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Carife: what to know before buying a home

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

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For example: Via Roma 1, Carife.

Carife, in the hills of the Irpinia Baronia

Carife is one of the villages of the Baronia, the hilly area of eastern Irpinia (the province of Avellino) around the Ufita valley. The centre stands above seven hundred metres, with cool winters (climate zone E) and a landscape of wheat fields and scattered farmhouses. For Naples and Puglia, the A16 motorway runs through the area.

It is a small village and shrinking. In 2023 it had 1,264 residents, down 15.6% since 2011, or 234 fewer people, according to Istat, the national statistics office. The average age is 49.6, against 46.2 in the province, and almost one resident in three is over 65 (29.9%, against 23.9% provincially). Households are small, 1.98 people on average, and declared incomes are below the provincial average.

Buyers usually choose between village houses, often in need of updating, and scattered country houses. As across Irpinia, many homes were repaired or rebuilt after the 1980 earthquake, so ask for the reconstruction files and check that the work matches the approved plans.

The seismic figure matters. Carife is in seismic zone 1, the highest in the Civil Protection classification, like 57 other municipalities in the province, and the expected ground acceleration in the built-up area is 0.267 g. The Overture data list 3 schools and one pharmacy.

The Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate) publishes cadastral maps for the municipality. From the address the report identifies the plot and checks the official landslide hazard maps, which on hillsides should be looked at building by building.

Key points

  • Hill village in the Baronia, eastern Irpinia.
  • 1,264 residents, down 15.6% since 2011.
  • Over-65s at 29.9%, average age 49.6.
  • Seismic zone 1, expected acceleration 0.267 g.

Overview

Carife is a municipality in the province of Avellino, in Campania. At the end of 2023 it had 1,264 residents, ranked 87 of 118 municipalities in the province.

Earthquakes

For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Carife is in seismic zone 1, the highest-risk zone, where very strong earthquakes are possible. Only 58 of 118 municipalities in the province are in zone 1.

In the built-up area, the expected ground shaking (peak ground acceleration, PGA) is about 0.267 g, a high value: the level with a 10% probability of being exceeded in 50 years, on rock.

For anyone buying in Carife, the building matters a great deal: ask for the design year, whether it met the 2008 seismic standards, and whether any seismic retrofit has been carried out.

Population

Compared with the 2011 census, the resident population has fallen by 15.6%. The estimated average age is 50 years, higher than the province average (46). 30% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 21%). Foreign residents make up 3.2% of the population. On average, a household has 2.0 members.

Income and climate

In tax year 2024, taxpayers in Carife declared an average taxable income of 17,221 euros, below the provincial average (19,951 euros). The Italian average is 24,895 euros.

Carife is in climate zone E, with 2,324 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 740 metres above sea level.

Services

In the official Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health lists, Carife has 3 schools and 1 pharmacy.

The data shows no grocery shops and supermarkets within the municipality, against a provincial average of 0.7 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 5.8% of the land in Carife, compared with 7.4% in the province and 10.6% in the region. In 2024 built-up land stayed almost the same.

Radon and contaminated sites

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 one contaminated site, or site still under investigation, in Carife. 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 Carife: 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 Carife 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 16 inhabited census areas in Carife. Half of the residents live in areas scoring 60 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 064019. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.