All things you need to know about living in Santeramo in Colle
Santeramo in Colle, in the province of Bari, is home to 18 Brazilians: 0.07% of its 25,648 residents.
That is the 2446th-highest concentration of Brazilians among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Puglia it ranks 28th.
ISTAT counts 1,357 residents with a foreign citizenship in Santeramo in Colle, 5.29% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Brazilians (18), French nationals (10), Germans (5).
Santeramo in Colle qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Bari scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for overall Fixed Very High Capacity Network (VHCN) coverage and medical specialists.
It scores in the bottom quarter for nonprofit organizations and urban green.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 31.8°C (89°F) and winters a low of 2.8°C (37°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Santeramo in Colle sees about 56 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 658mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 106 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Santeramo in Colle at about €1,125 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
Santeramo in Colle population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Albania | 786 | 3.06% |
| Romania | 78 | 0.30% |
| Ukraine | 21 | 0.08% |
| Brazil | 18 | 0.07% |
| France | 10 | 0.04% |
| Hungary | 7 | 0.03% |
| Germany | 5 | 0.02% |
| Poland | 5 | 0.02% |
| Portugal | 5 | 0.02% |
| Ireland | 3 | 0.01% |
| Bulgaria | 2 | 0.01% |
| Spain | 1 | 0.00% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 0.00% |
| Greece | 1 | 0.00% |
| Croatia | 1 | 0.00% |
| Lithuania | 1 | 0.00% |
| Russia | 1 | 0.00% |
| Slovenia | 1 | 0.00% |
| Argentina | 0 | 0.00% |
| Austria | 0 | 0.00% |
| 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% |
| Finland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Japan | 0 | 0.00% |
| South Korea | 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% |
| Sweden | 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 | 23,514 | 91.68% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 394 | 1.54% |
| Born outside the EU | 1,740 | 6.78% |
Brazilians over time
Quality of life in Bari
Full BES profile for Bari →Bari on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Tax regimes
Santeramo in Colle 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 Santeramo in Colle is below the Bari average of €1,393/m². Averaged across 3 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
24.5 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 €1,130/m², against €1,125 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 6% less per square meter — the opposite of what the two averages above suggest, because OMI prices houses and flats in different parts of town.
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
Santeramo in Colle 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: Ospedale Regionale Ee 'Miulli', about 10.8 km / 12 minutes by road from Santeramo in Colle (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Ospedale Regionale Ee 'Miulli', Acquaviva delle Fonti (DEA level I), about 10.8 km / 12 minutes by road from Santeramo in Colle (the main town).
Nearest airport: Bari Karol Wojtyła International Airport (BRI), about 63.1 km / 45 minutes by road from Santeramo in Colle (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Despar, about 0.7 km / 1 minute by road from Santeramo in Colle (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Sisto Matilde, about 0.2 km / 1 minute by road from Santeramo in Colle (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Santeramo in Colle, about 1.8 km / 2 minutes by road from Santeramo in Colle (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 Santeramo in Colle, 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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