All things you need to know about living in Val di Nizza
Val di Nizza, in the province of Pavia, is home to 2 Germans: 0.35% of its 575 residents.
ISTAT counts 52 residents with a foreign citizenship in Val di Nizza, 9.04% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Germans (2), Brazilians (1), Swedes (1).
That is above the national average for an Italian comune, which is 7.30%.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Pavia scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for medical specialists.
It scores in the bottom quarter for burglaries reported 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 27.8°C (82°F) and winters a low of -1.1°C (30°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Val di Nizza sees about 15 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 988mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 116 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Val di Nizza at about €810 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
That is below most Italian comuni.
Between 2019 and 2025, the number of Germans in Val di Nizza rose from 1 to 2.
Val di Nizza population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Ukraine | 22 | 3.83% |
| Romania | 11 | 1.91% |
| Germany | 2 | 0.35% |
| Brazil | 1 | 0.17% |
| Lithuania | 1 | 0.17% |
| Sweden | 1 | 0.17% |
| Albania | 0 | 0.00% |
| Argentina | 0 | 0.00% |
| Austria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Belgium | 0 | 0.00% |
| Bulgaria | 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% |
| 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% |
| Slovenia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovakia | 0 | 0.00% |
| United States | 0 | 0.00% |
| Venezuela | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 504 | 87.65% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 22 | 3.83% |
| Born outside the EU | 49 | 8.52% |
Germans over time
Quality of life in Pavia
Full BES profile for Pavia →Pavia on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Property prices
Buying in Val di Nizza is well below the Pavia average of €1,069/m². Averaged across 2 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town. OMI records no rental figures here.
Housing here in excellent condition costs 4% more than ordinary condition — €845/m² against €810.
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 €820/m², against €810 for an apartment.
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
Val di Nizza 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.
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Nearest hospital: Ospedale SS.Annunziata - Varzi, about 12.9 km / 16 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest emergency department: Ospedale SS.Annunziata - Varzi (Pronto Soccorso), about 12.9 km / 16 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest DEA (level I or II): Ospedale Civile - Voghera (DEA level I), about 28.8 km / 28 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest airport: Milano Linate Airport (LIN), about 103.3 km / 75 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Ex Super Crenna - Affiliato Gulliver, about 14.9 km / 13 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Farmagora' Ponte Nizza S.R.L., about 8.9 km / 8 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Voghera, about 29.4 km / 29 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
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 Val di Nizza, 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.
Nearby comuni
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