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Odalengo Grande: 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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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 Pozzo 1, Odalengo Grande.

Odalengo Grande, in the hills of the Casale Monferrato area

Odalengo Grande lies in the Monferrato hills around Casale, the hilly part of the province of Alessandria south of the river Po, at around four hundred metres. The land is a mix of farmed and wooded hills, with the main village and a few scattered hamlets. For bigger services people go to Casale Monferrato, the main town of the area.

The population profile is worth knowing: the average age is 54.3, against 48.9 in the province, and over-65s make up 37.9%, compared with 28.6%. Istat, the national statistics institute, counted 406 residents in 2023, down 16.6% since 2011. Foreign nationals are 8.6% and declared incomes are below the provincial average.

The Monferrato attracts people looking for a country house with a view, often from other regions or from abroad. Here you find village houses, farmhouses with land and rural buildings to restore. The stone and brick of older houses needs care: damp, cracks and the state of the roof are the first things to have a surveyor look at.

Odalengo Grande is in seismic zone 4, the lowest on the scale used by Italy's Civil Protection Department, along with 59 other municipalities in the province; the expected ground acceleration is about 0.038 g. The risk to look at more carefully, in these hills, is slope instability.

The Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate) publishes cadastral maps and the report links the address to its land parcel, together with recorded landslides around the house and the other details on the property.

Key points

  • Village in the Monferrato hills near Casale, around four hundred metres.
  • Over-65s at 37.9%, average age 54.3.
  • Seismic zone 4, expected acceleration about 0.038 g.
  • Farmhouses: have damp, cracks and roofs checked.

Overview

Odalengo Grande is a municipality in the province of Alessandria, in Piemonte. At the end of 2023 it had 406 residents, ranked 135 of 187 municipalities in the province.

Earthquakes

For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Odalengo Grande is in seismic zone 4, the lowest-risk zone, where strong earthquakes are very rare. Only 60 of 187 municipalities in the province are in zone 4.

In the built-up area, the expected ground shaking (peak ground acceleration, PGA) is about 0.038 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 16.6%. The estimated average age is 54 years, higher than the province average (49). 38% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 27%). Foreign residents make up 8.6% of the population. On average, a household has 2.0 members.

Income and climate

In tax year 2024, taxpayers in Odalengo Grande declared an average taxable income of 21,498 euros, below the provincial average (25,143 euros). The Italian average is 24,895 euros.

Odalengo Grande is in climate zone E, with 2,802 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 381 metres above sea level.

Services

In the official Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health lists, Odalengo Grande has 1 pharmacy. The Overture Maps data also lists 1 healthcare 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 3.4% of the land in Odalengo Grande, 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

Odalengo Grande is not among the radon priority areas designated by the Regione Piemonte in 2023. 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 contaminated sites in Odalengo Grande.

Landslides and flooding

Landslide and flood hazard changes from one street to the next even within Odalengo Grande: 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 Odalengo Grande 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 22 inhabited census areas in Odalengo Grande. Half of the residents live in areas scoring 55 or more.

Residents by band

  • modest 6.1%
  • fair 93.9%

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 006116. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.