All things you need to know about living in Trento
Trento, in the province of Trento, is home to 147 Brazilians: 0.12% of its 118,640 residents.
That is the 1194th-highest concentration of Brazilians among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol it ranks 28th.
ISTAT counts 13,574 residents with a foreign citizenship in Trento, 11.44% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Brazilians (147), Germans (127), Spaniards (119).
That is above the national average for an Italian comune, which is 7.30%.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Trento scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces 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 23.3°C (74°F) and winters a low of -3.9°C (25°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Trento sees about 0 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 1,365mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 169 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Trento at about €2,398 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
At those figures, buying costs about 26.4 years of renting the same property.
Trento population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 2,046 | 1.72% |
| Albania | 1,092 | 0.92% |
| Ukraine | 1,007 | 0.85% |
| Poland | 204 | 0.17% |
| Brazil | 147 | 0.12% |
| Germany | 127 | 0.11% |
| Spain | 119 | 0.10% |
| Russia | 119 | 0.10% |
| Bulgaria | 114 | 0.10% |
| France | 51 | 0.04% |
| United States | 48 | 0.04% |
| United Kingdom | 47 | 0.04% |
| Venezuela | 47 | 0.04% |
| Argentina | 37 | 0.03% |
| Greece | 32 | 0.03% |
| Czechia | 27 | 0.02% |
| Croatia | 27 | 0.02% |
| Portugal | 26 | 0.02% |
| Japan | 21 | 0.02% |
| Netherlands | 21 | 0.02% |
| Austria | 18 | 0.02% |
| Lithuania | 17 | 0.01% |
| Hungary | 16 | 0.01% |
| Belgium | 13 | 0.01% |
| Slovakia | 12 | 0.01% |
| Mexico | 11 | 0.01% |
| Slovenia | 11 | 0.01% |
| Sweden | 10 | 0.01% |
| Canada | 9 | 0.01% |
| Ireland | 9 | 0.01% |
| Cyprus | 8 | 0.01% |
| Switzerland | 6 | 0.01% |
| Denmark | 6 | 0.01% |
| Latvia | 6 | 0.01% |
| Norway | 6 | 0.01% |
| Finland | 5 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 4 | 0.00% |
| South Korea | 3 | 0.00% |
| Estonia | 1 | 0.00% |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 0.00% |
| Malta | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 98,771 | 83.25% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 3,074 | 2.59% |
| Born outside the EU | 16,795 | 14.16% |
Brazilians over time
Quality of life in Trento
Full BES profile for Trento →Trento on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Property prices
Buying in Trento is above the Trento average of €1,964/m². Averaged across 32 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
26.4 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.
Housing here in excellent condition costs 39% more than ordinary condition — €3,327/m² against €2,398.
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.
A detached house here averages €2,369/m², against €2,398 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 6% more 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
Trento 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: Casa di Cura Villa Bianca, about 0.6 km / 1 minute by road from Trento (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Presidio Ospedaliero S. Chiara, Trento (DEA level II), about 1.9 km / 3 minutes by road from Trento (the main town).
Nearest airport: Bolzano Airport (BZO), about 57.8 km / 34 minutes by road from Trento (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Eurospar, about 0.7 km / 1 minute by road from Trento (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Dall'Armi Snc Pattini Dr. Alberto e Dr.Ssa Alessandra, about 0.6 km / 1 minute by road from Trento (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Trento, about 1.3 km / 2 minutes by road from Trento (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 Trento, 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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