AQ · Abruzzo
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The short version
Pacentro is a village of about 1,100 people in the hills at 688 m in Abruzzo.
It has a shop, a pharmacy, a bar and a restaurant, but no doctor — for those you drive. The population is ageing: on births and deaths alone there would be about 200 people fewer here in twenty years.
We could measure 6 of the 9 things we look at in a village. We have nothing yet on the weather, internet speed and air quality, so those are left out of every score below rather than counted as zero.
A note on the data
No headline measurements are available for this village yet.
On the map
The village in Italy, then in its region with the nearest others we have measured — and how far the outside world is from it. Distances are straight-line unless labelled as a drive. We never mix the two.
Boundaries from ISTAT administrative limits via openpolis/geojson-italy, licensed CC BY 4.0, simplified for drawing. Position from Wikidata. Distances are straight-line.
How it scores
Each line is one question, answered from measured data and rated from poor to excellent. A low mark does not mean a bad village. It means you would have to drive, or wait, or put up with something.
Good
Daily needs in the village itself. The basics are here; the rest is a drive
Fair
How reachable the outside world is. Reachable, with some planning
Fair
Is the population holding or draining away. Shrinking slowly, like most of rural Italy
Very good
Signs of life: bars, places to eat, places to stay. Visible signs of life for a small place
Good
Foreigners already living there. An established foreign community
Excellent
What property actually costs. Cheap by any measure
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What it costs
Agenzia delle Entrate OMI valuation bands for the second half of 2025. These are official valuation ranges, not asking prices, and the courts treat them as indications of broad magnitude rather than an appraisal.
Pacentro against every village we have priced
cheaper than 85% of the villages we have priced
Kernel density over 568 comuni. The long right tail is the ski and coastal market; most villages sit in the dense cluster on the left.
OMI range for residential
median across 2 zone(s)
EUR 395 – EUR 585
Rent
same source, same zones
EUR 2.1 / m² a month
Who else is here
Resident foreigners by citizenship, from ISTAT's 1 January 2025 count. Residents, not holiday-home owners — someone who registered with the town hall.
Foreign residents
5.1% of Pacentro
54
From northern and western Europe, or the anglosphere
1.2% of residents
13
Largest groups
Romania
19
Ukraine
7
Tunisia
5
United Kingdom
4
Ivory Coast
3
Nigeria
3
Daily life
Counted inside the municipal boundary, from OpenStreetMap.
4
Groceries
3
Bars & cafés
7
Restaurants
1
Pharmacies
1
Post offices
3
Schools
3
Places to stay
7
Sports grounds
Not in the village: a doctor, a bank or cash machine, a petrol station, a coworking space. For those, you drive.
The honest part
Counting births and deaths only, the population would change by -21.2% over twenty years. It assumes nobody moves in or out, so treat it as the direction of travel rather than a prediction.
Mean age
49.5
Over 65
31 %
Under 15
10 %
A note on the data
No Speedtest samples within 3 km, so there is no measured internet speed for this village. That absence is itself a signal about how many people are online here.
Who it fits
The same village suits three people very differently, because they want different things from it. Where we are missing data that one of them cares about, we say so — a verdict built on less is worth less.
Good
Based on 87% of what matters to them
Chasing price per square metre. Tolerates isolation, but a village that is emptying fast is a house that will never resell.
We have not measured air quality and the weather in this village, so this verdict leaves them out.
Good
Based on 68% of what matters to them
Needs bandwidth and an airport more than it needs a pharmacy. Will trade services for cheap space and a fast train.
We have not measured air quality, the weather and internet speed in this village, so this verdict leaves them out.
Good
Based on 83% of what matters to them
Wants a doctor nearby, a hospital that exists, sun, a house that costs less than the flat back home, and other foreigners to talk to.
We have not measured air quality and the weather in this village, so this verdict leaves them out.
Nearby
Closest first, measured in a straight line. They may be over a regional border — a border is not a distance.
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Compare on one thing
AGCOM — ultra-broadband coverage by municipality
geo.agcom.it
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Agenzia Entrate - OMI
www.agenziaentrate.gov.it
2025-12-31
ISTAT — municipal accessibility to transport infrastructure (2023)
www.istat.it
2022-12-31
ISTAT — resident population by citizenship
demo.istat.it
2025-01-01
ISTAT POSAS (residents by age and sex, per municipality)
demo.istat.it
2026
Italian Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
it.wikipedia.org
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Model: cohort-component, no migration. ISTAT POSAS (residents by age and sex, per municipality) 2026 + Italian life table 2024 + ITF1 fertility 2024 (TFR 1.12)
ec.europa.eu
2026+20y
Ookla Open Data, fixed broadband tiles (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
github.com
2026Q1
OpenStreetMap (Overpass)
www.openstreetmap.org
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Wikidata (P1082/P2046/P2044, sourced from ISTAT)
www.wikidata.org
2017-01-01
Wikidata P18 / Wikimedia Commons
commons.wikimedia.org
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Field-by-field definitions and caveats live in the data dictionary.
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