All things you need to know about living in Grondona
Grondona, in the province of Alessandria, is home to 1 Russians: 0.21% of its 467 residents.
ISTAT counts 19 residents with a foreign citizenship in Grondona, 4.07% of the population. Among the nationalities we follow most closely, the two groups are Russians (1) and Americans (1).
These are small numbers, so we would not read much into the percentage or any change in it.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Alessandria scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for road mortality in non-urban roads.
It scores in the bottom quarter for burglaries reported 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 27.1°C (81°F) and winters a low of 0.1°C (32°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Grondona sees about 10 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 1,118mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 130 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Grondona at about €589 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
At those figures, buying costs about 24.5 years of renting the same property.
That is below most Italian comuni.
Grondona population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 13 | 2.78% |
| Poland | 1 | 0.21% |
| Russia | 1 | 0.21% |
| United States | 1 | 0.21% |
| Albania | 0 | 0.00% |
| Argentina | 0 | 0.00% |
| Austria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Australia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Belgium | 0 | 0.00% |
| Bulgaria | 0 | 0.00% |
| Brazil | 0 | 0.00% |
| Canada | 0 | 0.00% |
| Switzerland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Cyprus | 0 | 0.00% |
| Czechia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Germany | 0 | 0.00% |
| Denmark | 0 | 0.00% |
| Estonia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Spain | 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% |
| Portugal | 0 | 0.00% |
| Sweden | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovenia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovakia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Ukraine | 0 | 0.00% |
| Venezuela | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 440 | 94.22% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 11 | 2.36% |
| Born outside the EU | 16 | 3.43% |
Russians over time
Quality of life in Alessandria
Full BES profile for Alessandria →Alessandria on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Property prices
Buying in Grondona is below the Alessandria average of €639/m². Averaged across 2 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
24.5 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 €670/m², against €589 for an apartment.
Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 6% 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
Grondona 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: Ospedale San Giacomo Novi, about 19.2 km / 22 minutes by road from Grondona (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Ospedale San Giacomo Novi, Novi Ligure (DEA level I), about 19.2 km / 22 minutes by road from Grondona (the main town).
Nearest airport: Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA), about 53.6 km / 47 minutes by road from Grondona (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Supermercato Ekom, about 8.1 km / 9 minutes by road from Grondona (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Giacoboni di Ghiglione Alberto e Rampini Simona Snc, about 7.6 km / 9 minutes by road from Grondona (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Arquata Scrivia, about 7.8 km / 9 minutes by road from Grondona (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 Grondona, 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.
Nearby comuni
- Roccaforte Ligure
- Borghetto di Borbera
- Vignole Borbera
- Isola del Cantone
- Arquata Scrivia
- Rocchetta Ligure
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