Sant'Agata di Esaro: what to know before buying a home
A municipality in the province of Cosenza, Calabria. Official data on earthquakes, population, services and transport.
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Sant'Agata di Esaro, the upper Esaro valley
Sant'Agata di Esaro looks over the Esaro valley from the hills in the north of the province of Cosenza, at the foot of the mountains that separate this area from the Tyrrhenian coast. It is a farming village with houses clustered on the slope, olive groves and fields all around, and woods higher up. For services, hospital care and work, the reference points are the towns of the Crati valley and Cosenza, reached by car.
Istat, the national statistics office, counts 1,672 residents in 2023, down 16.0% from 1,990 in 2011. The average age is 47.9, against 46.1 in the province, with over-65s at 27.6%. Foreign residents are 0.7% and households have 2.20 people on average. Declared incomes are below the provincial average.
Buyers mostly find village houses on several floors, built or rebuilt in the second half of the twentieth century, alongside a few older stone buildings and rural houses with land. On a slope, look at the gradient of the access road, the retaining walls and how rainwater drains. The report measures the slope at the exact spot and checks the official landslide maps and, near watercourses, the flood maps.
The village is in seismic zone 2 under the Civil Protection classification, like 84 other municipalities in the province of Cosenza, while 65 are in zone 1. The expected ground acceleration is 0.188 g. In houses with floors added over time, have an engineer check how the parts are connected and whether the work was authorised. The Revenue Agency publishes the cadastral maps and the report identifies the parcel.
Key points
- Hill village in the upper Esaro valley, north of Cosenza province.
- Seismic zone 2, expected acceleration 0.188 g.
- Population down 16.0% since 2011.
- Hillside houses: check access, retaining walls and drainage.
Overview
Sant'Agata di Esaro is a municipality in the province of Cosenza, in Calabria. At the end of 2023 it had 1,672 residents, ranked 87 of 150 municipalities in the province.
Earthquakes
For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Sant'Agata di Esaro is in seismic zone 2, a zone where strong earthquakes are possible. Most municipalities in the province (85 of 150) are in the same zone.
In the built-up area, the expected ground shaking (peak ground acceleration, PGA) is about 0.188 g, a medium-high value: the level with a 10% probability of being exceeded in 50 years, on rock.
For anyone buying in Sant'Agata di Esaro, 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 16.0%. The estimated average age is 48 years, higher than the province average (46). 28% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 24%). Foreign residents make up 0.7% of the population. On average, a household has 2.2 members.
Income and climate
In tax year 2024, taxpayers in Sant'Agata di Esaro declared an average taxable income of 15,473 euros, below the provincial average (18,237 euros). The Italian average is 24,895 euros.
Sant'Agata di Esaro is in climate zone D, with 1,560 heating degree days: heating may be switched on from 1 November to 15 April, for up to 12 hours a day. The same table puts the town hall at 461 metres above sea level.
Services
In the official Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health lists, Sant'Agata di Esaro has 4 schools and 1 pharmacy.
The data shows no grocery shops and supermarkets within the municipality, against a provincial average of 0.8 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 1.9% of the land in Sant'Agata di Esaro, compared with 4.4% in the province and 5.1% in the region. In 2024 built-up land stayed almost the same.
Radon and contaminated sites
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 one contaminated site, or site still under investigation, in Sant'Agata di Esaro. 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 Sant'Agata di Esaro: 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 Sant'Agata di Esaro 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 21 inhabited census areas in Sant'Agata di Esaro. 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
- Seismic classification of municipalities, Dipartimento della Protezione Civile. Licence CC BY 4.0, updated to 2025-05.
- MPS04 seismic hazard model, INGV. Licence CC BY 4.0, 2004 model.
- Data by census section, Istat. Licence CC BY 4.0, residents at the end of 2023, compared with the 2011 census.
- Places, Overture Maps Foundation. Licence CDLA Permissive 2.0 and others depending on provider, release 2026-10-21.0.
- Income and main IRPEF variables by municipality, MEF, Dipartimento delle Finanze. Licence CC BY 3.0 IT, tax year 2024.
- Climate zones and heating degree days of municipalities (Presidential Decree 412/1993, Annex A), Normattiva. Licence CC BY 4.0, current text.
- Land take, territorial dynamics and ecosystem services, ISPRA e SNPA. Licence CC BY 4.0, 2024 data.
- Predictive radon map by municipality, ISPRA. Licence CC BY 4.0, version 2022-11.
- Contaminated sites, ISPRA, MOSAICO - Banca dati nazionale dei siti oggetto di procedimento di bonifica. Licence CC BY 4.0, updated to 12 November 2026.
- Liveability index by census area, Vicinalia, from the data in the report sections. Licence CC BY-SA 4.0, worked out on 30 September 2026.
- List of Italian municipalities, Istat. Licence CC BY 4.0, updated to 21 February 2026.
ISTAT code 078131. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.