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Corbara: what to know before buying a home

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

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Corbara, tomato country below the Lattari mountains

Many people know the name Corbara from a tomato before they know the town: the corbarino, a small tomato grown on the sloping fields of this corner of the Agro nocerino-sarnese, the farming plain between Naples and Salerno. The town sits where the flat land starts to climb towards the Lattari mountains, the ridge that drops down to the Amalfi Coast on its far side. Nocera and Salerno are where people go for work, offices and hospitals.

The municipality has two faces. Lower down, houses line the roads leading to the plain, closer together and more recent. Higher up there are terraces, vegetable plots and scattered homes on the hillside. If you are looking on the slope, expect narrow lanes and steep driveways, and check the plot carefully: on Campanian hillsides the stability of the ground and the way water runs off after heavy rain both matter. The report reads the official landslide and flood maps for the exact address.

Istat, the national statistics office, counts 2,481 residents in 2023, down 1.6% on 2011, a small change. The average age of 43.8 is lower than the provincial figure of 45.2, and over-65s make up 20.7% against 22.7% across the province of Salerno. Foreign residents are few, at 0.9%.

For a town of this size there are plenty of school-related places, 9 of them, and 26 cafés and restaurants. There is one pharmacy and one supermarket.

Corbara is in seismic zone 3 of the Civil Protection classification, with expected ground acceleration of about 0.116 g; most of the province is in zone 2. In older masonry houses, ask about the condition of floors and roof and any strengthening work done after 1980.

Key points

  • On the first slopes of the Lattari mountains, above the Sarno plain.
  • Population down 1.6% since 2011, average age 43.8.
  • Seismic zone 3, expected acceleration about 0.116 g.
  • On the hillside, check landslide and run-off maps for the exact address.

Overview

Corbara is a municipality in the province of Salerno, in Campania. At the end of 2023 it had 2,481 residents, ranked 72 of 158 municipalities in the province.

Earthquakes

For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Corbara is in seismic zone 3, a zone where strong earthquakes are possible but rare. Only 43 of 158 municipalities in the province are in zone 3.

In the built-up area, the expected ground shaking (peak ground acceleration, PGA) is about 0.116 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 1.6%. The estimated average age is 44 years, in line with the province. 21% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 21%). Foreign residents make up 0.9% of the population. On average, a household has 2.6 members.

Income and climate

In tax year 2024, taxpayers in Corbara declared an average taxable income of 19,209 euros, in line with the province (19,912 euros). The Italian average is 24,895 euros.

Corbara is in climate zone C, with 1,349 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 167 metres above sea level.

Services

In the official Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health lists, Corbara has 9 schools and 1 pharmacy. The Overture Maps data also lists 1 grocery shop and 1 sports facility.

The data shows no healthcare facilities within the municipality, against a provincial average of 0.7 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 8.1% of the land in Corbara, compared with 8.0% in the province and 10.6% in the region. In 2024 built-up land stayed almost the same.

Radon and contaminated sites

Official databases list no contaminated sites in Corbara.

Landslides and flooding

Landslide and flood hazard changes from one street to the next even within Corbara: 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 Corbara 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 17 inhabited census areas in Corbara. Half of the residents live in areas scoring 67 or more.

Residents by band

  • fair 29.2%
  • good 70.8%

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 065047. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.