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Lainate: what to know before buying a home

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

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The report looks at the exact point: landslide and flood risk, seismic zone, price per square metre for the area, services and nearby stops.

For example: Via Re Umberto Primo 6, Lainate.

Lainate, Villa Litta, Barbaiana and the Lakes motorway

Villa Visconti Borromeo Litta, whose nymphaeum and trick fountains still catch garden visitors by surprise, is what most people know Lainate for. Around the villa a small town has grown up in the area north-west of Milan, bordering Rho, Garbagnate and Arese and a few kilometres from the Rho-Pero trade fair grounds.

The A8 Milan to the Lakes motorway has an exit at Lainate, the town's strongest point for anyone who drives. There is no railway station, though: trains are caught in neighbouring towns such as Rho, and before buying it is worth timing how long it takes to reach them at rush hour.

Besides the main town there are the villages of Barbaiana and Grancia, with areas of detached houses and low-rise flats, and large industrial zones along the main roads. Buildings and paving cover a very large share of the land, as across most of the Milan hinterland, and the green land along the Lura stream is one of the few continuous open strips.

There are 26,327 residents (2023), up 5.1% on 2011. The estimated average age is 46.0, 23.4% of residents are over 65 and foreign nationals make up 6.2%. Declared incomes are below the metropolitan average, which Milan keeps very high.

Seismic hazard is minimal: zone 4 on the Civil Protection scale, with expected ground acceleration of about 0.041 g. What matters more is the age of the building, its energy rating and noise, if the house is near the motorway or a main road. The report measures all of this from the address, including flood risk along the Lura, and finds the land parcel with the Revenue Agency's cadastral maps.

Key points

  • Villa Litta, with its nymphaeum and trick fountains.
  • A8 motorway exit in town, no railway station.
  • Population up 5.1% since 2011.
  • Seismic zone 4, expected ground acceleration about 0.041 g.

Overview

Lainate is a municipality in the province of Milano, in Lombardia. At the end of 2023 it had 26,327 residents, ranked 20 of 133 municipalities in the province.

Earthquakes

For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Lainate is in seismic zone 4, the lowest-risk zone, where strong earthquakes are very rare. Most municipalities in the province (73 of 133) are in the same zone.

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 grown by 5.1%. The estimated average age is 46 years, in line with the province. 23% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 24%). Foreign residents make up 6.2% of the population. On average, a household has 2.3 members.

Income and climate

In tax year 2024, taxpayers in Lainate declared an average taxable income of 30,600 euros, below the provincial average (33,635 euros). The Italian average is 24,895 euros.

Lainate is in climate zone E, with 2,505 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 176 metres above sea level.

Services

In the official Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health lists, Lainate has 11 schools and 7 pharmacies. The Overture Maps data also lists 9 grocery shops and supermarkets, 18 healthcare facilities, 25 sports facilities and 3 parks and green areas.

There are 0.4 schools 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 Lainate.

How built-up it is

Buildings, roads, car parks and other sealed surfaces cover 54.1% of the land in Lainate, compared with 32.0% in the province and 12.2% in the region. In 2024 built-up land grew by 2.1 hectares.

Radon and contaminated sites

Lainate 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 one contaminated site, or site still under investigation, in Lainate, and 11 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 Lainate: 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 Lainate 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 211 inhabited census areas in Lainate. Half of the residents live in areas scoring 71 or more.

Residents by band

  • modest 0.2%
  • fair 16.7%
  • good 83.1%

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 015116. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.