Sorrento: what to know before buying a home

Overview

Sorrento is a municipality in the province of Napoli, in Campania. At the end of 2023 it had 15,302 residents, ranked 50 of 92 municipalities in the province.

Earthquakes

For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Sorrento is in seismic zone 3, a zone where strong earthquakes are possible but rare. Only 16 of 92 municipalities in the province are in zone 3.

In the built-up area, the expected ground shaking (peak ground acceleration, PGA) is about 0.097 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.

• Seismic zones 1, 2, 3 and 4: what they mean for buyers
• What is PGA

Landslides and flooding

Landslide and flood risk changes from one street to the next, even within the same municipality: for this reason we do not summarise it as a single figure for the whole of Sorrento.

The report checks the exact address against the ISPRA national maps and tells you in plain words whether the building falls within an at-risk area. The official map is also available on IdroGEO.

• Flood-prone areas P1, P2 and P3: what they mean
• ISPRA IdroGEO

House prices

We do not publish price tables by municipality. The report gives the minimum and maximum price per square metre for the address's zone, from the Revenue Agency's OMI valuations, with the reference half-year. It is a range for the zone, not the value of a specific home.

• How we read local prices

Population

Compared with the 2011 census, the resident population has fallen by 7.6%. The estimated average age is 47 years, higher than the province average (43). 25% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 21%). Foreign residents make up 4.2% of the population. On average, a household has 2.4 members.

• Census section

Services

In the official Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health lists, Sorrento has 17 schools and 4 pharmacies. The Overture Maps data also lists 23 grocery shops and supermarkets, 11 healthcare facilities, 20 sports facilities and 11 parks and green areas.

There are 1.5 grocery shops and supermarkets per 1,000 residents, more than the province average (0.5).

This data is gathered from several providers: services may be missing or closed businesses may still appear. The report counts services within 500 metres and 1 kilometre of the address.

• Where the services data comes from

Public transport

We do not yet have open public transport timetables for this municipality: the report says so explicitly, without inventing distances.

• Which timetables we use

Land registry

The Revenue Agency publishes the cadastral maps for Sorrento: the report finds the building's parcel, that is its sheet and parcel number, starting from the address.

• Sheet and parcel

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 2026-08-19.0.
• List of Italian municipalities, Istat. Licence CC BY 4.0, updated to 21 February 2026.

ISTAT code 063080. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.