All things you need to know about living in Boves
Boves, in the province of Cuneo, is home to 20 French nationals: 0.21% of its 9,606 residents.
That is the 168th-highest concentration of French nationals among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Piemonte it ranks 38th.
ISTAT counts 594 residents with a foreign citizenship in Boves, 6.18% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are French nationals (20), Argentinians (13), Germans (7).
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Cuneo scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for average disposable income per capita and employment rate (20-64 years old).
It scores in the bottom quarter for overall Fixed Very High Capacity Network (VHCN) coverage and medical specialists.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 24.7°C (76°F) and winters a low of -3.2°C (26°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Boves sees about 1 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 1,290mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 158 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Boves at about €883 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
At those figures, buying costs about 22.4 years of renting the same property.
Boves population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 140 | 1.46% |
| Albania | 83 | 0.86% |
| France | 20 | 0.21% |
| Argentina | 13 | 0.14% |
| Bulgaria | 8 | 0.08% |
| Germany | 7 | 0.07% |
| Russia | 5 | 0.05% |
| Ukraine | 5 | 0.05% |
| Brazil | 4 | 0.04% |
| Poland | 4 | 0.04% |
| Spain | 3 | 0.03% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 0.02% |
| Croatia | 2 | 0.02% |
| Netherlands | 2 | 0.02% |
| Australia | 1 | 0.01% |
| Belgium | 1 | 0.01% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 0.01% |
| Greece | 1 | 0.01% |
| Slovenia | 1 | 0.01% |
| Austria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Canada | 0 | 0.00% |
| Cyprus | 0 | 0.00% |
| Czechia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Denmark | 0 | 0.00% |
| Estonia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Finland | 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% |
| Latvia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Malta | 0 | 0.00% |
| Mexico | 0 | 0.00% |
| Norway | 0 | 0.00% |
| Portugal | 0 | 0.00% |
| Sweden | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovakia | 0 | 0.00% |
| United States | 0 | 0.00% |
| Venezuela | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 8,747 | 91.06% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 260 | 2.71% |
| Born outside the EU | 599 | 6.24% |
French nationals over time
Quality of life in Cuneo
Full BES profile for Cuneo →Cuneo on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Property prices
Buying in Boves is below the Cuneo average of €1,073/m². Averaged across 6 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
22.4 years of rent here equal the purchase price, close to 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.
A detached house here averages €987/m², against €883 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 12% 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
Boves is in seismic zone 3 (the Region labels it 3S). 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.
See every comune on the map →Hospital, airport and daily-needs distance
Nearest hospital: Az. Ospedal. S. Croce e Carle, about 9 km / 10 minutes by road from Boves (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Az. Ospedal. S. Croce e Carle, Cuneo (DEA level II), about 9 km / 10 minutes by road from Boves (the main town).
Nearest airport: Cuneo International Airport (CUF), about 28.3 km / 26 minutes by road from Boves (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Presto Fresco, about 0.7 km / 1 minute by road from Boves (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Soffietti - Cavallo di Soffietti Luigi e C. Snc, about 0.2 km / 1 minute by road from Boves (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Borgo San Dalmazzo, about 7.3 km / 9 minutes by road from Boves (the main town).
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 Boves, 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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