Foreign residents in Sessa Cilento

Salerno, Campania · Population 1,131 · Median age 50 · Indice di vecchiaia 235.4 (2019)

Data as of 2026-08-09· ISTAT

Sessa Cilento, in the province of Salerno, is home to 1 Americans — 0.09% of its 1,131 residents. That is the 411th-highest concentration of Americans of any of the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents, and 19th within Campania.

Across the nationalities we track, Sessa Cilento counts 1 foreign residents in total, 0.09% of the population. The largest groups are Americans (1).

Over the period 2019–2025, the number of Americans in Sessa Cilento has held roughly steady, from 1 to 1 (+0%).

Separately, ISTAT's census data shows 6.0% of Sessa Cilento's population was born outside Italy — 1.2% outside the EU and 4.8% elsewhere in the EU. ISTAT does not publish this broken down by specific country at comune level, so it isn't directly comparable to the per-nationality citizenship figures above.

Population over time

20022025. ISTAT’s intercensal population reconstruction (2002–2018) and resident-population registry (2019 onward).

By nationality

NationalityCitizensShare
United States10.09%
Argentina00.00%
Austria00.00%
Australia00.00%
Belgium00.00%
Brazil00.00%
Canada00.00%
Switzerland00.00%
Germany00.00%
Denmark00.00%
Spain00.00%
Finland00.00%
France00.00%
United Kingdom00.00%
Greece00.00%
Ireland00.00%
Japan00.00%
South Korea00.00%
Mexico00.00%
Netherlands00.00%
Norway00.00%
Portugal00.00%
Russia00.00%
Sweden00.00%
Venezuela00.00%

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

Country of birth

GroupResidentsShare
Born in Italy1,06393.99%
Born elsewhere in the EU544.77%
Born outside the EU141.24%

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.

Americans over time

Quality of life in Salerno

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.

Safety76
Landscape and cultural heritage60
Quality of services55
Environment53
Education and training39
Economic well-being26
Work and life balance19
Health17
Social relationships11

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

Tax regimes

Sessa Cilento 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

580 /

To rent

1.55 /m²/month

Buying in Sessa Cilento is far below the Salerno average of €1,213/m². Averaged across 2 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.

Buy or rent

31.2 years of rent here equal the purchase pricewell 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.

House or apartment

A detached house here averages 723/m², against €580 for an apartment.

Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighbourhood — a house costs 24% more per square metre.

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 metre, but in 450 comuni it costs less — worth checking rather than assuming.

Compare every comune on the map →

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. Source.

Nearby comuni

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