All things you need to know about living in Terralba
Terralba, in the province of Oristano, is home to 6 Britons: 0.06% of its 9,635 residents.
That is the 1210th-highest concentration of Britons among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Sardegna it ranks 58th.
ISTAT counts 177 residents with a foreign citizenship in Terralba, 1.84% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Britons (6), Brazilians (3), Spaniards (3).
That puts Terralba in the bottom ten percent of Italian comuni for foreign residents. Anyone moving here should expect to be unusual.
Terralba qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Oristano scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for burglaries reported and urban green.
It scores in the bottom quarter for overall Fixed Very High Capacity Network (VHCN) coverage and hospital beds in high-care wards.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 31.5°C (89°F) and winters a low of 6.7°C (44°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Terralba sees about 55 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 624mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 89 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
Terralba population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 32 | 0.33% |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 0.06% |
| Poland | 5 | 0.05% |
| Brazil | 3 | 0.03% |
| Spain | 3 | 0.03% |
| Venezuela | 3 | 0.03% |
| Argentina | 2 | 0.02% |
| Mexico | 2 | 0.02% |
| United States | 2 | 0.02% |
| Australia | 1 | 0.01% |
| Canada | 1 | 0.01% |
| France | 1 | 0.01% |
| Croatia | 1 | 0.01% |
| Japan | 1 | 0.01% |
| Russia | 1 | 0.01% |
| Ukraine | 1 | 0.01% |
| Albania | 0 | 0.00% |
| Austria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Belgium | 0 | 0.00% |
| Bulgaria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Switzerland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Cyprus | 0 | 0.00% |
| Czechia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Germany | 0 | 0.00% |
| Denmark | 0 | 0.00% |
| Estonia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Finland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Greece | 0 | 0.00% |
| Hungary | 0 | 0.00% |
| Ireland | 0 | 0.00% |
| South Korea | 0 | 0.00% |
| Lithuania | 0 | 0.00% |
| Luxembourg | 0 | 0.00% |
| Latvia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Malta | 0 | 0.00% |
| Netherlands | 0 | 0.00% |
| Norway | 0 | 0.00% |
| Portugal | 0 | 0.00% |
| Sweden | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovenia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovakia | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 9,311 | 96.64% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 107 | 1.11% |
| Born outside the EU | 217 | 2.25% |
Britons over time
Quality of life in Oristano
Full BES profile for Oristano →Oristano on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Tax regimes
Terralba 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 Terralba is above the Oristano average of €828/m². Averaged across 2 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
22.8 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.
Housing here in excellent condition costs 29% more than ordinary condition — €1,181/m² against €913.
That gap is what the market charges for a place you don’t have to work on. It is not what the work would cost you — OMI prices property, not builders.
Seismic zone
Terralba is in seismic zone 4. Of the four zones, zone 1 is the highest hazard and zone 4 the lowest. The Department of Civil Protection describes zone 4 as the lowest-hazard zone, where a strong earthquake is very unlikely.
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: P. Ospedaliero 'San Martino' - Oristano, about 23.6 km / 21 minutes by road from Terraba/Terralba (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: P. Ospedaliero 'San Martino' - Oristano (DEA level I), about 23.6 km / 21 minutes by road from Terraba/Terralba (the main town).
Nearest airport: Cagliari Elmas Airport (CAG), about 73.4 km / 50 minutes by road from Terraba/Terralba (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Crai, about 0.4 km / 1 minute by road from Terraba/Terralba (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Annis Pierluigi, about 0.5 km / 1 minute by road from Terraba/Terralba (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Marrubiu - Terralba - Arborea, about 3.9 km / 6 minutes by road from Terraba/Terralba (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 Terralba, 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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