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Colverde: what to know before buying a home

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

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For example: Via Como 1, Colverde.

Colverde, three villages merged between Como and Switzerland

Colverde is a young municipality, created by merging Drezzo, Gironico and Parè, three villages in the hills west of Como, close to the border with the Swiss canton of Ticino. Each of the three has kept its own centre, and between them lie woods, meadows and estates of detached houses built in recent decades.

Location explains much of who moves here. Como is close, Milan is reachable by car, and Switzerland is a few minutes away, so cross-border commuting matters here too. Daily life is mostly organised around the car. Average declared incomes are a little below the provincial average, but some of the earnings of people who work in Switzerland may not appear in Italian tax returns.

Unlike many nearby municipalities, Colverde is growing. Istat, the national statistics office, counted 5,529 residents in 2023, up 5.6% on the three former municipalities combined in 2011. The population is also younger than average, with an age of 45.3 against 46.3 for the province and over-65s at 21.7%. Foreign residents make up 4.0%. The data list only 25 services in total, since people use Como and the surrounding towns for much of what they need; there are 3 pharmacies.

Earthquake risk is low. All 147 municipalities in the province of Como are in seismic zone 4 on the Civil Protection Department's scale, and expected ground acceleration here is about 0.039 g. For a house from the 1970s or 1980s, insulation, heating and the roof matter more.

The hilly ground, with narrow valleys and small streams, can have spots prone to landslides or standing water, which the report checks on the official maps for the exact address. The Revenue Agency publishes cadastral maps; after a merger, the names of the old municipalities may still appear in land registry records, and the report still traces the plot from the address.

Key points

  • Formed by merging Drezzo, Gironico and Parè, west of Como.
  • 5,529 residents, up 5.6% since 2011.
  • Over-65s at 21.7%, below the provincial average.
  • Seismic zone 4, like the whole province of Como.

Overview

Colverde is a municipality in the province of Como, in Lombardia. At the end of 2023 it had 5,529 residents, ranked 28 of 147 municipalities in the province.

Earthquakes

For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Colverde is in seismic zone 4, the lowest-risk zone, where strong earthquakes are very rare. All 147 municipalities in the province are in the same zone.

In the built-up area, the expected ground shaking (peak ground acceleration, PGA) is about 0.039 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 grown by 5.6%. The estimated average age is 45 years, in line with the province. 22% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 24%). Foreign residents make up 4.0% of the population. On average, a household has 2.3 members.

Income and climate

In tax year 2024, taxpayers in Colverde declared an average taxable income of 24,446 euros, below the provincial average (26,761 euros). The Italian average is 24,895 euros.

Colverde is in climate zone E, with 2,676 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 385 metres above sea level.

Services

In the official Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health lists, Colverde has 4 schools and 3 pharmacies. The Overture Maps data also lists 1 grocery shop, 1 healthcare facility and 1 sports facility.

There are 0.2 healthcare facilities per 1,000 residents, fewer than the province average (0.6).

Public transport

The open timetables available for the area do not list any stops within the territory of Colverde.

How built-up it is

Buildings, roads, car parks and other sealed surfaces cover 16.7% of the land in Colverde, compared with 12.3% in the province and 12.2% in the region. In 2024 built-up land stayed almost the same.

Radon and contaminated sites

Colverde 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 no open contaminated sites in Colverde; one has been cleaned up or closed.

Landslides and flooding

Landslide and flood hazard changes from one street to the next even within Colverde: 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 Colverde 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 36 inhabited census areas in Colverde. Half of the residents live in areas scoring 64 or more.

Residents by band

  • fair 53.6%
  • good 46.4%

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 013251. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.