Skip to content
Vicinalia
Italiano Sign up

Mombercelli: what to know before buying a home

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

Liveability index free for any address

Search for an address in Mombercelli

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: Corso Alessandria 2, Mombercelli.

Mombercelli, Barbera hills south-east of Asti

Vineyard-covered hills, farmhouses on the ridges and a village running down from its hilltop to the valley floor: Mombercelli is a municipality in the Asti hills, south-east of Asti, in the heart of Barbera wine country. Farming, and wine in particular, is still an important part of the local economy.

The property market has a bit of everything: village houses on several floors, farmhouses (cascine) with land and vineyards, and detached homes built in recent decades below the centre. Asti is the town for work, the hospital and secondary schools, a reasonable drive away. For a farmhouse, check the roof, damp and the walls, and ask whether the land has vineyards with planting rights or tenancy agreements still running. The village has 1 pharmacy, 3 supermarkets and 3 school sites.

Istat, the national statistics office, counted 2,058 residents in 2023, down 12.2% on 2011. The average age is 49.7 (province: 47.9), 30.1% are over 65 and 12.0% are foreign nationals, a high share for a small hill village. Declared incomes are below the average for the province of Asti.

Southern Piedmont has little seismic activity. Mombercelli is in seismic zone 4, the lowest, like 112 other municipalities in the province, with expected ground acceleration of 0.045 g.

On the marl and sand hills of the Asti area, slope stability is the thing to look at, along with the streams on the valley floors. The report starts from the address, finds the parcel on the Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate) maps and checks the official landslide and flood maps.

Key points

  • Barbera hills south-east of Asti.
  • Farmhouses with vineyards: check leases and rights.
  • Foreign nationals are 12.0% of residents.
  • Seismic zone 4, the lowest on the scale.

Overview

Mombercelli is a municipality in the province of Asti, in Piemonte. At the end of 2023 it had 2,058 residents, ranked 15 of 117 municipalities in the province.

Earthquakes

For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Mombercelli is in seismic zone 4, the lowest-risk zone, where strong earthquakes are very rare. Most municipalities in the province (113 of 117) are in the same zone.

In the built-up area, the expected ground shaking (peak ground acceleration, PGA) is about 0.045 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 12.2%. The estimated average age is 50 years, higher than the province average (48). 30% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 27%). Foreign residents make up 12.0% of the population. On average, a household has 2.1 members.

Income and climate

In tax year 2024, taxpayers in Mombercelli declared an average taxable income of 22,306 euros, below the provincial average (24,302 euros). The Italian average is 24,895 euros.

Mombercelli is in climate zone E, with 2,604 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 233 metres above sea level.

Services

In the official Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health lists, Mombercelli has 3 schools and 1 pharmacy. The Overture Maps data also lists 3 grocery shops and supermarkets, 2 healthcare facilities and 2 sports facilities.

There are 1.5 grocery shops and supermarkets per 1,000 residents, more than the province average (0.6).

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 8.8% of the land in Mombercelli, compared with 7.3% in the province and 6.7% in the region. In 2024 built-up land stayed almost the same.

Radon and contaminated sites

Mombercelli is not among the radon priority areas designated by the Regione Piemonte 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 Mombercelli.

Landslides and flooding

Landslide and flood hazard changes from one street to the next even within Mombercelli: 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 Mombercelli 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 37 inhabited census areas in Mombercelli. Half of the residents live in areas scoring 60 or more.

Residents by band

  • fair 65.2%
  • good 34.8%

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 005066. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.