All things you need to know about living in Val di Chy
Val di Chy, in the province of Torino, is home to 6 Germans: 0.49% of its 1,223 residents.
That is the 206th-highest concentration of Germans among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.
Within Piemonte it ranks 8th.
ISTAT counts 90 residents with a foreign citizenship in Val di Chy, 7.36% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Germans (6), Brazilians (3), Spaniards (3).
That is above the national average for an Italian comune, which is 7.30%.
On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Torino scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for average disposable income per capita and density and importance of museums' heritage.
It scores in the bottom quarter for PM10 Annual average concentration.
These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.
Summers average a high of 23.6°C (74°F) and winters a low of -4.1°C (25°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.
Val di Chy sees about 1 days a year above 30°C (86°F).
It gets about 1,255mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 172 days.
These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.
OMI puts residential purchase prices in Val di Chy at about €563 per square meter in the second half of 2025.
Val di Chy population over time
By nationality
| Nationality | Citizens | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Romania | 19 | 1.55% |
| Germany | 6 | 0.49% |
| Ukraine | 4 | 0.33% |
| Brazil | 3 | 0.25% |
| Spain | 3 | 0.25% |
| Poland | 3 | 0.25% |
| Austria | 2 | 0.16% |
| Argentina | 1 | 0.08% |
| Canada | 1 | 0.08% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 0.08% |
| Croatia | 1 | 0.08% |
| Hungary | 1 | 0.08% |
| Mexico | 1 | 0.08% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 0.08% |
| Norway | 1 | 0.08% |
| Sweden | 1 | 0.08% |
| United States | 1 | 0.08% |
| Albania | 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% |
| Denmark | 0 | 0.00% |
| Estonia | 0 | 0.00% |
| Finland | 0 | 0.00% |
| France | 0 | 0.00% |
| Greece | 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% |
| 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 | 1,111 | 90.84% |
| Born elsewhere in the EU | 43 | 3.52% |
| Born outside the EU | 69 | 5.64% |
Germans over time
Quality of life in Torino
Full BES profile for Torino →Torino on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →
Property prices
Buying in Val di Chy is far below the Torino average of €1,512/m². Averaged across 2 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.
16.4 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.
Seismic zone
Val di Chy 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 Civile di Ivrea, about 19.2 km / 20 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest emergency department: Ospedale Civile di Ivrea (DEA level I), about 19.2 km / 20 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest airport: Turin Airport (TRN), about 65.2 km / 48 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Bennet, about 12.5 km / 15 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Vistrorio di Farmacie Schiavon di Dott.Ssa Schiavon Alessandra e C., about 3.4 km / 4 minutes by road from the geographic center of the comune.
Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Borgofranco d'Ivrea, about 14.7 km / 18 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 Val di Chy, 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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