All things you need to know about living in Ayas
Ayas, in the province of Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste, is home to 8 Britons: 0.59% of its 1,358 residents.
That is the 70th-highest concentration of Britons among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste it ranks 1st.
ISTAT counts 72 residents with a foreign citizenship in Ayas, 5.30% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Britons (8), Swedes (7), Germans (2).
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for nonprofit organizations and electricity from renewable sources.
It scores in the bottom quarter for intentional homicide rate and overall Fixed Very High Capacity Network (VHCN) coverage.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 15.4°C (60°F) and winters a low of -13.3°C (8°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Ayas sees about 0 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 1,608mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 198 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Ayas at about €3,145 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
At those figures, buying costs about 35 years of renting the same property.
Ayas population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 18 | 1.33% |
| United Kingdom | 8 | 0.59% |
| Sweden | 7 | 0.52% |
| Germany | 2 | 0.15% |
| Denmark | 2 | 0.15% |
| France | 2 | 0.15% |
| Argentina | 1 | 0.07% |
| Brazil | 1 | 0.07% |
| Canada | 1 | 0.07% |
| Spain | 1 | 0.07% |
| Latvia | 1 | 0.07% |
| Poland | 1 | 0.07% |
| Ukraine | 1 | 0.07% |
| United States | 1 | 0.07% |
| Albania | 0 | 0.00% |
| Austria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Belgium | 0 | 0.00% |
| Bulgaria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Switzerland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Cyprus | 0 | 0.00% |
| Czechia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Estonia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Finland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Greece | 0 | 0.00% |
| Croatia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Hungary | 0 | 0.00% |
| Ireland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Japan | 0 | 0.00% |
| South Korea | 0 | 0.00% |
| Lithuania | 0 | 0.00% |
| Luxembourg | 0 | 0.00% |
| Malta | 0 | 0.00% |
| Mexico | 0 | 0.00% |
| Netherlands | 0 | 0.00% |
| Norway | 0 | 0.00% |
| Portugal | 0 | 0.00% |
| Russia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovenia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovakia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Venezuela | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 1,238 | 91.16% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 50 | 3.68% |
| Born outside the EU | 70 | 5.15% |
Britons over time
Quality of life in Aosta
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Property prices
Buying in Ayas is well above the Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste average of €1,740/m². Averaged across 5 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
35 years of rent here equal the purchase price — well above the national median of 22.2 years.
A ratio between two OMI prices, not a return on investment. It leaves out purchase taxes, IMU, maintenance, financing and the months a place sits empty — all of which push the real figure up. Useful for the question it does answer: whether this town looks expensive to buy relative to what renting in it costs.
Housing here in excellent condition costs 31% more than ordinary condition — €4,117/m² against €3,145.
That gap is what the market charges for a place you don’t have to work on. It is not what the work would cost you — OMI prices property, not builders.
A detached house here averages €3,444/m², against €3,145 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 7% more per square meter.
OMI prices “Ville e Villini” separately from the apartments every other figure on this page describes. Nationally a house costs about 14% more per square meter, but in 450 comuni it costs less — worth checking rather than assuming.
Seismic zone
Ayas is in seismic zone 3. Of the four zones, zone 1 is the highest hazard and zone 4 the lowest. The Department of Civil Protection describes zone 3 as a zone where strong earthquakes are less likely than in zones 1 and 2.
This is the legal classification the Region gave the comune, used for planning and for control of building works. It is not a forecast, and it says nothing about the building you are looking at: since the 2018 building code the design load of a new building comes from site-specific hazard, not from the zone. Have any specific property checked by a qualified engineer.
Not to be confused with the “seismic” routes of the 7% pensioner regime. Those turn on whether the comune was in the 2009 L’Aquila or 2016–17 central-Italy earthquake areas, not on its zone, and being in zone 1 does not make anyone eligible for that regime, or for any tax treatment.
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Nearest hospital: Casa di Cura Clinica Eporediese, about 60.5 km / 55 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest emergency department: Ospedale Civile di Ivrea (DEA level I), about 67.1 km / 55 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest airport: Turin Airport (TRN), about 111.8 km / 80 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Crai, about 4.1 km / 4 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia San Giuseppe, about 14.5 km / 15 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Verrès, about 31.9 km / 33 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Measured by road from the main town of the comune (its OpenStreetMap place point; the geographic center for the few comuni with none), at free-flow speeds with no traffic. It is approximate. For Ayas, a trip from your own address can take longer or shorter. Drive the route before you rely on it, and ask the local health authority which hospital serves the town. Shops, pharmacies and stations are the nearest to the main town, not to your address.
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