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Santa Brigida: 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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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 Bindo 9, Santa Brigida.

Santa Brigida, a side valley of the upper Val Brembana

Going up the Val Brembana beyond its larger villages, you enter the side valleys where municipalities have only a few hundred residents. Santa Brigida is one of them, in the upper valley, with its town hall at around 800 metres and several hamlets spread among meadows and woods.

Life here is that of the Bergamo mountains: work and larger services on the valley floor or towards Bergamo, and a car is needed for almost everything. Winters are cold and long (climate zone F): for a village house, insulation, the boiler or stove, the roof and access in snow all matter. For a renovated house, ask for the certificates for the electrics and heating and the building permits for the work.

In 2023 there were 516 residents, against 597 in 2011: a drop of 13.6%. The average age is 48.7, above the provincial 45.2, and over-65s make up 26.2% (22.5% in the province). Foreign residents are 1.0%. Declared incomes are below the provincial average.

On earthquakes the province of Bergamo is uniform: all 243 of its municipalities are in seismic zone 3 on the Civil Protection department's national scale. In Santa Brigida the expected ground acceleration in the built-up area is about 0.056 g, a low value.

The report goes from the address to the land parcel using the Revenue Agency's cadastral maps and checks the official landslide and flood maps for that plot. On the slopes and near the streams, conditions can vary a great deal even between neighbouring houses.

Key points

  • Upper Val Brembana, hamlets among meadows and woods.
  • Population down 13.6% since 2011.
  • All 243 municipalities in the province in seismic zone 3.
  • Long winters: insulation, heating and access in snow.

Overview

Santa Brigida is a municipality in the province of Bergamo, in Lombardia. At the end of 2023 it had 516 residents, among the smallest in the province (219 of 243).

Earthquakes

For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Santa Brigida 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 0.056 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 resident population has fallen by 13.6%. The estimated average age is 49 years, higher than the province average (45). 26% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 24%). Foreign residents make up 1.0% of the population. On average, a household has 2.0 members.

Income and climate

In tax year 2024, taxpayers in Santa Brigida declared an average taxable income of 20,639 euros, below the provincial average (26,939 euros). The Italian average is 24,895 euros.

Santa Brigida is in climate zone F, with 3,213 heating degree days, with no limits on when heating may be used. The same table puts the town hall at 805 metres above sea level.

Services

In the official Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health lists, Santa Brigida has 2 schools.

The data shows no pharmacies within the municipality, against a provincial average of 0.3 per 1,000 residents.

Public transport

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

How built-up it is

Buildings, roads, car parks and other sealed surfaces cover 2.1% of the land in Santa Brigida, 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

Santa Brigida is not among the radon priority areas designated by the Regione Lombardia in 2023. 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 no contaminated sites in Santa Brigida.

Landslides and flooding

Landslide and flood hazard changes from one street to the next even within Santa Brigida: 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 Santa Brigida 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 10 inhabited census areas in Santa Brigida. Half of the residents live in areas scoring 65 or more.

Residents by band

  • fair 31.9%
  • good 68.1%

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 016191. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.