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Cozzo: what to know before buying a home

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

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Cozzo, rice fields and a castle in the Lomellina

Flat plain, rice paddies that turn into sheets of water in spring, canals and farmsteads: Cozzo is a village in the Lomellina, the western part of the province of Pavia, just over a hundred metres above sea level. The centre is dominated by its castle, which gives the village an outline you can recognise from far away. For work and services people look to Mortara, Vercelli or Novara, all within driving distance.

Buying here means choosing a quiet life in a farming village. The market offers village houses, small detached homes and old farm buildings to restore, often with courtyards and outbuildings. On the plain slopes are not an issue, but water is: irrigation channels, a water table close to the surface and rising damp in the walls of older houses. Cellars and ground floors are worth checking. Climate zone E brings foggy, damp winters.

Istat, the national statistics office, counted 344 residents in 2023, against 371 in 2011, down 7.3%. The estimated average age is 52.1, compared with 47.1 in the province, and 32.0% of residents are over 65. Foreign residents make up 11.6%. Incomes are below the average for the province of Pavia.

Earthquake risk is low. Cozzo is in seismic zone 4, the lowest class on the Civil Protection scale, like 27 of the 184 municipalities in the province, with an expected acceleration of about 0.041 g. In older houses, the upkeep of the roof and the state of the walls matter most.

The Revenue Agency's cadastral maps are available, and the report also checks the official flood maps for the address, which is useful on a plain crossed by rivers and canals.

Key points

  • Farming village in the Lomellina, among rice fields and canals.
  • 344 residents in 2023, fewer than in 2011.
  • Older houses: watch out for rising damp.
  • Seismic zone 4, the lowest, acceleration about 0.041 g.

Overview

Cozzo is a municipality in the province of Pavia, in Lombardia. At the end of 2023 it had 344 residents, among the smallest in the province (165 of 184).

Earthquakes

For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Cozzo is in seismic zone 4, the lowest-risk zone, where strong earthquakes are very rare. Only 27 of 184 municipalities in the province are in zone 4.

In the built-up area, the expected ground shaking (peak ground acceleration, PGA) is about 0.041 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 fallen by 7.3%. The estimated average age is 52 years, higher than the province average (47). 32% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 24%). Foreign residents make up 11.6% of the population. On average, a household has 1.9 members.

Income and climate

In tax year 2024, taxpayers in Cozzo declared an average taxable income of 22,099 euros, below the provincial average (26,290 euros). The Italian average is 24,895 euros.

Cozzo is in climate zone E, with 2,680 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 105 metres above sea level.

Services

In the Overture Maps data, Cozzo has 1 grocery shop and 1 green area.

The data shows no schools within the municipality, against a provincial average of 0.9 per 1,000 residents.

Public transport

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

How built-up it is

Buildings, roads, car parks and other sealed surfaces cover 4.9% of the land in Cozzo, compared with 9.6% in the province and 12.2% in the region. In 2024 built-up land stayed almost the same.

Radon and contaminated sites

Cozzo 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 Cozzo.

Landslides and flooding

Landslide and flood hazard changes from one street to the next even within Cozzo: 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 Cozzo 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 9 inhabited census areas in Cozzo. Half of the residents live in areas scoring 51 or more.

Residents by band

  • fair 100.0%

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 018059. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.