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Valdisotto: what to know before buying a home

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

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For example: Via Roma Cepina 1, Valdisotto.

Valdisotto, hamlets along the Adda below Bormio

Driving down from Bormio on the Stelvio road you pass through Valdisotto, the municipality covering the stretch of upper Valtellina just below the Bormio basin. It is a set of hamlets spread between the Adda valley floor and the slopes, such as Cepina, Santa Lucia, Piatta and, higher up, Oga. The town hall is above a thousand metres and the climate zone is F, with long cold winters.

Buyers here often want to be near Bormio and its ski lifts without living in the town itself. The market mixes residents' homes, holiday flats and old stone-and-timber houses in the upper hamlets. For those, winter access, snow clearing and heating costs matter. Overture Maps data record 5 school sites, 1.40 per 1,000 residents against 1.19 in the province, and 4 supermarkets.

The population is stable and younger than the Valtellina average. Istat, the national statistics office, counted 3,565 residents in 2023, 0.9% more than in 2011; the average age is 44.3 against 46.8, and over-65s make up 20.8%, against 25.3% in the province of Sondrio. Foreign residents account for 3.3%.

Valdisotto is in seismic zone 3 on the Civil Protection Department scale (the national emergency agency), like 63 other municipalities in the province, with an expected acceleration of about 0.101 g. The more pressing issue in this valley is the mountain itself: steep slopes, fast-flowing streams, debris flows and avalanches.

That is why the report checks the official landslide and flood maps for the address, and here they vary a great deal from one hamlet to the next. The Revenue Agency (Agenzia delle Entrate) publishes the cadastral maps, and the plot is found from the address.

Key points

  • Upper Valtellina hamlets along the Adda, just below Bormio.
  • 3,565 residents in 2023, 0.9% more than in 2011.
  • Seismic zone 3, expected acceleration about 0.101 g.
  • Landslides and avalanches: official maps read per address.

Overview

Valdisotto is a municipality in the province of Sondrio, in Lombardia. At the end of 2023 it had 3,565 residents, ranked 15 of 77 municipalities in the province.

Earthquakes

For Italy's Civil Protection Department, Valdisotto is in seismic zone 3, a zone where strong earthquakes are possible but rare. Most municipalities in the province (64 of 77) are in the same zone.

In the built-up area, the expected ground shaking (peak ground acceleration, PGA) is about 0.101 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 44 years, lower than the province average (47). 21% of residents are over 65 (the regional figure is 24%). Foreign residents make up 3.3% of the population. On average, a household has 2.4 members.

Income and climate

In tax year 2024, taxpayers in Valdisotto declared an average taxable income of 22,809 euros, in line with the province (23,822 euros). The Italian average is 24,895 euros.

Valdisotto is in climate zone F, with 3,690 heating degree days, with no limits on when heating may be used. The same table puts the town hall at 1,141 metres above sea level.

Services

In the official Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health lists, Valdisotto has 5 schools and 1 pharmacy. The Overture Maps data also lists 4 grocery shops and supermarkets, 1 healthcare facility and 3 sports facilities.

There are 0.3 healthcare facilities per 1,000 residents, fewer than the province average (0.5).

Public transport

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

How built-up it is

Buildings, roads, car parks and other sealed surfaces cover 2.5% of the land in Valdisotto, compared with 2.7% in the province and 12.2% in the region. In 2024 built-up land grew by 1.4 hectares.

Radon and contaminated sites

Valdisotto is one of the municipalities designated as a radon priority area 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 2 contaminated sites, or sites still under investigation, in Valdisotto, and one more has 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 Valdisotto: 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 Valdisotto 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 35 inhabited census areas in Valdisotto. Half of the residents live in areas scoring 60 or more.

Residents by band

  • modest 0.1%
  • fair 99.3%
  • good 0.7%

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 014072. The text on this page is generated automatically from the data.