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Pordenone or Sacile: the town with the hospital, or the priciest small town of the Pordenone plain

The two town halls are 19 min apart by car, yet the sums differ: a flat in Sacile carries an OMI value of €1,225/m², one in Pordenone €1,045/m², and A&E sits 18 min down the road rather than 5 min. In return, less of Sacile floods and more of its homes have fibre.

Published 25 October 2026

A town and a small town

Pordenone (52,314 residents) is the main town of the western Friulian plain: it has one of the three hub hospitals for heart attacks and strokes, 8 OMI market zones and 827 homes sold in 2025. Sacile (19,951 residents) lies further west, towards the Veneto, and of the 20 municipalities in its area it has the highest property values.

PordenoneSacile
Standard homes (€/m²)€1,045/m²€1,225/m²
Detached houses (€/m²)€1,175/m²€1,125/m²
m² for €200,000190 m²165 m²
Prices over 5 years17.0%2.2%
Homes sold in 2025827276
Rent (standard homes)€5.2/m² a month€4.6/m² a month
Gross yield6.0%4.5%
24h emergency room5 min18 min
Level II emergency dept.1 h 2 min1 h 13 min
alluv_p3_territorio_pct35%12%
Buildings in flood areas13.9%6.7%
Fibre to the home87.8%93.4%
From Venice Airport51 min48 min
From Udine1 h 2 min1 h 12 min
ILIA on an undeclared home0.94%0.83%

Prices: flats cost more in Sacile, houses do not

OMI figures for January–June 2026, homes in average condition:

  • Historic centre: Pordenone €1,300/m² to €1,900/m², Sacile €1,400/m² to €2,000/m².
  • Districts and outlying villages: Pordenone €780/m² to €1,150/m² (Torre, Rorai Grande, Comina, Borgo Meduna); Sacile €1,000/m² to €1,400/m² (Cornadella, Ronche, San Giovanni del Tempio, San Liberale).
  • Detached and semi-detached houses: in Pordenone they are valued above flats, in Sacile below. €200,000 buys a house of 170 m² in Pordenone and 180 m² in Sacile.

The pace differs too. Over five years, across the OMI zones that can be compared, the value of a flat rose by 17.0% in Pordenone and by 2.2% in Sacile. In 2025 sales grew by 10.6% on 2024 in Sacile and barely moved in Pordenone (1.0%); the homes that changed hands were 2.9% of the housing stock in Pordenone and 2.6% in Sacile. How to read these figures: house prices in Friuli.

If you let the property

The OMI rent for a flat is €5.2/m² a month in Pordenone and €4.6/m² a month in Sacile. Set against the price, that is a gross yield of 6.0% in Pordenone, where only 8 municipalities in the region do better, and 4.5% in Sacile. These are paper figures: tax, service charges, upkeep and empty months bring them down.

Healthcare: the sharpest difference

Pordenone's Santa Maria degli Angeli hospital has a round-the-clock A&E, a cardiac catheterisation lab and a stroke unit, 5 min from the town hall. Sacile has lost its first-aid point, and the Region's live A&E waiting-times page no longer lists it. On Via Ettoreo the Casa della Comunità keeps a primary-care clinic open to walk-ins between 8:00 and 20:00, for problems that are not urgent; for anything urgent ASFO, the local health authority, sends people to 112 or to an A&E. From Sacile, then, the nearest hospital is Pordenone's, 18 min away. Major trauma and heart surgery mean Udine: 1 h 2 min from Pordenone, 1 h 13 min from Sacile (hospitals and A&E).

Roads, trains, airports

  • Venice: Marco Polo airport is 48 min from Sacile and 51 min from Pordenone.
  • Udine: 1 h 2 min from Pordenone, 1 h 12 min from Sacile; both have direct trains to Udine, and Sacile has 2 stations within its boundaries.
  • A28 motorway: junction 4 min from Pordenone town hall, 9 min from Sacile (Sacile Ovest).
  • Leisure: the Piancavallo ski slopes are 43 min from Sacile and 48 min from Pordenone; the beach at Bibione 50 min and 1 h 1 min.

Driving times with clear roads, from the town hall. The rest of the region's links: trains and airports.

Water, fibre and the rest

  • Floods: according to ISPRA, 13.9% of buildings in Pordenone stand in medium flood-hazard areas, 6.7% in Sacile. Within one municipality the street and the ground-floor level make the difference (floods and landslides).
  • Fibre (FTTH): reaches 93.4% of Sacile's households and 87.8% of Pordenone's.
  • Earthquakes: both are in seismic zone 2. INGV's data put Sacile's strongest felt shaking in 1936, with the epicentre between Alpago and Cansiglio: MCS intensity 7-8 (what the zones mean).
  • Who lives there: average age 47.8 in Pordenone and 47.0 in Sacile; households owning their home 69% and 76% (2011 census); foreign residents 15.1% and 10.6%.
  • Summer: days above 30 °C number 43 a year in Pordenone and 42 in Sacile, on ARPA's climate grid.
  • Second home: ILIA, the regional property tax, is 0.70% in both if the house is the first «second home» registered with the Region; otherwise 0.94% in Pordenone and 0.83% in Sacile (ILIA explained).

Who should pick which

  • Pordenone for buyers who want the hospital a few minutes away, the widest choice of homes and schools and a rent that pays more; check the flood risk of the street carefully.
  • Sacile for those who prefer a smaller town, with less land exposed to flooding and fibre almost everywhere, and who accept a higher price per square metre for a flat; in an emergency, allow 18 min on the road.

The full profiles: Pordenone, Sacile, and the Pordenone plain for the towns around them.

Questions

Is a house more expensive in Sacile or in Pordenone?

It depends on the type. OMI values a flat at €1,225/m² in Sacile and €1,045/m² in Pordenone; a detached house at €1,125/m² in Sacile and €1,175/m² in Pordenone.

Is there an emergency department in Sacile?

Not any more: the first-aid point was shut, and the closest round-the-clock A&E is in Pordenone, 18 min away by car. For emergencies dial 112; the Casa della Comunità on Via Ettoreo takes non-urgent cases from 8:00 to 20:00.

How far is Sacile from Pordenone?

By car, with clear roads, 19 min from town hall to town hall.

Sources and method

Written by Claude, TriesteVillas' AI assistant, from the data below; checked twice against the sources before publication.

The figures on this page come from:

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