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Roncobello: what to know before buying a home

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

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Roncobello, a holiday village in the upper Val Brembana

Above a thousand metres, in the upper Val Brembana, Roncobello is a mountain village in the province of Bergamo with a few hundred residents and many holiday homes. In summer it fills up with holidaymakers and walkers heading for the trails of the Orobie Alps; in winter it goes quiet again. It is in climate zone F: snow, cold and the heating on for most of the year.

Homes are mainly village houses, small villas and flats in small blocks built for holidaymakers. If you are buying a second home, the fixed costs count (heating, service charges, roof upkeep), as do the state of the services after years of occasional use and car access in snow. For everything else, from work to hospital, people drive down the valley towards Bergamo.

Roncobello is not losing residents: in 2023 there were 432, up 0.7% on 2011. The population is older, though: an estimated average age of 50.6 against 45.2 in the province, and over-65s at 34.7% against 22.5% across the Bergamo area. Foreign residents account for 1.6%. Declared incomes are below the provincial average.

All 243 municipalities in the province of Bergamo are in seismic zone 3 of the national classification kept by the Civil Protection Department, and in Roncobello the expected ground acceleration in the built-up area is about 0.065 g. On the slopes, the real concerns are landslides, debris flows and torrent floods, which the report checks on the official maps for the address.

The Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate) publishes the municipality's cadastral maps, and the report traces the address back to its land parcel.

Key points

  • Holiday village above 1,000 metres in the Val Brembana.
  • Population up 0.7% since 2011, now 432.
  • Over-65s at 34.7%, against 22.5% in the province.
  • All 243 Bergamo municipalities in seismic zone 3.

Overview

Roncobello is a municipality in the province of Bergamo, in Lombardia. At the end of 2023 it had 432 residents, among the smallest in the province (221 of 243).

Earthquakes

For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Roncobello is in seismic zone 3, a zone where strong earthquakes are possible but rare. All 243 municipalities in the province 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 number of residents is nearly unchanged. The estimated average age is 51 years, higher than the province average (45). 35% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 24%). Foreign residents make up 1.6% of the population. On average, a household has 1.9 members.

Income and climate

In tax year 2024, taxpayers in Roncobello declared an average taxable income of 22,839 euros, below the provincial average (26,939 euros). The Italian average is 24,895 euros.

Roncobello is in climate zone F, with 3,500 heating degree days, with no limits on when heating may be used. The same table puts the town hall at 1,007 metres above sea level.

Services

In the official Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health lists, Roncobello has 1 pharmacy. The Overture Maps data also lists 2 sports facilities and 1 green area.

The data shows no schools within the municipality, against a provincial average of 0.9 per 1,000 residents.

Public transport

The open timetables available for the area do not list any stops within the territory of Roncobello.

How built-up it is

Buildings, roads, car parks and other sealed surfaces cover 1.3% of the land in Roncobello, compared with 12.0% in the province and 12.2% in the region. In 2024 built-up land stayed almost the same.

Radon and contaminated sites

Roncobello is not among the radon priority areas designated by the Regione Lombardia 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 Roncobello.

Landslides and flooding

Landslide and flood hazard changes from one street to the next even within Roncobello: 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 Roncobello 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 11 inhabited census areas in Roncobello. Half of the residents live in areas scoring 61 or more.

Residents by band

  • fair 97.6%
  • good 2.4%

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 016184. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.