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Russi: what to know before buying a home

A municipality in the province of Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna. 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 Faentina Nord 1, Russi.

Russi, a farming town in the plain between Ravenna and Faenza

Surrounded by orchards, vineyards and arable fields, Russi is a small town in the Romagna plain between Ravenna and Faenza. It has a station on the Faenza to Ravenna railway, handy for anyone working in Ravenna. Within the municipality are the Palazzo di San Giacomo, a large country residence built by the Rasponi family, and the excavated remains of a Roman villa.

The housing market is that of a farming and residential town: detached houses with gardens, a few blocks of flats, newer houses on the edges of the centre and farmhouses in the outlying hamlets. The town is flat and compact, and many everyday trips are made on foot or by bike.

Romagna has recent memories of rivers breaking their banks, and in Russi water is the thing to look at. The land is low and the rivers coming down from the Apennines run between embankments that stand higher than the fields around them. The report checks the official flood maps at the address, and here they matter more than landslide maps. If a house has a basement or a cellar, it is also worth asking the neighbours what has happened in recent years.

Istat, the national statistics office, counted 12,285 residents in 2023, up 1.7% on 2011. The estimated average age, 47.2, is close to the provincial figure of 47.4. Households are small, 2.17 people on average, and foreign residents make up 12.8%.

Earthquakes deserve attention here. Russi is in seismic zone 2, like 16 other municipalities in the province of Ravenna, and the expected ground acceleration in the built-up area is about 0.183 g, on the high side. For a brick or stone house in the centre, or a building from the 1960s or 1970s, ask for a structural survey and find out whether any seismic upgrading has been done. The Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate) publishes the cadastral maps and the report finds the plot from the address.

Key points

  • Station on the Faenza to Ravenna railway.
  • Population up 1.7% since 2011.
  • Seismic zone 2, expected acceleration about 0.183 g.
  • Low plain with embanked rivers: flood hazard checked by address.

Overview

Russi is a municipality in the province of Ravenna, in Emilia-Romagna. At the end of 2023 it had 12,285 residents, ranked 6 of 18 municipalities in the province.

Earthquakes

For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Russi is in seismic zone 2, a zone where strong earthquakes are possible. Most municipalities in the province (17 of 18) are in the same zone.

In the built-up area, the expected ground shaking (peak ground acceleration, PGA) is about 0.183 g, a medium-high value: the level with a 10% probability of being exceeded in 50 years, on rock.

For anyone buying in Russi, 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 grown by 1.7%. The estimated average age is 47 years, in line with the province. 26% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 25%). Foreign residents make up 12.8% of the population. On average, a household has 2.2 members.

Income and climate

In tax year 2024, taxpayers in Russi declared an average taxable income of 24,401 euros, in line with the province (25,184 euros). The Italian average is 24,895 euros.

Russi is in climate zone E, with 2,469 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 13 metres above sea level.

Services

In the official Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health lists, Russi has 8 schools and 4 pharmacies. The Overture Maps data also lists 10 grocery shops and supermarkets, 5 healthcare facilities, 7 sports facilities and 1 green area.

There are 0.8 grocery shops and supermarkets per 1,000 residents, more 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 14.0% of the land in Russi, compared with 10.5% in the province and 9.0% in the region. In 2024 built-up land grew by 12.7 hectares.

Radon and contaminated sites

Russi is not among the radon priority areas designated by the Regione Emilia-Romagna in 2026. 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 Russi, and 9 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 Russi: 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 Russi 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 82 inhabited census areas in Russi. Half of the residents live in areas scoring 62 or more.

Residents by band

  • modest 6.4%
  • fair 52.9%
  • good 40.7%

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 039016. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.