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Moena: what to know before buying a home

A municipality in the province of Trento, Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. 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: Strada Saslonch 1, Moena.

Moena, the Ladin gateway to the Val di Fassa

Moena is the first village you reach entering the Val di Fassa from the south, in eastern Trentino, at almost twelve hundred metres among the Dolomites. It is a Ladin-speaking community, the Ladins being a small Alpine language group, with a centre gathered round the square and the Avisio stream. Much of its life is tourism: skiing in winter, walking and mountain holidays in summer. The Puzzone di Moena cheese bears the village's name.

The housing market is shaped by tourist demand. Many flats are second homes or let to visitors, and prices are high for a place of this size. If you plan to live here all year, allow for long, cold winters (climate zone F) with substantial heating costs, and check local and provincial rules on holiday homes. Trento and Bolzano can be reached by car over the passes or through the nearby valleys.

The population is 2,580 (2023 figure from Istat, the national statistics office), down 4.1% since 2011. Over-65s make up 26.7%, above 23.6% for the province of Trento. Foreign residents account for 8.2%. Average incomes are slightly above the provincial figure.

Moena is in seismic zone 3, with an expected ground acceleration of 0.071 g: a low hazard. In the mountains, snow load on the roof, insulation and the state of the heating system matter more.

Trentino uses the land register system known as tavolare: ownership is recorded in the Libro fondiario, and cadastral maps belong to the autonomous province, not to the national Revenue Agency. The report flags this and does not show the land parcel; otherwise it reads the official landslide and flood maps and distances to services.

Key points

  • First village of the Val di Fassa, a Ladin community.
  • Many second homes and holiday lets.
  • Tavolare land register: maps from the province, not the Revenue Agency.
  • Seismic zone 3, expected acceleration 0.071 g.

Overview

Moena is a municipality in the province of Trento, in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. At the end of 2023 it had 2,580 residents, ranked 50 of 166 municipalities in the province.

Earthquakes

For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Moena is in seismic zone 3, a zone where strong earthquakes are possible but rare. Most municipalities in the province (147 of 166) are in the same zone.

In the built-up area, the expected ground shaking (peak ground acceleration, PGA) is about 0.071 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 4.1%. The estimated average age is 48 years, higher than the province average (45). 27% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 22%). Foreign residents make up 8.2% of the population. On average, a household has 2.1 members.

Income and climate

In tax year 2024, taxpayers in Moena declared an average taxable income of 26,667 euros, in line with the province (25,718 euros). The Italian average is 24,895 euros.

Moena is in climate zone F, with 4,238 heating degree days, with no limits on when heating may be used. The same table puts the town hall at 1,184 metres above sea level.

Services

In the official Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health lists, Moena has 2 schools and 1 pharmacy. The Overture Maps data also lists 5 grocery shops and supermarkets, 8 sports facilities and 3 parks and green areas.

The data shows no healthcare facilities within the municipality, against a provincial average of 0.5 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 1.4% of the land in Moena, compared with 3.1% in the province and 2.9% in the region. In 2024 built-up land stayed almost the same.

Radon and contaminated sites

Moena is one of the municipalities designated as a radon priority area by the Provincia autonoma di Trento in 2026. According to the ISPRA map, the estimated radon emission in the municipality is medium. 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 open contaminated sites in Moena; 2 have been cleaned up or closed.

Landslides and flooding

Landslide and flood hazard changes from one street to the next even within Moena: 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

For Moena the Revenue Agency does not publish cadastral maps: the land registry here uses the tavolare (land book) system. The report cannot give a parcel reference, but it still checks risks, services and transport at the address and states this clearly.

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 33 inhabited census areas in Moena. Half of the residents live in areas scoring 67 or more.

Residents by band

  • modest 0.2%
  • fair 46.0%
  • good 53.7%

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 022118. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.