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Alpette: what to know before buying a home

A municipality in the province of Torino, Piemonte. Official data on earthquakes, population, services and transport.

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The report looks at the exact point: landslide and flood risk, seismic zone, price per square metre for the area, services and nearby stops.

For example: Via Sereine 1, Alpette.

Alpette, a mountain balcony over the upper Canavese

Alpette stands at almost a thousand metres in the mountains of the upper Canavese, the Alpine belt north of Turin, on an open slope of meadows, woods and small hamlets. It is a place of clean air and proper winters, in climate zone F: year-round residents drive down the valley for work, school and shopping, and second-home owners come mostly in summer.

The market is made up of stone houses in the hamlets, mountain cottages and homes built as holiday houses in past decades. With the latter, look closely at insulation, windows and the boiler, which make the difference to the cost of a long winter. The road matters too: try the route in snow before buying and check whether the hamlet is cleared quickly.

There were 246 residents in 2023, 31 fewer than in 2011, a fall of 11.2% according to Istat, the national statistics office. The estimated average age is 52.5, against 47.4 in the Turin metropolitan area, and over-65s make up 35.0%. Foreign residents account for 3.3%. Average declared incomes are below the provincial average.

Alpette is in seismic zone 3 on the Civil Protection scale, like 271 of the 312 municipalities in the province, and the expected ground acceleration in the village is low, about 0.054 g. On mountain slopes, though, landslides and avalanches deserve a look: the report checks the official maps for the address and measures the gradient. Cadastral maps come from the Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate).

Key points

  • Mountain village in the upper Canavese, at almost a thousand metres.
  • 246 residents, down 11.2% since 2011.
  • Over-65s at 35.0%; average age 52.5.
  • Seismic zone 3 with low acceleration, about 0.054 g.

Overview

Alpette is a municipality in the province of Torino, in Piemonte. At the end of 2023 it had 246 residents, among the smallest in the province (291 of 312).

Earthquakes

For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Alpette is in seismic zone 3, a zone where strong earthquakes are possible but rare. Most municipalities in the province (271 of 312) are in the same zone.

In the built-up area, the expected ground shaking (peak ground acceleration, PGA) is about 0.054 g, a moderate value: the level with a 10% probability of being exceeded in 50 years, on rock.

Even in zone 3, seismic standards apply to new buildings: for an older building, ask about the design year and any structural work.

Population

Compared with the 2011 census, the resident population has fallen by 11.2%. The estimated average age is 52 years, higher than the province average (47). 35% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 27%). Foreign residents make up 3.3% of the population. On average, a household has 1.6 members.

Income and climate

In tax year 2024, taxpayers in Alpette declared an average taxable income of 23,461 euros, below the provincial average (27,231 euros). The Italian average is 24,895 euros.

Alpette is in climate zone F, with 3,789 heating degree days, with no limits on when heating may be used. The same table puts the town hall at 957 metres above sea level.

Services

The data shows no schools within the municipality, against a provincial average of 0.8 per 1,000 residents.

Public transport

We do not yet have open public transport timetables for this municipality: the report says so explicitly, without inventing distances.

How built-up it is

Buildings, roads, car parks and other sealed surfaces cover 4.1% of the land in Alpette, compared with 8.6% in the province and 6.7% in the region. In 2024 built-up land stayed almost the same.

Radon and contaminated sites

Alpette is not among the radon priority areas designated by the Regione Piemonte in 2023. Radon varies from building to building and can only be known by measuring it, especially on ground floors and in basements.

Official databases list no contaminated sites in Alpette.

Landslides and flooding

Landslide and flood hazard changes from one street to the next even within Alpette: the report checks the address against the ISPRA maps.

House prices

The Revenue Agency's price ranges per square metre (OMI) apply to zones, not to whole municipalities: the report gives the range for the address's zone.

Land registry

The cadastral maps for Alpette are public: from the address the report finds the sheet and parcel number.

Liveability area by area

The Vicinalia liveability index runs from 0 to 100 and looks at the place, not the people who live there: services within walking distance, transport, green space, natural hazards, air, quiet, buildings and connection. Here it is worked out at the centre of each of the 7 inhabited census areas in Alpette. Half of the residents live in areas scoring 70 or more.

Residents by band

  • good 100.0%

Vicinalia index by census area, licence CC BY-SA 4.0. Data: IdroGEO ISPRA (2026), Istat, INGV, EEA, AGCOM, Overture Maps and OpenStreetMap.

The colour is the value at the centre of the area. For an exact address, search for it above: the free check looks at that exact point. How the index is worked out

Data sources

ISTAT code 001007. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.