All things you need to know about living in Sulmona
Sulmona, in the province of L'Aquila, is home to 50 Venezuelans: 0.23% of its 21,759 residents.
That is the 109th-highest concentration of Venezuelans among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Abruzzo it ranks 22nd.
ISTAT counts 1,221 residents with a foreign citizenship in Sulmona, 5.61% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Venezuelans (50), Spaniards (7), Britons (7).
Sulmona qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of L'Aquila scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for PM10 Annual average concentration and hospital beds in high-care wards.
It scores in the bottom quarter for density and importance of museums' heritage and 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 27.5°C (82°F) and winters a low of -1.8°C (29°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Sulmona sees about 17 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 1,102mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 151 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Sulmona at about €655 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
Sulmona population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 478 | 2.20% |
| Albania | 144 | 0.66% |
| Ukraine | 68 | 0.31% |
| Venezuela | 50 | 0.23% |
| Poland | 20 | 0.09% |
| Lithuania | 8 | 0.04% |
| Bulgaria | 7 | 0.03% |
| Spain | 7 | 0.03% |
| United Kingdom | 7 | 0.03% |
| United States | 7 | 0.03% |
| Argentina | 6 | 0.03% |
| Croatia | 5 | 0.02% |
| Germany | 3 | 0.01% |
| France | 3 | 0.01% |
| Australia | 2 | 0.01% |
| Canada | 2 | 0.01% |
| Czechia | 2 | 0.01% |
| Latvia | 2 | 0.01% |
| Mexico | 2 | 0.01% |
| Slovakia | 2 | 0.01% |
| Austria | 1 | 0.00% |
| Brazil | 1 | 0.00% |
| Greece | 1 | 0.00% |
| Hungary | 1 | 0.00% |
| Japan | 1 | 0.00% |
| Portugal | 1 | 0.00% |
| Russia | 1 | 0.00% |
| Belgium | 0 | 0.00% |
| Switzerland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Cyprus | 0 | 0.00% |
| Denmark | 0 | 0.00% |
| Estonia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Finland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Ireland | 0 | 0.00% |
| South Korea | 0 | 0.00% |
| Luxembourg | 0 | 0.00% |
| Malta | 0 | 0.00% |
| Netherlands | 0 | 0.00% |
| Norway | 0 | 0.00% |
| Sweden | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovenia | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 19,485 | 89.55% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 659 | 3.03% |
| Born outside the EU | 1,615 | 7.42% |
Venezuelans over time
Quality of life in L'Aquila
Full BES profile for L'Aquila →L'Aquila on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Tax regimes
Sulmona 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
About the L'Aquila average of €704/m². Averaged across 7 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
26.1 years of rent here equal the purchase price — 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 €719/m², against €655 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 10% 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
Sulmona is in seismic zone 1. Of the four zones, zone 1 is the highest hazard and zone 4 the lowest. The Department of Civil Protection describes zone 1 as the highest-hazard zone, where strong earthquakes are likely over the long run.
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: PO Sulmona ' Dell' Annunziata', about 1.5 km / 2 minutes by road from Sulmona (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: PO Sulmona ' Dell' Annunziata' (DEA level I), about 1.5 km / 2 minutes by road from Sulmona (the main town).
Nearest airport: Abruzzo Airport (PSR), about 70.4 km / 44 minutes by road from Sulmona (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Tigre, about 0.8 km / 1 minute by road from Sulmona (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Delfino Gino, about 0.2 km / 1 minute by road from Sulmona (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Sulmona Introdacqua, about 1.8 km / 2 minutes by road from Sulmona (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 Sulmona, 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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