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Comun Nuovo: what to know before buying a home

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

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Comun Nuovo, family homes on the plain south of Bergamo

Comun Nuovo is a village on the Bergamo plain, south of the city, in the belt of farmland where old rural centres have grown over recent decades with estates of detached houses and small blocks of flats. The land is flat, distances are short and Bergamo can be reached by car without driving through any large town, which is why many residents chose it.

Unlike many municipalities in the province, the population here is rising. There are 4,438 residents, up 6.6% on the 4,163 counted in 2011 by Istat, the Italian statistics office, and the average age of 43.0 is lower than the provincial figure of 45.2. People over 65 make up 18.2%, households have 2.41 members on average and foreign residents account for 7.6%. Declared incomes sit just below the provincial average.

Buyers will mostly find recent houses, often with a garden and a garage, around a small centre. The data lists 22 services across the whole municipality: enough for daily shopping and schools for younger children, while for everything else people look to the larger towns nearby and to Bergamo. Built-up land covers a large share of the area, a sign of heavy construction, so it is worth checking what surrounds the plot, including workshops and industrial units.

For earthquakes the Bergamo area is uniform: all 243 municipalities are in seismic zone 3, and the expected ground acceleration in Comun Nuovo is about 0.115 g. For houses built in the last twenty years this matters less; for older ones, ask what work has been done on floors and roof.

The Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate) publishes the cadastral maps for the municipality, so the report goes from the address to the plot and checks the official flood maps, useful on a plain crossed by irrigation ditches and canals.

Key points

  • Plain village south of Bergamo, grown with detached houses and small blocks.
  • 4,438 residents, up 6.6% since 2011.
  • Average age 43.0, below the provincial 45.2.
  • Seismic zone 3, like the whole Bergamo province.

Overview

Comun Nuovo is a municipality in the province of Bergamo, in Lombardia. At the end of 2023 it had 4,438 residents, ranked 89 of 243 municipalities in the province.

Earthquakes

For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Comun Nuovo is in seismic zone 3, a zone where strong earthquakes are possible but rare. All 243 municipalities in the province are in the same zone.

In the built-up area, the expected ground shaking (peak ground acceleration, PGA) is about 0.115 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 6.6%. The estimated average age is 43 years, lower than the province average (45). 18% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 24%). Foreign residents make up 7.6% of the population. On average, a household has 2.4 members.

Income and climate

In tax year 2024, taxpayers in Comun Nuovo declared an average taxable income of 26,138 euros, in line with the province (26,939 euros). The Italian average is 24,895 euros.

Comun Nuovo is in climate zone E, with 2,516 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 188 metres above sea level.

Services

In the official Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health lists, Comun Nuovo has 4 schools and 1 pharmacy. The Overture Maps data also lists 2 grocery shops and supermarkets, 1 healthcare facility and 1 sports facility.

There are 0.2 healthcare facilities per 1,000 residents, fewer than the province average (0.5).

Public transport

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

How built-up it is

Buildings, roads, car parks and other sealed surfaces cover 27.1% of the land in Comun Nuovo, compared with 12.0% in the province and 12.2% in the region. In 2024 built-up land grew by 0.9 hectares.

Radon and contaminated sites

Comun Nuovo 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 contaminated sites in Comun Nuovo.

Landslides and flooding

Landslide and flood hazard changes from one street to the next even within Comun Nuovo: 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 Comun Nuovo 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 25 inhabited census areas in Comun Nuovo. Half of the residents live in areas scoring 71 or more.

Residents by band

  • fair 26.4%
  • good 73.6%

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 016081. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.