All things you need to know about living in Rassa
Rassa, in the province of Vercelli (Piemonte), records no residents from any of the nationalities we track, in the latest ISTAT data. Its population is 68.
ISTAT counts 1 residents with a foreign citizenship in Rassa, 1.47% of the population.
That puts Rassa in the bottom ten percent of Italian comuni for foreign residents. Anyone moving here should expect to be unusual.
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 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 18.4°C (65°F) and winters a low of -9.8°C (14°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Rassa sees about 0 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 1,956mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 221 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Rassa at about €1,350 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
At those figures, buying costs about 20.3 years of renting the same property.
Rassa population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 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% |
| Poland | 0 | 0.00% |
| Portugal | 0 | 0.00% |
| Romania | 0 | 0.00% |
| Russia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Sweden | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovenia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Slovakia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Ukraine | 0 | 0.00% |
| United States | 0 | 0.00% |
| Venezuela | 0 | 0.00% |
Country of birth
| Group | Residents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Born in Italy | 63 | 92.65% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 1 | 1.47% |
| Born outside the EU | 4 | 5.88% |
Argentinians 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 Rassa is well above the Vercelli average of €759/m². Based on a single OMI micro-zone, so it describes the town as one market.
20.3 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 €1,450/m², against €1,350 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
Rassa 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.
See every comune on the map →Hospital, airport and daily-needs distance
Nearest hospital: Ospedale SS.Pietro e Paolo, about 38.3 km / 36 minutes by road from Rassa (the main town).
Nearest emergency department: Ospedale SS.Pietro e Paolo, Borgosesia (Pronto Soccorso), about 38.3 km / 36 minutes by road from Rassa (the main town).
Nearest DEA (level I or II): Istituto SS. Trinità - Borgomanero (DEA level I), about 63 km / 59 minutes by road from Rassa (the main town).
Nearest airport: Milan Malpensa International Airport (MXP), about 100.3 km / 86 minutes by road from Rassa (the main town).
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Alimentari Bendotti Cristina, about 17.8 km / 19 minutes by road from Rassa (the main town).
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Alpifarma S.a.S. di Gabbio Massimo e C., about 15.9 km / 16 minutes by road from Rassa (the main town).
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Varallo Sesia, about 26.4 km / 26 minutes by road from Rassa (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 Rassa, 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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