Castenedolo: what to know before buying a home
A municipality in the province of Brescia, Lombardia. Official data on earthquakes, population, services and transport.
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Castenedolo, the hill town south-east of Brescia
Castenedolo borders Brescia and shares its plain, but it has one distinctive feature: a low, elongated hill, green and dotted with villas, that rises above the houses and shapes the landscape. The old village lies at its foot, and around it residential districts and small industrial areas spread out as far as the fields separating Castenedolo from its neighbours.
Many residents commute into the city every day. There is no railway station, so people get around mostly by car, and the drive to the edge of Brescia is short. The housing mixes detached and terraced houses built in recent decades, mid-rise blocks of flats and, on the hill, larger homes set among trees. On the hill, allow for narrow roads and steep gradients; on the plain, what matters is distance from busy roads and industrial zones.
Istat, the national statistics office, counted 11,709 residents in 2023, up 4.9% on 2011. The town is slightly younger than the province, with an estimated average age of 44.5 against 45.4 and over-65s at 20.7%. Foreign residents make up 10.1%. Declared incomes match the average for the province of Brescia. Supermarkets are plentiful, at 1.02 per 1,000 residents against 0.51 in the province.
On earthquakes the province is split: 153 municipalities are in seismic zone 3 and 52 in zone 2, on the scale set by the Civil Protection Department. Castenedolo is in zone 2, the highest class in the province, with expected ground acceleration in the built-up area of about 0.153 g. For a house built before recent seismic standards, ask for the structural design and whether strengthening work has been carried out.
The Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate) publishes the cadastral maps, and the report finds the plot from the address. On the hill, slope and landslide hazard are the things to look at; on the plain, it is the ditches and irrigation channels and the flooding they can bring. The report measures all of this for the individual address.
Key points
- Town at the foot of a hill, bordering Brescia.
- Population up 4.9% since 2011.
- Seismic zone 2, the highest in the province of Brescia.
- 1.02 supermarkets per 1,000 residents.
Overview
Castenedolo is a municipality in the province of Brescia, in Lombardia. At the end of 2023 it had 11,709 residents, ranked 26 of 205 municipalities in the province.
Earthquakes
For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Castenedolo is in seismic zone 2, a zone where strong earthquakes are possible. Only 52 of 205 municipalities in the province are in zone 2.
In the built-up area, the expected ground shaking (peak ground acceleration, PGA) is about 0.153 g, a medium-high value: the level with a 10% probability of being exceeded in 50 years, on rock.
For anyone buying in Castenedolo, 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 grown by 4.9%. The estimated average age is 44 years, in line with the province. 21% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 24%). Foreign residents make up 10.1% of the population. On average, a household has 2.4 members.
Income and climate
In tax year 2024, taxpayers in Castenedolo declared an average taxable income of 26,133 euros, in line with the province (26,155 euros). The Italian average is 24,895 euros.
Castenedolo is in climate zone E, with 2,399 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 152 metres above sea level.
Services
In the official Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health lists, Castenedolo has 7 schools and 3 pharmacies. The Overture Maps data also lists 12 grocery shops and supermarkets, 7 healthcare facilities, 7 sports facilities and 2 parks and green areas.
There are 1.0 grocery shops and supermarkets per 1,000 residents, more than the province average (0.5).
Public transport
The open timetables available for the area do not list any stops within the territory of Castenedolo.
How built-up it is
Buildings, roads, car parks and other sealed surfaces cover 23.6% of the land in Castenedolo, compared with 10.5% in the province and 12.2% in the region. In 2024 built-up land grew by 1.7 hectares.
Radon and contaminated sites
Castenedolo 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 2 contaminated sites, or sites still under investigation, in Castenedolo, and one more has 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 Castenedolo: 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 Castenedolo 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 64 inhabited census areas in Castenedolo. Half of the residents live in areas scoring 59 or more.
Residents by band
- modest 8.8%
- fair 75.8%
- good 15.4%
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 017043. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.