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Pergine Valsugana: 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: Viale Dante Alighieri 1, Pergine Valsugana.

Pergine Valsugana, the castle and Lake Caldonazzo

Pergine is the gateway to the Valsugana, the first sizeable town you reach heading east from Trento, where the Fersina valley and the Valle dei Mocheni open out. Its castle stands on a wooded hill above the town and can be seen from far away. To the south the municipality reaches the shore of Lake Caldonazzo at San Cristoforo, a summer resort hamlet with beaches and campsites.

Being so close to Trento explains its recent growth. The Valsugana main road and the Trento to Bassano railway, with a station in town, make commuting to the city easy. The municipality is made up of many hamlets spread between the valley floor and the slopes, so buyers can choose between flats in the centre, detached houses on the flat and village houses on the hillside. Pergine is in climate zone F, the coldest band in the Italian scale, so heating and insulation weigh heavily on running costs.

Istat, the national statistics office, counted 21,672 residents in 2023, up 6.0% on 2011. The estimated average age, 44.3, is below the provincial 45.4, and 21.2% of residents are over 65. Foreign nationals make up 7.8%.

Trentino uses the tavolare land registry, inherited from Austria: ownership is recorded in the Libro fondiario (land book) and parcel maps are kept by the autonomous province rather than the Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate). For an address in Pergine the report therefore does not show the cadastral parcel and says why, while natural hazards, services and distances work as elsewhere in Italy. When buying, have the notary check the land book extract from the very start.

Seismic hazard is low. Pergine is in zone 3, like 147 municipalities in Trentino, with expected ground acceleration of about 0.076 g. On the slopes and along the Fersina, though, landslide and flood hazard should be checked for the individual address.

Key points

  • Gateway to the Valsugana, with Lake Caldonazzo at San Cristoforo.
  • Tavolare land registry: the report explains why no parcel is shown.
  • Population up 6.0% since 2011, average age 44.3.
  • Seismic zone 3, expected ground acceleration about 0.076 g.

Overview

Pergine Valsugana is a municipality in the province of Trento, in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. At the end of 2023 it had 21,672 residents, the third most populous in the province.

Earthquakes

For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Pergine Valsugana 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 0.076 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 grown by 6.0%. The estimated average age is 44 years, in line with the province. 21% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 22%). Foreign residents make up 7.8% of the population. On average, a household has 2.3 members.

Income and climate

In tax year 2024, taxpayers in Pergine Valsugana declared an average taxable income of 25,903 euros, in line with the province (25,718 euros). The Italian average is 24,895 euros.

Pergine Valsugana is in climate zone F, with 3,147 heating degree days, with no limits on when heating may be used. The same table puts the town hall at 482 metres above sea level.

Services

In the official Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health lists, Pergine Valsugana has 12 schools and 6 pharmacies. The Overture Maps data also lists 11 grocery shops and supermarkets, 9 healthcare facilities, 22 sports facilities and 8 parks and green areas.

There are 0.5 grocery shops and supermarkets per 1,000 residents, fewer than the province average (0.8).

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 9.9% of the land in Pergine Valsugana, compared with 3.1% in the province and 2.9% in the region. In 2024 built-up land grew by 1.6 hectares.

Radon and contaminated sites

Pergine Valsugana 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 3 contaminated sites, or sites still under investigation, in Pergine Valsugana, and 6 more have been cleaned up or closed. The report tells you whether one is close to the address.

Landslides and flooding

Landslide and flood hazard changes from one street to the next even within Pergine Valsugana: 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 Pergine Valsugana 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 207 inhabited census areas in Pergine Valsugana. Half of the residents live in areas scoring 72 or more.

Residents by band

  • modest 0.1%
  • fair 24.2%
  • good 63.0%
  • very good 12.7%

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 022139. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.