Cisterna di Latina: what to know before buying a home
A municipality in the province of Latina, Lazio. Official data on earthquakes, population, services and transport.
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For example: Corso Repubblica 1, Cisterna di Latina.
Cisterna di Latina, the Via Appia and the reclaimed plain
Coming from Rome along the ancient Via Appia, Cisterna is the first sizeable town of the Agro Pontino, the plain drained and settled in the twentieth century. The old town, with Palazzo Caetani, was almost flattened in the fighting of 1944 after the Anzio landings and rebuilt after the war, so the centre has few historic buildings and many post-war houses. Around it lies the reclaimed farmland, with fields, greenhouses and farms.
For anyone working in Rome or Latina the key asset is the station on the Rome to Naples line via Formia, which links the town with both. The market offers detached houses and small villas in the countryside as well as flats in town, and running costs differ a lot: outside the centre you need a car, drainage and utility connections to check, and access roads to maintain.
Istat, the national statistics office, counted 36,213 residents in 2023, 1.9% more than in 2011. Cisterna is number 6 in the province by population and holds 6.4% of its residents. It is fairly young, with a mean age of 44.5, and foreign residents make up 11.2%. Households are large by Italian standards, 2.66 people on average, and declared incomes are slightly below the provincial average.
The town is in seismic zone 3 of the Civil Protection classification, like 29 other municipalities in the province of Latina, with an expected ground acceleration of about 0.121 g, a middling value. For houses built in a hurry after the war, or extended over the years, ask for the original design and check that added floors and enclosed verandas are properly authorised.
On the reclaimed plain the water is managed by canals and pumping stations, and after heavy rain some land can flood: the report reads the hazard maps at the exact address. The Revenue Agency's cadastral maps cover the whole municipality.
Key points
- Station on the Rome to Naples line via Formia, on the Via Appia.
- 36,213 residents, up 1.9% since 2011.
- Households of 2.66 people, foreign residents at 11.2%.
- Seismic zone 3, expected acceleration about 0.121 g.
Overview
Cisterna di Latina is a municipality in the province of Latina, in Lazio. At the end of 2023 it had 36,213 residents, ranked 6 of 33 municipalities in the province.
Earthquakes
For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Cisterna di Latina is in seismic zone 3, a zone where strong earthquakes are possible but rare. The region uses a finer breakdown: here the classification is 3A. Most municipalities in the province (30 of 33) are in the same zone.
In the built-up area, the expected ground shaking (peak ground acceleration, PGA) is about 0.121 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 grown by 1.9%. The estimated average age is 45 years, in line with the province. 21% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 23%). Foreign residents make up 11.2% of the population. On average, a household has 2.7 members.
Income and climate
In tax year 2024, taxpayers in Cisterna di Latina declared an average taxable income of 20,209 euros, below the provincial average (21,502 euros). The Italian average is 24,895 euros.
Cisterna di Latina is in climate zone C, with 1,216 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 77 metres above sea level.
Services
In the official Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health lists, Cisterna di Latina has 28 schools and 10 pharmacies. The Overture Maps data also lists 23 grocery shops and supermarkets, 18 healthcare facilities, 21 sports facilities and 7 parks and green areas.
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 10.7% of the land in Cisterna di Latina, compared with 10.1% in the province and 8.2% in the region. In 2024 built-up land grew by 4.6 hectares.
Radon and contaminated sites
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 4 contaminated sites, or sites still under investigation, in Cisterna di Latina, and 4 more have 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 Cisterna di Latina: 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 Cisterna di Latina 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 312 inhabited census areas in Cisterna di Latina. Half of the residents live in areas scoring 64 or more.
Residents by band
- modest 0.4%
- fair 61.8%
- good 37.7%
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.
- 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.
- Contaminated sites, ISPRA, MOSAICO - Banca dati nazionale dei siti oggetto di procedimento di bonifica. Licence CC BY 4.0, updated to 12 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 059005. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.