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Porcia: what to know before buying a home

A municipality in the province of Pordenone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia. 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 Rustighel 1, Porcia.

Porcia, a castle and factories on the edge of Pordenone

Driving in from Pordenone, you barely notice you have entered Porcia: the municipality lies just west of the city and the two built-up areas have grown together. The old core is gathered around the castle of the Counts of Porcia, while towards Pordenone and to the south there are estates of detached houses and small blocks of flats, built largely for people who work in the city or in local firms.

This is industrial country. Porcia is home to the Electrolux washing machine plant, heir to the old Zanussi company, and further west, towards the river Livenza, lies the furniture-making district. Declared incomes are above the average for the province of Pordenone. For buyers, that means a market made up mostly of single and two-family houses with gardens, rather than flats in an old town centre.

Istat, the national statistics office, counted 14,925 residents in 2023, down 2.1% on 2011, or 326 fewer people. The estimated average age of 47.7 is above the provincial figure of 46.6, and over-65s make up 26.3%. Foreign residents account for 8.4%, and households are small, 2.23 people on average.

Friuli knows earthquakes well, and building methods changed after 1976. Porcia is in seismic zone 2 and the expected ground acceleration in the built-up area reaches about 0.204 g, high for a lowland town. In the province, 13 municipalities towards the mountains are in zone 1. For a house built before the 1980s, ask whether structural upgrading has been carried out and which certificates document it.

The land is flat and crossed by irrigation channels and small streams. The report checks, for the individual address, whether the plot falls inside an officially mapped flood area. The Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate) publishes the cadastral maps, so the land parcel can be traced from the address.

Key points

  • Joined to Pordenone, with the Electrolux plant and the old castle.
  • Population down 2.1% since 2011, over-65s at 26.3%.
  • Seismic zone 2, expected acceleration about 0.204 g.
  • Declared incomes above the provincial average.

Overview

Porcia is a municipality in the province of Pordenone, in Friuli-Venezia Giulia. At the end of 2023 it had 14,925 residents, ranked 6 of 50 municipalities in the province.

Earthquakes

For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Porcia is in seismic zone 2, a zone where strong earthquakes are possible. Most municipalities in the province (27 of 50) are in the same zone.

In the built-up area, the expected ground shaking (peak ground acceleration, PGA) is about 0.204 g, a medium-high value: the level with a 10% probability of being exceeded in 50 years, on rock.

For anyone buying in Porcia, the building matters a great deal: ask for the design year, whether it met the 2008 seismic standards, and whether any seismic retrofit has been carried out.

Population

Compared with the 2011 census, the resident population has fallen by 2.1%. The estimated average age is 48 years, in line with the province. 26% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 27%). Foreign residents make up 8.4% of the population. On average, a household has 2.2 members.

Income and climate

In tax year 2024, taxpayers in Porcia declared an average taxable income of 27,893 euros, above the provincial average (25,584 euros). The Italian average is 24,895 euros.

Porcia is in climate zone E, with 2,468 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 29 metres above sea level.

Services

In the official Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health lists, Porcia has 9 schools and 5 pharmacies. The Overture Maps data also lists 9 grocery shops and supermarkets, 5 healthcare facilities, 11 sports facilities and 2 parks and green areas.

There are 0.3 healthcare facilities per 1,000 residents, fewer than the province average (0.5).

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 24.6% of the land in Porcia, compared with 8.5% in the province and 8.1% in the region. In 2024 built-up land grew by 4.3 hectares.

Radon and contaminated sites

Porcia is not among the radon priority areas designated by the Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia in 2024. 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 2 contaminated sites, or sites still under investigation, in Porcia, and one more has 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 Porcia: 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 Porcia 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 96 inhabited census areas in Porcia. Half of the residents live in areas scoring 68 or more.

Residents by band

  • modest 0.7%
  • fair 25.7%
  • good 72.2%
  • very good 1.4%

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 093032. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.