All things you need to know about living in Ussassai
Ussassai, in the province of Ogliastra, is home to 2 Germans: 0.46% of its 439 residents.
ISTAT counts 7 residents with a foreign citizenship in Ussassai, 1.59% of the population. Among the nationalities we follow most closely, the two groups are Germans (2) and Argentinians (1).
That puts Ussassai in the bottom ten percent of Italian comuni for foreign residents. Anyone moving here should expect to be unusual.
These are small numbers, so we would not read much into the percentage or any change in it.
Ussassai qualifies for the 7% pensioner regime.
Summers average a high of 31.2°C (88°F) and winters a low of 3.5°C (38°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Ussassai sees about 45 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 641mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 98 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
Between 2019 and 2025, the number of Germans in Ussassai rose from 1 to 2.
ISTAT's census data puts 4.8% of Ussassai's population as born outside Italy: 1.6% outside the EU and 3.2% elsewhere in the EU. ISTAT does not publish this by specific country at comune level, so it does not line up with the citizenship figures above.
Ussassai population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 3 | 0.68% |
| Germany | 2 | 0.46% |
| Argentina | 1 | 0.23% |
| Albania | 0 | 0.00% |
| Austria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Belgium | 0 | 0.00% |
| Bulgaria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Brazil | 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% |
| Spain | 0 | 0.00% |
| Finland | 0 | 0.00% |
| France | 0 | 0.00% |
| United Kingdom | 0 | 0.00% |
| Greece | 0 | 0.00% |
| Croatia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Hungary | 0 | 0.00% |
| Ireland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Japan | 0 | 0.00% |
| South Korea | 0 | 0.00% |
| Lithuania | 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% |
| Poland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Portugal | 0 | 0.00% |
| Russia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Sweden | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovenia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovakia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Ukraine | 0 | 0.00% |
| United States | 0 | 0.00% |
| Venezuela | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 418 | 95.22% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 14 | 3.19% |
| Born outside the EU | 7 | 1.59% |
Germans over time
Tax regimes
Ussassai 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 →Seismic zone
Ussassai 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: Clinica Tommasini SRL, about 25.9 km / 22 minutes by road from Ussassa/Ussassai (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: P.O. 'Nostra Signora della Mercede', Lanusei (Pronto Soccorso), about 35.6 km / 27 minutes by road from Ussassa/Ussassai (the main town).
Nearest DEA (level I or II): P.O. San Francesco, Nuoro (DEA level I), about 94.7 km / 71 minutes by road from Ussassa/Ussassai (the main town).
Nearest airport: Cagliari Elmas Airport (CAG), about 114.1 km / 85 minutes by road from Ussassa/Ussassai (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Supermarket, about 0.5 km / 1 minute by road from Ussassa/Ussassai (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Bullegas Andrea, about 0.5 km / 1 minute by road from Ussassa/Ussassai (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Ussassai, about 8.8 km / 7 minutes by road from Ussassa/Ussassai (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 Ussassai, 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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