€478per m² to buy, residentialOMI · 2025H2 · comune

2,122residents at the last countISTAT · comune

3.35%hold a foreign citizenshipISTAT · citizenship

2.36%hold one of the 41 citizenships we trackISTAT · citizenship

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All things you need to know about living in Santa Sofia d'Epiro

Cosenza, Calabria · Population 2,122 · Median age 50 · Indice di vecchiaia 262.6 (2019)

Data as of 2026-10-13· ISTAT

The well-being figures below are for the province, not the town. The rest of this page is comune-level.

Nationality

Santa Sofia d'Epiro, in the province of Cosenza, is home to 2 Britons: 0.09% of its 2,122 residents.

That is the 803rd-highest concentration of Britons among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.

Within Calabria it ranks 28th.

ISTAT counts 71 residents with a foreign citizenship in Santa Sofia d'Epiro, 3.35% of the population. Among the nationalities we follow most closely, the only group is Britons (2).

Santa Sofia d'Epiro qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime.

On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Cosenza scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for burglaries reported and PM10 Annual average concentration.

It scores in the bottom quarter for employment rate (20-64 years old) and life expectancy at birth.

These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.

Summers average a high of 31.4°C (89°F) and winters a low of 5.7°C (42°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.

Santa Sofia d'Epiro sees about 54 days a year above 30°C (86°F).

It gets about 802mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 119 days.

These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.

OMI puts residential purchase prices in Santa Sofia d'Epiro at about €478 per square meter in the second half of 2025.

Santa Sofia d'Epiro population over time

2002–2025. ISTAT’s intercensal population reconstruction (2002–2018) and resident-population registry (2019 onward).

By nationality

Nationality	Citizens	Share
Romania	23	1.08%
Ukraine	12	0.57%
Bulgaria	4	0.19%
Estonia	4	0.19%
Poland	3	0.14%
United Kingdom	2	0.09%
Albania	1	0.05%
Slovakia	1	0.05%
Argentina	0	0.00%
Austria	0	0.00%
Australia	0	0.00%
Belgium	0	0.00%
Brazil	0	0.00%
Canada	0	0.00%
Switzerland	0	0.00%
Cyprus	0	0.00%
Czechia	0	0.00%
Germany	0	0.00%
Denmark	0	0.00%
Spain	0	0.00%
Finland	0	0.00%
France	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%
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%
United States	0	0.00%
Venezuela	0	0.00%

“Citizens” counts residents holding that country’s citizenship, from ISTAT’s population registry.

Country of birth

Group	Residents	Share
Born in Italy	1,986	93.59%
Born elsewhere in the EU	64	3.02%
Born outside the EU	72	3.39%

From ISTAT’s census data. Broad groups only — ISTAT does not publish comune-level population by specific country of birth, so this isn’t comparable per-nationality to the citizenship table above. See about the data.

Britons over time

Quality of life in Cosenza

Province-level well-being (BES), by domain — percentile rank against Italy’s other provinces. Higher is always better here, regardless of the underlying indicator’s direction.

Environment76

Safety43

Education and training42

Quality of services22

Social relationships18

Landscape and cultural heritage16

Economic well-being12

Health6

Work and life balance5

Full BES profile for Cosenza →Cosenza on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →

Tax regimes

Santa Sofia d'Epiro 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 →

This lists the regimes we’ve published. Others exist that we haven’t encoded yet — we add one only once it has been checked against the legislation — so this isn’t a complete account of what might apply to you.

Property prices

To buy

€478 /m²

To rent

€1.80 /m²/month

Buying in Santa Sofia d'Epiro is well below the Cosenza average of €795/m². Based on a single OMI micro-zone, so it describes the town as one market.

Buy or rent

22.1 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.

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Agenzia delle Entrate — Osservatorio del Mercato Immobiliare (OMI), semester 2025 H2. Figures are midpoints of OMI’s surveyed ranges for “Abitazioni civili” in normal condition — a guide to the market, not a valuation of any particular property. OMI is Agenzia delle Entrate’s official range of market values per m², built from recorded sales and appraisals. Asking prices on listing sites are what sellers hope for, and usually run higher. Source.

Seismic zone

Santa Sofia d'Epiro 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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Fonte: Dipartimento della Protezione Civile-Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri, classification updated to 31 May 2025 (CC BY 4.0). Source table. Each Region classifies its own comuni by its own act, so a Region’s change shows up here only after the Department updates its table.

Hospital, airport and daily-needs distance

Nearest hospital: P.O.Beato Angelico, about 15.5 km / 18 minutes by road from Santa Sofia d'Epiro (the main town).

The nearest hospital with inpatient beds in the Ministero della Salute's 2023 list. A hospital with beds is not necessarily one with an emergency department. Ministero della Salute (2023); positions and roads © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). See every comune on the map

Nearest emergency department: P.O.Beato Angelico, Acri (Pronto Soccorso), about 15.5 km / 18 minutes by road from Santa Sofia d'Epiro (the main town).

The nearest hospital the Ministero della Salute lists in its emergency network (31 December 2025) as DEA level I or II or Pronto Soccorso. A Pronto Soccorso is not the same as a DEA: a DEA is a larger emergency department with more specialties on site. It is not a service guarantee; confirm with the local health authority. Ministero della Salute (emergency network, 2025); positions and roads © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). See every comune on the map

Nearest DEA (level I or II): Presidio Ospedaliero Annunziata, Cosenza (DEA level II), about 45 km / 37 minutes by road from Santa Sofia d'Epiro (the main town).

The nearest hospital the Ministero della Salute lists in its emergency network (31 December 2025) as DEA level I or II, leaving out Pronto Soccorso sites. A DEA is a larger emergency department with more specialties on site; level II adds the most complex care. It is not a service guarantee. Ministero della Salute (emergency network, 2025); positions and roads © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). See every comune on the map

Nearest airport: Lamezia Terme Sant'Eufemia International Airport (SUF), about 106.1 km / 74 minutes by road from Santa Sofia d'Epiro (the main town).

The nearest of the airports where ENAC recorded at least 4,000 passengers in 2025; this leaves out two airports that carried almost none (Taranto-Grottaglie, Brescia-Montichiari). It says nothing about flights or routes. ENAC (2025); OurAirports; roads © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). See every comune on the map

Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Conad City, about 0.6 km / 1 minute by road from Santa Sofia d'Epiro (the main town).

The nearest supermarket as OpenStreetMap volunteers have mapped it. There is no official national list, so a store missing from the map is missing here. Small grocers and corner shops are not counted, so a village with a local alimentari but no supermarket shows a longer time than its real food shopping. © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). See every comune on the map

Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Meringolo Annina, about 5.5 km / 8 minutes by road from Santa Sofia d'Epiro (the main town).

The nearest pharmacy in the Ministero della Salute's open register (ordinary and branch pharmacies; dispensari with limited hours are left out). It says nothing about opening hours or night and Sunday duty. Ministero della Salute (open register of pharmacies, IODL 2.0); roads © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). See every comune on the map

Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Mongrassano-Cervicati, about 13.8 km / 17 minutes by road from Santa Sofia d'Epiro (the main town).

The nearest railway station with passenger service as OpenStreetMap volunteers have mapped it (metro, tram, funicular and heritage lines are left out). RFI publishes no national open list. It does not say how often trains stop there or where they go. © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). See every comune on the map

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 Sofia d'Epiro, 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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