€1,388per m² to buy, residentialOMI · 2025H2 · comune

1,918residents at the last countISTAT · comune

4.69%hold a foreign citizenshipISTAT · citizenship

3.65%hold one of the 41 citizenships we trackISTAT · citizenship

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All things you need to know about living in Varzo

Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Piemonte · Population 1,918 · Median age 51 · Indice di vecchiaia 276.4 (2019)

Data as of 2026-10-13· ISTAT

The well-being figures below are for the province, not the town. The rest of this page is comune-level.

Nationality

Varzo, in the province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, is home to 9 Swiss nationals: 0.47% of its 1,918 residents.

That is the 30th-highest concentration of Swiss nationals among the 5,872 Italian comuni with at least 1,000 residents.

Within Piemonte it ranks 4th.

ISTAT counts 90 residents with a foreign citizenship in Varzo, 4.69% of the population. The largest groups among the nationalities we follow most closely are Swiss nationals (9), Brazilians (2), Germans (2).

On ISTAT's well-being measures, the province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola scores in the top quarter of Italian provinces for PM10 Annual average concentration and electricity from renewable sources.

It scores in the bottom quarter for overall Fixed Very High Capacity Network (VHCN) coverage and people with at least upper secondary education level (25-64 years old).

These figures describe the province, not the town. A comune can sit some way from its province's average.

Summers average a high of 18.9°C (66°F) and winters a low of -11.4°C (11°F), measured over 2015 to 2024.

Varzo sees about 0 days a year above 30°C (86°F).

It gets about 1,969mm of rain a year, spread across roughly 198 days.

These come from ERA5-Land reanalysis at the comune itself, not from the nearest weather station.

OMI puts residential purchase prices in Varzo at about €1,388 per square meter in the second half of 2025.

At those figures, buying costs about 25.1 years of renting the same property.

Varzo population over time

2002–2025. ISTAT’s intercensal population reconstruction (2002–2018) and resident-population registry (2019 onward).

By nationality

Nationality	Citizens	Share
Romania	26	1.36%
Ukraine	20	1.04%
Switzerland	9	0.47%
Albania	2	0.10%
Bulgaria	2	0.10%
Brazil	2	0.10%
Germany	2	0.10%
France	2	0.10%
Argentina	1	0.05%
Greece	1	0.05%
Ireland	1	0.05%
Netherlands	1	0.05%
Portugal	1	0.05%
Austria	0	0.00%
Australia	0	0.00%
Belgium	0	0.00%
Canada	0	0.00%
Cyprus	0	0.00%
Czechia	0	0.00%
Denmark	0	0.00%
Estonia	0	0.00%
Spain	0	0.00%
Finland	0	0.00%
United Kingdom	0	0.00%
Croatia	0	0.00%
Hungary	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%
Poland	0	0.00%
Russia	0	0.00%
Sweden	0	0.00%
Slovenia	0	0.00%
Slovakia	0	0.00%
United States	0	0.00%
Venezuela	0	0.00%

“Citizens” counts residents holding that country’s citizenship, from ISTAT’s population registry.

Country of birth

Group	Residents	Share
Born in Italy	1,768	92.18%
Born elsewhere in the EU	38	1.98%
Born outside the EU	112	5.84%

From ISTAT’s census data. Broad groups only — ISTAT does not publish comune-level population by specific country of birth, so this isn’t comparable per-nationality to the citizenship table above. See about the data.

Swiss nationals over time

Quality of life in Verbano-Cusio-Ossola

Province-level well-being (BES), by domain — percentile rank against Italy’s other provinces. Higher is always better here, regardless of the underlying indicator’s direction.

Social relationships95

Environment95

Landscape and cultural heritage83

Work and life balance79

Safety64

Economic well-being46

Health40

Quality of services28

Education and training25

Full BES profile for Verbano-Cusio-Ossola →Verbano-Cusio-Ossola on cost vs quality of life (province-level) →

Property prices

To buy

€1,388 /m²

To rent

€4.60 /m²/month

About the Verbano-Cusio-Ossola average of €1,396/m². Averaged across 2 OMI micro-zones, which can differ substantially within the same town.

Buy or rent

25.1 years of rent here equal the purchase price — above 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.

House or apartment

A detached house here averages €1,488/m², against €1,388 for an apartment.

Compared street for street — houses and flats priced in the same neighborhood — a house costs 8% 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.

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Agenzia delle Entrate — Osservatorio del Mercato Immobiliare (OMI), semester 2025 H2. Figures are midpoints of OMI’s surveyed ranges for “Abitazioni civili” in normal condition — a guide to the market, not a valuation of any particular property. OMI is Agenzia delle Entrate’s official range of market values per m², built from recorded sales and appraisals. Asking prices on listing sites are what sellers hope for, and usually run higher. Source.

Seismic zone

Varzo 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.

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Fonte: Dipartimento della Protezione Civile-Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri, classification updated to 31 May 2025 (CC BY 4.0). Source table. Each Region classifies its own comuni by its own act, so a Region’s change shows up here only after the Department updates its table.

Hospital, airport and daily-needs distance

Nearest hospital: Ospedale San Biagio, about 14.2 km / 14 minutes by road from Varzo (the main town).

The nearest hospital with inpatient beds in the Ministero della Salute's 2023 list. A hospital with beds is not necessarily one with an emergency department. Ministero della Salute (2023); positions and roads © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). See every comune on the map

Nearest emergency department: Ospedale San Biagio, Domodossola (DEA level I), about 14.2 km / 14 minutes by road from Varzo (the main town).

The nearest hospital the Ministero della Salute lists in its emergency network (31 December 2025) as DEA level I or II or Pronto Soccorso. A Pronto Soccorso is not the same as a DEA: a DEA is a larger emergency department with more specialties on site. It is not a service guarantee; confirm with the local health authority. Ministero della Salute (emergency network, 2025); positions and roads © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). See every comune on the map

That hospital is a DEA level I, so it is also the nearest DEA (level I or II). See the nearest DEA for every comune

Nearest airport: Milan Malpensa International Airport (MXP), about 103.2 km / 71 minutes by road from Varzo (the main town).

The nearest of the airports where ENAC recorded at least 4,000 passengers in 2025; this leaves out two airports that carried almost none (Taranto-Grottaglie, Brescia-Montichiari). It says nothing about flights or routes. ENAC (2025); OurAirports; roads © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). See every comune on the map

Nearest supermarket (OpenStreetMap): Alimentari, about 0.6 km / 1 minute by road from Varzo (the main town).

The nearest supermarket as OpenStreetMap volunteers have mapped it. There is no official national list, so a store missing from the map is missing here. Small grocers and corner shops are not counted, so a village with a local alimentari but no supermarket shows a longer time than its real food shopping. © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). See every comune on the map

Nearest pharmacy: Farmacia Folghera, about 0.8 km / 1 minute by road from Varzo (the main town).

The nearest pharmacy in the Ministero della Salute's open register (ordinary and branch pharmacies; dispensari with limited hours are left out). It says nothing about opening hours or night and Sunday duty. Ministero della Salute (open register of pharmacies, IODL 2.0); roads © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). See every comune on the map

Nearest railway station (OpenStreetMap): Varzo, about 0.8 km / 1 minute by road from Varzo (the main town).

The nearest railway station with passenger service as OpenStreetMap volunteers have mapped it (metro, tram, funicular and heritage lines are left out). RFI publishes no national open list. It does not say how often trains stop there or where they go. © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). See every comune on the map

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 Varzo, 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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