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Perlo: what to know before buying a home

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

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Perlo, a village of hills and woods near Ceva

Woods, meadows and scattered houses on a rise at around seven hundred metres: Perlo is a small municipality in the province of Cuneo, in the Ceva area, where the hills start turning into mountains towards the border with Liguria. The houses are split into small clusters linked by narrow, winding roads.

To live here all year you need a car: schools, shops and services are in Ceva and the towns of the valley. Buyers are often after a country house or a farm building with land, and need to look at the access road, utility connections and heating, since this is climate zone F, with cold winters. The report measures travel times to services from the exact location of the house.

In 2023 Istat, Italy's national statistics office, counted 106 residents, against 126 in 2011: a fall of 15.9%. Households have 1.96 members on average, over-65s make up 32.1% and the estimated average age is 51.2, against 46.3 in the province. Declared incomes are below the provincial average.

In the province of Cuneo 141 municipalities are in seismic zone 3 and 106 in zone 4 on the Civil Protection Department's scale. Perlo is in zone 3, with a low expected ground acceleration of about 0.065 g. In farm buildings to restore, the state of the roofs and timber floors matters most.

On sloping land, landslide hazard varies a lot from one plot to the next, and the report reads it from the official maps starting from the address. The Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate) publishes the cadastral maps, so the house can be linked to its land parcel.

Key points

  • Small municipality of hills and woods in the Ceva area.
  • 106 residents in 2023, down 15.9% since 2011.
  • Average age 51.2; over-65s make up 32.1%.
  • Seismic zone 3, low expected acceleration: about 0.065 g.

Overview

Perlo is a municipality in the province of Cuneo, in Piemonte. At the end of 2023 it had 106 residents, ranked 221 of 247 municipalities in the province.

Earthquakes

For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Perlo is in seismic zone 3, a zone where strong earthquakes are possible but rare. Most municipalities in the province (141 of 247) are in the same zone.

In the built-up area, the expected ground shaking (peak ground acceleration, PGA) is about 0.065 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 15.9%. The estimated average age is 51 years, higher than the province average (46). 32% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 27%). Foreign residents make up 0.9% of the population. On average, a household has 2.0 members.

Income and climate

In tax year 2024, taxpayers in Perlo declared an average taxable income of 19,980 euros, below the provincial average (24,913 euros). The Italian average is 24,895 euros.

Perlo is in climate zone F, with 3,179 heating degree days, with no limits on when heating may be used. The same table puts the town hall at 697 metres above sea level.

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 1.3% of the land in Perlo, compared with 5.3% in the province and 6.7% in the region. In 2024 built-up land stayed almost the same.

Radon and contaminated sites

Perlo 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 low. 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 Perlo.

Landslides and flooding

Landslide and flood hazard changes from one street to the next even within Perlo: 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 Perlo 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 8 inhabited census areas in Perlo. Half of the residents live in areas scoring 58 or more.

Residents by band

  • fair 100.0%

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 004162. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.