.03% |
| Hungary | 1 | 0.03% |
| South Korea | 1 | 0.03% |
| Austria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Bulgaria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Canada | 0 | 0.00% |
| Cyprus | 0 | 0.00% |
| Czechia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Denmark | 0 | 0.00% |
| Estonia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Spain | 0 | 0.00% |
| Finland | 0 | 0.00% |
| United Kingdom | 0 | 0.00% |
| Greece | 0 | 0.00% |
| Croatia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Ireland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Japan | 0 | 0.00% |
| Lithuania | 0 | 0.00% |
| Luxembourg | 0 | 0.00% |
| Latvia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Malta | 0 | 0.00% |
| Mexico | 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% |
| Venezuela | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 3,445 | 88.04% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 100 | 2.56% |
| Born outside the EU | 368 | 9.40% |
Germans over time
Quality of life in Ancona
Full BES profile for Ancona →Ancona on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Property prices
Buying in Santa Maria Nuova is well below the Ancona average of €1,117/m². Averaged across 2 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
31.2 years of rent here equal the purchase price — well 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 €895/m², against €785 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 14% 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 Maria Nuova is in seismic zone 2. Of the four zones, zone 1 is the highest hazard and zone 4 the lowest. The Department of Civil Protection describes zone 2 as a zone where strong earthquakes are possible.
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: Stabilimento di Jesi, about 12 km / 13 minutes by road from Santa Maria Nuova (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Stabilimento di Jesi (DEA level I), about 12 km / 13 minutes by road from Santa Maria Nuova (the main town).
Nearest airport: Marche Airport (AOI), about 21 km / 16 minutes by road from Santa Maria Nuova (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Maxi Coal, about 0.7 km / 1 minute by road from Santa Maria Nuova (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Calcaterra Giovanni, about 1.9 km / 2 minutes by road from Santa Maria Nuova (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Jesi, about 8.7 km / 9 minutes by road from Santa Maria Nuova (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 Maria Nuova, 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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