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Cereseto: what to know before buying a home

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

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Cereseto, the castle village in the Monferrato near Casale

In the Monferrato hills near Casale, Cereseto is recognisable from a distance by the castle above the village, rebuilt in the twentieth century by the industrialist Riccardo Gualino. Around it are farmed ridges, woods and roads climbing and dipping between neighbouring villages. Casale Monferrato is the town people rely on for schools, the hospital and work.

The village has lost many residents in recent years: Istat, the national statistics office, counted 372 in 2023, against 457 in 2011, a fall of 18.6%. The estimated average age is 52.4, above the 48.9 of the province of Alessandria, and over-65s make up 33.3%. Foreign residents account for 5.6%.

The market is mostly village houses on several floors and hillside farmhouses, often with cellars and outbuildings. Buyers should ask to see that alterations made over the years were authorised, check the state of the roof and walls, and find out how rainwater drains away on sloping land. The report measures elevation and gradient at the address and reads the official landslide hazard maps.

The seismic zone is 4, the lowest on the Civil Protection Department's scale, as for 59 other municipalities in the province; the remaining 127 are in zone 3. Expected ground acceleration is about 0.039 g.

The Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate) publishes cadastral maps for Cereseto: from the address the report reaches the land parcel and the building.

Key points

  • Monferrato village crowned by its castle, near Casale.
  • 372 residents in 2023, down 18.6% since 2011.
  • Seismic zone 4, like 59 other places in the province.
  • Village houses and farmhouses: check gradient and drainage.

Overview

Cereseto is a municipality in the province of Alessandria, in Piemonte. At the end of 2023 it had 372 residents, ranked 142 of 187 municipalities in the province.

Earthquakes

For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Cereseto is in seismic zone 4, the lowest-risk zone, where strong earthquakes are very rare. Only 60 of 187 municipalities in the province are in zone 4.

In the built-up area, the expected ground shaking (peak ground acceleration, PGA) is about 0.039 g, a low value: the level with a 10% probability of being exceeded in 50 years, on rock.

In zone 4 the risk is low, but for an older building it is still worth asking about the state of the structure.

Population

Compared with the 2011 census, the resident population has fallen by 18.6%. The estimated average age is 52 years, higher than the province average (49). 33% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 27%). Foreign residents make up 5.6% of the population. On average, a household has 1.9 members.

Income and climate

In tax year 2024, taxpayers in Cereseto declared an average taxable income of 24,364 euros, in line with the province (25,143 euros). The Italian average is 24,895 euros.

Cereseto is in climate zone E, with 2,717 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 280 metres above sea level.

Services

The data shows no schools within the municipality, against a provincial average of 1.0 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 6.2% of the land in Cereseto, compared with 7.2% in the province and 6.7% in the region. In 2024 built-up land stayed almost the same.

Radon and contaminated sites

Cereseto is not among the radon priority areas designated by the Regione Piemonte in 2023. 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 no contaminated sites in Cereseto.

Landslides and flooding

Landslide and flood hazard changes from one street to the next even within Cereseto: 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 Cereseto 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 10 inhabited census areas in Cereseto. Half of the residents live in areas scoring 56 or more.

Residents by band

  • modest 17.4%
  • fair 82.6%

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 006057. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.