Capriate San Gervasio: what to know before buying a home
A municipality in the province of Bergamo, Lombardia. Official data on earthquakes, population, services and transport.
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Capriate San Gervasio, Crespi d'Adda and the A4 junction
Within the boundaries of Capriate San Gervasio lies Crespi d'Adda, the company village built around the Crespi family's cotton mill and listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. The factory, the identical workers' houses with their vegetable plots, the managers' villas, the church and the cemetery have all survived as they were. The rest of the municipality sits on the Bergamo bank of the Adda, opposite Trezzo, split between Capriate itself and the village of San Gervasio.
Few towns in the area have such good road links. The Capriate junction on the A4 motorway gets you quickly to Milan or Bergamo, but there is no railway, so commuting means driving. The town is also home to Leolandia, an amusement park, which brings traffic to nearby streets on fine weekends.
Anyone looking at a house in Crespi should know that they are buying inside a protected site. Facades, windows, fences and extensions follow strict rules, and every change needs approval. Elsewhere in the town there are detached houses, small blocks of flats and older homes in the centre of Capriate.
There were 8,243 residents in 2023, up 6.0% on 2011. The estimated average age, 45.5, is in line with the province; over-65s make up 22.9% and foreign residents 13.8%, similar to many towns in this part of the Bergamo area.
Earthquakes are not the main concern: the whole province of Bergamo is in seismic zone 3 of the national classification, and the expected ground acceleration in the built-up area is about 0.093 g. The river is another matter. The Adda runs in a deep valley, so houses on the upper terrace are safe from it, while those on the low banks can be reached by floods. The report checks the exact address and uses the Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate) maps to find the plot.
Key points
- Includes Crespi d'Adda, a company village on the UNESCO World Heritage list.
- A4 motorway junction, but no railway station.
- 8,243 residents, 6.0% more than in 2011.
- Seismic zone 3; on the Adda's low banks, floods matter.
Overview
Capriate San Gervasio is a municipality in the province of Bergamo, in Lombardia. At the end of 2023 it had 8,243 residents, ranked 30 of 243 municipalities in the province.
Earthquakes
For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Capriate San Gervasio is in seismic zone 3, a zone where strong earthquakes are possible but rare. All 243 municipalities in the province are in the same zone.
In the built-up area, the expected ground shaking (peak ground acceleration, PGA) is about 0.093 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 6.0%. The estimated average age is 46 years, in line with the province. 23% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 24%). Foreign residents make up 13.8% of the population. On average, a household has 2.3 members.
Income and climate
In tax year 2024, taxpayers in Capriate San Gervasio declared an average taxable income of 26,659 euros, in line with the province (26,939 euros). The Italian average is 24,895 euros.
Capriate San Gervasio is in climate zone E, with 2,428 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 190 metres above sea level.
Services
In the official Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health lists, Capriate San Gervasio has 8 schools and 3 pharmacies. The Overture Maps data also lists 2 grocery shops and supermarkets, 5 healthcare facilities, 6 sports facilities and 2 parks and green areas.
There are 0.2 grocery shops and supermarkets per 1,000 residents, fewer than the province average (0.5).
Public transport
The open timetables available for the area do not list any stops within the territory of Capriate San Gervasio.
How built-up it is
Buildings, roads, car parks and other sealed surfaces cover 37.9% of the land in Capriate San Gervasio, compared with 12.0% in the province and 12.2% in the region. In 2024 built-up land stayed almost the same.
Radon and contaminated sites
Capriate San Gervasio is not among the radon priority areas designated by the Regione Lombardia 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 open contaminated sites in Capriate San Gervasio; one has been cleaned up or closed.
Landslides and flooding
Landslide and flood hazard changes from one street to the next even within Capriate San Gervasio: 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 Capriate San Gervasio 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 35 inhabited census areas in Capriate San Gervasio. Half of the residents live in areas scoring 70 or more.
Residents by band
- fair 30.1%
- good 69.9%
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
- Seismic classification of municipalities, Dipartimento della Protezione Civile. Licence CC BY 4.0, updated to 2025-05.
- MPS04 seismic hazard model, INGV. Licence CC BY 4.0, 2004 model.
- Data by census section, Istat. Licence CC BY 4.0, residents at the end of 2023, compared with the 2011 census.
- Places, Overture Maps Foundation. Licence CDLA Permissive 2.0 and others depending on provider, release 2026-10-21.0.
- Public transport timetables (GTFS): Trenord, Regione Lombardia - Trenord, orari ferroviari (GTFS). Licence CC BY 4.0, version 20261111.
- Income and main IRPEF variables by municipality, MEF, Dipartimento delle Finanze. Licence CC BY 3.0 IT, tax year 2024.
- Climate zones and heating degree days of municipalities (Presidential Decree 412/1993, Annex A), Normattiva. Licence CC BY 4.0, current text.
- Land take, territorial dynamics and ecosystem services, ISPRA e SNPA. Licence CC BY 4.0, 2024 data.
- Predictive radon map by municipality, ISPRA. Licence CC BY 4.0, version 2022-11.
- Radon priority areas (Legislative Decree 101/2020), Regione Lombardia, national list compiled by ARPA Lombardia. Licence Atto pubblico (art. 5 L. 633/1941), 2023.
- Contaminated sites, Regione Lombardia. Licence CC0 1.0 (pubblico dominio), updated to 15 November 2026.
- Liveability index by census area, Vicinalia, from the data in the report sections. Licence CC BY-SA 4.0, worked out on 30 September 2026.
- List of Italian municipalities, Istat. Licence CC BY 4.0, updated to 21 February 2026.
ISTAT code 016051. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.