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Monleale: what to know before buying a home

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

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Monleale, a village in the hills around Tortona

Monleale sits on the first hills of the Tortona area, where the plain around Tortona begins to rise towards the Apennines. It is a small municipality, made up of a compact centre and houses and farmsteads scattered along the hill roads.

Daily life looks to Tortona and the towns of the plain, reached by car: that is where the secondary schools, the hospital and the railway stations are. Services in the village are few but present: Overture Maps records 5.38 bars and restaurants per 1,000 residents, against 5.20 in the province, while pharmacies on the Ministry of Health lists come to 1.79 per 1,000 residents, against 0.47.

In 2023 there were 558 residents, 35 fewer than in 2011, a modest fall of 5.9%. The average age, 49.3, is close to that of the province of Alessandria (48.9), and foreign nationals make up 12.7%. Declared incomes are in line with the provincial average, in fact slightly above it.

The housing is mostly brick houses with a yard and rural buildings, some needing work. Before buying, check damp, roofs and floors, and for an isolated farmstead also the access road and drainage. In the hills, location matters: on steep slopes or near streams the report compares the plot with the official landslide and flood maps.

The province of Alessandria is split between seismic zones 3 and 4: Monleale is in zone 3 along with 126 other municipalities, with an expected acceleration of about 0.092 g, a moderate hazard. The Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate) publishes cadastral maps, and the report identifies the plot from the address.

Key points

  • Small municipality on the first hills of the Tortona area.
  • Residents down 5.9% since 2011, foreign nationals 12.7%.
  • Declared incomes in line with the provincial average.
  • Seismic zone 3, expected acceleration about 0.092 g.

Overview

Monleale is a municipality in the province of Alessandria, in Piemonte. At the end of 2023 it had 558 residents, ranked 110 of 187 municipalities in the province.

Earthquakes

For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Monleale is in seismic zone 3, a zone where strong earthquakes are possible but rare. Most municipalities in the province (127 of 187) are in the same zone.

In the built-up area, the expected ground shaking (peak ground acceleration, PGA) is about 0.092 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 5.9%. The estimated average age is 49 years, in line with the province. 29% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 27%). Foreign residents make up 12.7% of the population. On average, a household has 2.1 members.

Income and climate

In tax year 2024, taxpayers in Monleale declared an average taxable income of 25,616 euros, in line with the province (25,143 euros). The Italian average is 24,895 euros.

Monleale is in climate zone E, with 2,580 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 184 metres above sea level.

Services

In the official Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health lists, Monleale has 1 pharmacy. The Overture Maps data also lists 1 grocery shop and 1 sports facility.

The data shows no schools within the municipality, against a provincial average of 1.0 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 5.5% of the land in Monleale, compared with 7.2% in the province and 6.7% in the region. In 2024 built-up land stayed almost the same.

Radon and contaminated sites

Monleale 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 Monleale.

Landslides and flooding

Landslide and flood hazard changes from one street to the next even within Monleale: 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 Monleale 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 16 inhabited census areas in Monleale. Half of the residents live in areas scoring 58 or more.

Residents by band

  • fair 66.0%
  • good 34.0%

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 006101. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.