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Loro Piceno: what to know before buying a home

A municipality in the province of Macerata, Marche. 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: Contrada Grazie Fiastra 1, Loro Piceno.

Loro Piceno, vino cotto country in the Macerata hills

Loro Piceno sits on a hill inland from Macerata, at around 440 metres, between the Chienti and Tenna valleys, with the Sibillini mountains on the horizon. The village is known for vino cotto, a cooked wine from the farming tradition that is still celebrated with its own festival, and the old centre keeps the layout of a fortified village.

Buyers find brick houses in the centre, often on several levels with views over the countryside, and farmhouses scattered among fields and olive groves. Streets climb, and fuller services are in the larger towns of the province, reached by car. Declared incomes are below the average for the province of Macerata.

The population fall is steep: Istat, Italy's national statistics office, counted 2,133 residents in 2023, down 14.0% on 2011. The mean age is 49.5, against 47.2 in the province, and over-65s make up 31.3%. Foreign residents account for 10.5%.

Loro Piceno is in seismic zone 2, like 48 other municipalities in the province, with an expected ground acceleration of 0.175 g. In this part of the Marche, ask whether the building was damaged or repaired after the 2016 earthquakes and whether the paperwork has been closed.

The Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate) publishes the cadastral maps. The report derives the land parcel from the address and reads slope and the official landslide maps for that spot, a check worth doing for farmhouses on the slopes.

Key points

  • Hill village between the Chienti and Tenna, home of vino cotto.
  • Population down 14.0% since 2011.
  • Seismic zone 2, expected acceleration 0.175 g.
  • Brick houses in the centre, farmhouses in the countryside.

Overview

Loro Piceno is a municipality in the province of Macerata, in Marche. At the end of 2023 it had 2,133 residents, ranked 26 of 55 municipalities in the province.

Earthquakes

For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Loro Piceno is in seismic zone 2, a zone where strong earthquakes are possible. Most municipalities in the province (49 of 55) are in the same zone.

In the built-up area, the expected ground shaking (peak ground acceleration, PGA) is about 0.175 g, a medium-high value: the level with a 10% probability of being exceeded in 50 years, on rock.

For anyone buying in Loro Piceno, the building matters a great deal: ask for the design year, whether it met the 2008 seismic standards, and whether any seismic retrofit has been carried out.

Population

Compared with the 2011 census, the resident population has fallen by 14.0%. The estimated average age is 49 years, higher than the province average (47). 31% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 26%). Foreign residents make up 10.5% of the population. On average, a household has 2.3 members.

Income and climate

In tax year 2024, taxpayers in Loro Piceno declared an average taxable income of 21,180 euros, below the provincial average (23,312 euros). The Italian average is 24,895 euros.

Loro Piceno is in climate zone E, with 2,150 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 436 metres above sea level.

Services

In the official Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health lists, Loro Piceno has 3 schools and 1 pharmacy. The Overture Maps data also lists 3 grocery shops and supermarkets 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 4.3% of the land in Loro Piceno, compared with 5.7% in the province and 7.0% in the region. In 2024 built-up land grew by 1.0 hectares.

Radon and contaminated sites

According to the ISPRA map, the estimated radon emission in the municipality is low. 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 Loro Piceno.

Landslides and flooding

Landslide and flood hazard changes from one street to the next even within Loro Piceno: 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 Loro Piceno 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 21 inhabited census areas in Loro Piceno. Half of the residents live in areas scoring 58 or more.

Residents by band

  • modest 1.3%
  • fair 82.7%
  • good 16.0%

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 043022. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.