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Chialamberto: what to know before buying a home

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

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The report looks at the exact point: landslide and flood risk, seismic zone, price per square metre for the area, services and nearby stops.

For example: Via Breno 1, Chialamberto.

Chialamberto, in the Val Grande di Lanzo along the Stura

Of the three Lanzo valleys north-west of Turin, the Val Grande is the northernmost, and Chialamberto covers a central stretch of it along the Stura river, at over eight hundred metres. The municipality is made up of many hamlets, some on the valley floor along the road, others higher on the slopes and reached by narrow lanes. Further down the valley are Cantoira and Ceres, then Lanzo and the Turin plain.

Alongside the homes of year-round residents there are many second homes, used in summer and at weekends. Traditional buildings have stone walls and roofs of heavy stone slabs (lose), which are costly to redo, so the state of the roof is the first thing to check. Climate zone F means long winters, with snow and few hours of sun in hamlets facing north. For a daily commute to Turin, the journey is long.

Istat, Italy's national statistics office, counted 335 residents in 2023, against 364 in 2011, a fall of 8.0%. The estimated average age is 54.0, above the 47.4 of the province of Turin, and 37.9% of residents are over 65. Households are small, 1.62 people on average; foreign residents make up 2.7%. Declared incomes are below the provincial average.

Chialamberto is in seismic zone 3 on the Civil Protection scale, like 271 of the 312 municipalities in the province, with an expected acceleration in the village of about 0.091 g. In stone houses, ask how the roof and floors were anchored during the most recent work.

Near the Stura and its side streams the report checks the official flood maps, and on the slopes the landslide maps, always for the exact address. The Revenue Agency's cadastral maps are published.

Key points

  • Val Grande di Lanzo, hamlets along the Stura and on the slopes.
  • Stone slab roofs: check the roof first.
  • 335 residents in 2023, average age 54.0.
  • Seismic zone 3, expected acceleration about 0.091 g.

Overview

Chialamberto is a municipality in the province of Torino, in Piemonte. At the end of 2023 it had 335 residents, ranked 278 of 312 municipalities in the province.

Earthquakes

For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Chialamberto is in seismic zone 3, a zone where strong earthquakes are possible but rare. The region uses a finer breakdown: here the classification is 3S. Most municipalities in the province (271 of 312) are in the same zone.

In the built-up area, the expected ground shaking (peak ground acceleration, PGA) is about 0.091 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 fallen by 8.0%. The estimated average age is 54 years, higher than the province average (47). 38% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 27%). Foreign residents make up 2.7% of the population. On average, a household has 1.6 members.

Income and climate

In tax year 2024, taxpayers in Chialamberto declared an average taxable income of 19,710 euros, below the provincial average (27,231 euros). The Italian average is 24,895 euros.

Chialamberto is in climate zone F, with 3,630 heating degree days, with no limits on when heating may be used. The same table puts the town hall at 851 metres above sea level.

Services

The data shows no schools within the municipality, against a provincial average of 0.8 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 1.5% of the land in Chialamberto, compared with 8.6% in the province and 6.7% in the region. In 2024 built-up land stayed almost the same.

Radon and contaminated sites

Chialamberto 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 medium. 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 Chialamberto. 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 Chialamberto: 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 Chialamberto 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 15 inhabited census areas in Chialamberto. Half of the residents live in areas scoring 60 or more.

Residents by band

  • fair 82.6%
  • good 17.4%

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

ISTAT code 001075. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.