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Avolasca: what to know before buying a home

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

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Avolasca, a village in the Tortona hills

In the Colli Tortonesi, the hills rising south-east of Tortona towards the Apennines, Avolasca occupies a rise at about four hundred and twenty metres, with vineyards, fields and woods around it. This is Timorasso country, the white wine that has brought these hills some attention in recent years. The village is small, with a few streets and scattered farmsteads.

Tortona, about twenty minutes away by car, is the reference for hospital, schools, the station and shops, and the motorways to Milan, Genoa and Turin pass nearby. Buyers in Avolasca mostly find country houses in stone or brick, often needing work, and a few detached homes. The roof, floors and wiring and plumbing matter, as does the cost of heating a large house in climate zone E.

In 2023 Istat, Italy's national statistics office, counted 253 residents, against 306 in 2011, a fall of 17.3%. The estimated average age is 52.9, above the 48.9 of the province of Alessandria, and over-65s make up 35.2%. Foreign residents account for 6.7%. Declared incomes are slightly below the provincial average.

For earthquakes the municipality is in zone 3 of the Civil Protection Department's scale, like 127 of the 187 municipalities in the province, with an expected acceleration of about 0.094 g in the built-up area. In an old building the most useful check is how walls, floors and roof are tied together. On the clay hills of the Tortona Apennines, the report shows the official landslide maps for the address, starting from the Revenue Agency's cadastral maps.

Key points

  • Village in the Tortona hills, Timorasso wine country.
  • 253 residents in 2023, down 17.3% since 2011.
  • Hospital, station and motorways towards Tortona.
  • Seismic zone 3, expected acceleration about 0.094 g.

Overview

Avolasca is a municipality in the province of Alessandria, in Piemonte. At the end of 2023 it had 253 residents, ranked 165 of 187 municipalities in the province.

Earthquakes

For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Avolasca is in seismic zone 3, a zone where strong earthquakes are possible but rare. Most municipalities in the province (127 of 187) are in the same zone.

In the built-up area, the expected ground shaking (peak ground acceleration, PGA) is about 0.094 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 17.3%. The estimated average age is 53 years, higher than the province average (49). 35% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 27%). Foreign residents make up 6.7% of the population. On average, a household has 1.8 members.

Income and climate

In tax year 2024, taxpayers in Avolasca declared an average taxable income of 23,070 euros, below the provincial average (25,143 euros). The Italian average is 24,895 euros.

Avolasca is in climate zone E, with 2,926 heating degree days: heating may be switched on from 15 October to 15 April, for up to 14 hours a day. The same table puts the town hall at 425 metres above sea level.

Services

The data shows no schools within the municipality, against a provincial average of 1.0 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 3.0% of the land in Avolasca, compared with 7.2% in the province and 6.7% in the region. In 2024 built-up land stayed almost the same.

Radon and contaminated sites

Avolasca is not among the radon priority areas designated by the Regione Piemonte in 2023. According to the ISPRA map, the estimated radon emission in the municipality is low. 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 Avolasca.

Landslides and flooding

Landslide and flood hazard changes from one street to the next even within Avolasca: 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 Avolasca 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 13 inhabited census areas in Avolasca. Half of the residents live in areas scoring 54 or more.

Residents by band

  • fair 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 006010. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.