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Quargnento: 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 Corrente 1, Quargnento.

Quargnento, San Dalmazzo and Carrà's home village

The Romanesque basilica of San Dalmazzo is the best-known monument of Quargnento, a village in the countryside north-west of Alessandria, where the plain starts to rise towards the Monferrato hills. The painter Carlo Carrà was born here, and today Quargnento is a farming and residential village a short drive from the provincial capital for work and services.

Homes for sale are mostly detached houses and courtyard houses with outbuildings, often brick-built and in need of renovation, alongside newer small villas on the edge of the village. In an old country house, the points to check are damp in the ground-floor walls, roofs and heating and electrics; for outbuildings, also their planning status.

There are 1,334 residents (2023), down 4.5% on 2011 according to Istat, the national statistics office. The average age is 47.9, a little below the 48.9 of the province of Alessandria, over-65s are 27.5% and foreign residents 7.1%. Average incomes are slightly above the provincial average.

The province of Alessandria has 127 municipalities in seismic zone 3 and 60 in zone 4. Quargnento is in zone 4, the lowest, with an expected ground acceleration of 0.048 g.

Among fields and drainage ditches, the report checks the official flood maps for the address, and the landslide maps for the first slopes, and finds the parcel on the Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate) maps, together with distances to services measured from the house.

Key points

  • Farming village north-west of Alessandria, with the basilica of San Dalmazzo.
  • 1,334 residents, down 4.5% since 2011.
  • Seismic zone 4, the lowest on the scale.
  • Average age 47.9, below the provincial 48.9.

Overview

Quargnento is a municipality in the province of Alessandria, in Piemonte. At the end of 2023 it had 1,334 residents, ranked 48 of 187 municipalities in the province.

Earthquakes

For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Quargnento 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 0.048 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 4.5%. The estimated average age is 48 years, in line with the province. 28% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 27%). Foreign residents make up 7.1% of the population. On average, a household has 2.3 members.

Income and climate

In tax year 2024, taxpayers in Quargnento declared an average taxable income of 25,872 euros, in line with the province (25,143 euros). The Italian average is 24,895 euros.

Quargnento is in climate zone E, with 2,581 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 121 metres above sea level.

Services

In the official Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health lists, Quargnento has 2 schools and 1 pharmacy. The Overture Maps data also lists 1 healthcare facility.

The data shows no grocery shops and supermarkets within the municipality, against a provincial average of 0.6 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 4.6% of the land in Quargnento, compared with 7.2% in the province and 6.7% in the region. In 2024 built-up land grew by 1.0 hectares.

Radon and contaminated sites

Quargnento is one of the municipalities designated as a radon priority area 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 Quargnento.

Landslides and flooding

Landslide and flood hazard changes from one street to the next even within Quargnento: 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 Quargnento 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 25 inhabited census areas in Quargnento. Half of the residents live in areas scoring 61 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 006141. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.