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Barone Canavese: 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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Barone Canavese, a small hill village in the Canavese

Barone is one of the many small municipalities of the Canavese, the area north of Turin whose main town is Ivrea. The village sits just above three hundred metres among meadows, woods and fields, with a compact centre and houses scattered along the hill roads.

It is a residential place, suited to people looking for a house with a garden who accept that the car is needed for everything. Ivrea and the towns of the Canavese plain offer work, secondary schools, a hospital and railway stations; Turin is reached by car. Homes are mostly detached houses and small villas, with a few old rural buildings needing work. The climate is zone E.

There were 554 residents in 2023, 45 fewer than in 2011, a fall of 7.5%. The average age is 50.2, compared with 47.4 for the metropolitan area, and over-65s make up 32.3% against 26.4%. Households average 2.10 people. Declared incomes are below the provincial average.

For earthquakes, Barone is in zone 3, like 270 other municipalities in the Turin area, but the expected ground acceleration in the built-up area is low, about 0.043 g. For a house built a few decades ago, energy efficiency, the roof and the services matter more.

The Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate) cadastral maps cover the municipality, so the report goes from address to plot. Among hills and ditches, landslide and flood hazard changes from plot to plot and is read on the official maps for the individual house.

Key points

  • Small hill municipality in the Canavese, north of Turin.
  • 554 residents in 2023, down 7.5% since 2011.
  • Seismic zone 3 but low expected acceleration, about 0.043 g.
  • Revenue Agency cadastral maps available.

Overview

Barone Canavese is a municipality in the province of Torino, in Piemonte. At the end of 2023 it had 554 residents, ranked 247 of 312 municipalities in the province.

Earthquakes

For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Barone Canavese 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 0.043 g, a low 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 7.5%. The estimated average age is 50 years, higher than the province average (47). 32% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 27%). Foreign residents make up 5.2% of the population. On average, a household has 2.1 members.

Income and climate

In tax year 2024, taxpayers in Barone Canavese declared an average taxable income of 24,832 euros, below the provincial average (27,231 euros). The Italian average is 24,895 euros.

Barone Canavese is in climate zone E, with 2,841 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 325 metres above sea level.

Services

In the official Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health lists, Barone Canavese has 1 school.

The data shows no pharmacies within the municipality, against a provincial average of 0.3 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 7.3% of the land in Barone Canavese, 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

Barone Canavese 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 Barone Canavese.

Landslides and flooding

Landslide and flood hazard changes from one street to the next even within Barone Canavese: 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 Barone Canavese 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 6 inhabited census areas in Barone Canavese. Half of the residents live in areas scoring 61 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 001023. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.