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Capannori: what to know before buying a home

A municipality in the province of Lucca, Toscana. 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 di Tiglio 1, Capannori.

Capannori, the Lucca plain of villas, paper mills and hills

Capannori wraps around Lucca to the east and is made up of many villages spread across the plain and hills rather than a real centre. The main village holds the town hall and some services, but daily life happens in places like Marlia, Lammari, Segromigno, Camigliano, Lunata and many more. Capannori was the first Italian municipality to sign up to the Zero Waste strategy.

To the north, on the hills, stand the great Lucca villas with their parks, such as the Villa Reale at Marlia, and hill villages like Segromigno in Monte. To the south the plain opens out, with scattered houses, farm courtyards and the paper mills that form part of Lucca's paper district. To the south-east the Compitese hills are known for camellias. The A11 motorway has an exit at Capannori, and the Lucca to Florence railway crosses the plain.

The population is growing: 46,402 residents in 2023 according to Istat, the national statistics office, up 3.3% on 2011. The average age is 46.8, a little below the province (48.1), and foreign residents make up 8.7%. With homes so spread out, services are thinner on the ground: there are 0.37 supermarkets per 1,000 residents against 0.53 in the province, and shopping, school runs and doctor's visits nearly always mean a car.

Capannori is in seismic zone 3 on the Civil Protection Department's scale, like 10 other municipalities in the province, while 22 in the province of Lucca are in zone 2. The expected acceleration is about 0.130 g. For a farmhouse or a stone courtyard house, often extended more than once, have the walls, floors and roof checked.

The lowest part of the plain, towards the old Lake Bientina, drained long ago, is crossed by channels and ditches. Here flood hazard changes from one farm to the next, and the report reads it for the address, along with landslide hazard in the hills. The Revenue Agency publishes the land registry maps.

Key points

  • Scattered villages among Lucca villas, paper mills and camellia hills.
  • 46,402 residents, up 3.3% since 2011.
  • Seismic zone 3, expected acceleration about 0.130 g.
  • A11 exit and Lucca-Florence railway; services usually need a car.

Overview

Capannori is a municipality in the province of Lucca, in Toscana. At the end of 2023 it had 46,402 residents, the third most populous in the province.

Earthquakes

For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Capannori is in seismic zone 3, a zone where strong earthquakes are possible but rare. Only 11 of 33 municipalities in the province are in zone 3.

In the built-up area, the expected ground shaking (peak ground acceleration, PGA) is about 0.130 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 grown by 3.3%. The estimated average age is 47 years, in line with the province. 25% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 26%). Foreign residents make up 8.7% of the population. On average, a household has 2.4 members.

Income and climate

In tax year 2024, taxpayers in Capannori declared an average taxable income of 24,771 euros, in line with the province (24,903 euros). The Italian average is 24,895 euros.

Capannori is in climate zone D, with 1,691 heating degree days: heating may be switched on from 1 November to 15 April, for up to 12 hours a day. The same table puts the town hall at 15 metres above sea level.

Services

In the official Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health lists, Capannori has 32 schools and 14 pharmacies. The Overture Maps data also lists 17 grocery shops and supermarkets, 26 healthcare facilities, 29 sports facilities and 11 parks and green areas.

There are 0.4 grocery shops and supermarkets per 1,000 residents, fewer than the province average (0.5).

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 13.4% of the land in Capannori, compared with 9.2% in the province and 6.2% in the region. In 2024 built-up land grew by 2.1 hectares.

Radon and contaminated sites

Capannori is not among the radon priority areas designated by the Regione Toscana in 2025. According to the ISPRA map, the estimated radon emission in the municipality is medium. Radon varies from building to building and can only be known by measuring it, especially on ground floors and in basements.

Official databases list one contaminated site, or site still under investigation, in Capannori, and 16 more have been cleaned up or closed. The report tells you whether one is close to the address.

Landslides and flooding

Landslide and flood hazard changes from one street to the next even within Capannori: 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 Capannori 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 260 inhabited census areas in Capannori. Half of the residents live in areas scoring 55 or more.

Residents by band

  • poor 0.0%
  • modest 18.5%
  • fair 76.5%
  • good 4.9%

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 046007. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.