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Casabona: what to know before buying a home

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

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Casabona, a hill village in inland Crotone

Inland in the province of Crotone, away from the Ionian coast and its seaside resorts, Casabona sits on a hill surrounded by wheat fields, olive groves and pasture. It is a farming village with a compact centre and streets that rise and fall with the ground.

The most striking figure is depopulation. According to Istat, Italy's statistics office, there are 2,263 residents in 2023, down 20.8% on 2011, and the average age of 48.5 is well above the 44.3 of the province. Foreign residents are 5.0%. Many families have relatives who emigrated to northern Italy or abroad, and some houses belong to people who come back in summer.

For a buyer this means a small market, with family houses that often need work and few recent builds. Before deciding, check the roof, walls and systems, and work out how you will reach services: for hospital, secondary schools and offices people go down towards Crotone or the larger towns. Declared incomes are below the provincial average.

Casabona is in seismic zone 2 on the Civil Protection scale, like 26 other municipalities in the province, with an expected acceleration of 0.194 g. Calabria has a long history of earthquakes, so an old masonry house is worth having checked by an engineer. The report for the address adds the official landslide and flood maps.

Key points

  • Hill farming village in inland Crotone.
  • 2,263 residents, down 20.8% since 2011.
  • Average age 48.5, against 44.3 in the province.
  • Seismic zone 2, expected acceleration 0.194 g.

Overview

Casabona is a municipality in the province of Crotone, in Calabria. At the end of 2023 it had 2,263 residents, ranked 15 of 27 municipalities in the province.

Earthquakes

For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Casabona is in seismic zone 2, a zone where strong earthquakes are possible. All 27 municipalities in the province are in the same zone.

In the built-up area, the expected ground shaking (peak ground acceleration, PGA) is about 0.194 g, a medium-high value: the level with a 10% probability of being exceeded in 50 years, on rock.

For anyone buying in Casabona, 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 20.8%. The estimated average age is 49 years, higher than the province average (44). 29% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 24%). Foreign residents make up 5.0% of the population. On average, a household has 2.1 members.

Income and climate

In tax year 2024, taxpayers in Casabona declared an average taxable income of 16,014 euros, below the provincial average (17,765 euros). The Italian average is 24,895 euros.

Casabona is in climate zone C, with 1,362 heating degree days: heating may be switched on from 15 November to 31 March, for up to 10 hours a day. The same table puts the town hall at 287 metres above sea level.

Services

In the official Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health lists, Casabona has 3 schools and 2 pharmacies. The Overture Maps data also lists 4 grocery shops and supermarkets, 1 healthcare facility and 1 green area.

There are 1.8 grocery shops and supermarkets per 1,000 residents, more than the province average (0.7).

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 1.8% of the land in Casabona, compared with 3.8% in the province and 5.1% 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 2 contaminated sites, or sites still under investigation, in Casabona. 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 Casabona: 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 Casabona 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 Casabona. Half of the residents live in areas scoring 76 or more.

Residents by band

  • fair 12.7%
  • good 87.3%

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 101004. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.