All things you need to know about living in Cellio con Breia
Cellio con Breia, in the province of Vercelli, is home to 3 Germans: 0.32% of its 934 residents.
ISTAT counts 44 residents with a foreign citizenship in Cellio con Breia, 4.71% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Germans (3), Belgians (1), Spaniards (1).
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Vercelli scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for nonprofit organizations.
It scores in the bottom quarter for road mortality in non-urban roads and life expectancy at birth.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 23.5°C (74°F) and winters a low of -3.8°C (25°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Cellio con Breia sees about 0 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 2,502mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 200 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Cellio con Breia at about €678 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
At those figures, buying costs about 19.8 years of renting the same property.
That is below most Italian comuni.
Between 2019 and 2025, the number of Germans in Cellio con Breia rose from 2 to 3.
Cellio con Breia population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Ukraine | 11 | 1.18% |
| Romania | 5 | 0.54% |
| Bulgaria | 4 | 0.43% |
| Germany | 3 | 0.32% |
| Albania | 2 | 0.21% |
| Belgium | 1 | 0.11% |
| Spain | 1 | 0.11% |
| United States | 1 | 0.11% |
| Argentina | 0 | 0.00% |
| Austria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Brazil | 0 | 0.00% |
| Canada | 0 | 0.00% |
| Switzerland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Cyprus | 0 | 0.00% |
| Czechia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Denmark | 0 | 0.00% |
| Estonia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Finland | 0 | 0.00% |
| France | 0 | 0.00% |
| United Kingdom | 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% |
| Latvia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Malta | 0 | 0.00% |
| Mexico | 0 | 0.00% |
| Netherlands | 0 | 0.00% |
| Norway | 0 | 0.00% |
| Poland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Portugal | 0 | 0.00% |
| Russia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Sweden | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovenia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovakia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Venezuela | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 869 | 93.04% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 23 | 2.46% |
| Born outside the EU | 42 | 4.50% |
Germans over time
Quality of life in Vercelli
Full BES profile for Vercelli →Vercelli on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Property prices
Buying in Cellio con Breia is below the Vercelli average of €759/m². Averaged across 2 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
19.8 years of rent here equal the purchase price — below 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 €788/m², against €678 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 16% 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
Cellio con Breia is in seismic zone 4. Of the four zones, zone 1 is the highest hazard and zone 4 the lowest. The Department of Civil Protection describes zone 4 as the lowest-hazard zone, where a strong earthquake is very unlikely.
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: Ospedale SS.Pietro e Paolo, about 11.7 km / 15 minutes by road from Cellio (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Ospedale SS.Pietro e Paolo, Borgosesia (Pronto Soccorso), about 11.7 km / 15 minutes by road from Cellio (the main town).
Nearest DEA (level I or II): Istituto SS. Trinità - Borgomanero (DEA level I), about 24.7 km / 28 minutes by road from Cellio (the main town).
Nearest airport: Milan Malpensa International Airport (MXP), about 67.6 km / 60 minutes by road from Cellio (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Conad, about 9 km / 11 minutes by road from Cellio (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Martelli Piergiorgio & C. Sas, about 10 km / 13 minutes by road from Cellio (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Borgosesia, about 9.9 km / 13 minutes by road from Cellio (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 Cellio con Breia, 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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