Municipality

Bamble

Municipality no. 4012 · Telemark · 14,267 inhabitants · KOSTRA group 7

Municipality index · based on 2025

32 of 100

Rank 34 of 38 in KOSTRA group 7. 323 of 357 nationally.

Sub-indices for the municipality against the group median
Part	Score (0–100)	Group median	Score as a bar
Work and business	27	49
Economy	43	48
Population and growth	24	51
Public contracts	–	–	Comes when Doffin is connected (weight 0)

The score is the percentile rank in the group: 50 means middle of the pack among municipalities like it. The index does not measure the quality of services.

Key figures from Statistics Norway

Work and business

Key figure	Value	Group median	National median	Source
Employed, share of age 20–66 (high scores high)	74.0% 2025	76.9%	76.7%	table 11618 figures from an earlier municipality number
Job coverage (jobs per employed resident) (shown, not in the index)	74.4% 2025	82.4%	90.0%	table 11618 figures from an earlier municipality number
Registered unemployed, share of labour force (low scores high)	2.0% 2025	1.6%	1.3%	table 13563 figures from an earlier municipality number
New enterprises per 1,000 inhabitants (high scores high)	10.2 2023	9.2	9.2	table 13701 figures from an earlier municipality number
Limited company bankruptcies per 1,000 inhabitants (low scores high)	0.8 2025	0.5	0.5	table 07165 figures from an earlier municipality number

Economy

Key figure	Value	Group median	National median	Source
Household income after tax, median (high scores high)	NOK 711,400 2024	NOK 706,900	NOK 657,600	table 06944 figures from an earlier municipality number
Net operating result, share of operating revenue (municipal group) (high scores high)	−0.8% 2025	1.9%	1.3%	table 12143 figures from an earlier municipality number
Unrestricted reserves, share of operating revenue (high scores high)	7.8% 2025	7.3%	10.4%	table 12143 figures from an earlier municipality number
Net debt, share of operating revenue (low scores high)	100.1% 2025	95.2%	84.9%	table 12143 figures from an earlier municipality number

Population and growth

Key figure	Value	Group median	National median	Source
Population on 1 January (shown, not in the index)	14,267 2026	15,198	5,447	table 11342 figures from an earlier municipality number
Population growth, last year (high scores high)	−0.3% 2026	0.5%	0.3%	table 06913 figures from an earlier municipality number
Net migration per 1,000 inhabitants (high scores high)	0.4 2025	4.4	4.1	table 06913 figures from an earlier municipality number some years withheld by SSB

Each key figure is for the year shown beside it. Municipalities that merged or were renumbered get the figures from the old number where Statistics Norway has not recalculated them.

Companies registered in the municipality

Limited companies we follow: 213
With accounts 2025: 75
Turnover 2025 (NOK): 774 MNOK
Median operating margin 2025: 2.7%

Only limited companies in the sectors we follow, by business address. The head office can be elsewhere than the activity. Companies reporting in another currency than NOK are left out of turnover.

Largest companies in the municipality

EGELL-JOHNSEN MAT AS 101 MNOK (2025)
BROTORVET MAT AS 98 MNOK (2025)
TELEMARK SEAWORX AS 76 MNOK (2025)
THOR R NILSEN AS 72 MNOK (2025)
TELEMARK BILUTSALG AS 54 MNOK (2025)
FRIER BYGGSERVICE AS 43 MNOK (2025)
BUTIKKDRIFT LANGESUND AS 32 MNOK (2025)
KL ELEKTRO AS 21 MNOK (2025)
BREVIK ELEKTRO AS 20 MNOK (2025)
A-TECH AS 18 MNOK (2025)
SPIRO SERVICE AS 18 MNOK (2025)
INTERSPORT BROTORVET AS 17 MNOK (2025)
EL SERVICE GRENLAND AS 17 MNOK (2025)
LANGESUND SJØMAT AS 16 MNOK (2025)
SEGATECH AS 15 MNOK (2025)

213 limited companies in the sectors we follow have their business address here.

Earlier municipalities

Bamble (3813) · renumbered 2024

Indications based on open data. Not advice. Methodology

Source: Statistics Norway (SSB), table 06913, table 06944, table 07165, table 11342, table 11618, table 12143, table 13563, table 13701, municipality map and KOSTRA groups from Klass. CC BY 4.0.