Municipality

Båtsfjord

Municipality no. 5632 · Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku · 2,104 inhabitants · KOSTRA group 6

Municipality index · based on 2025

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Rank 28 of 28 in KOSTRA group 6. 342 of 357 nationally.

Sub-indices for the municipality against the group median
PartScore (0–100)Group medianScore as a bar
Work and business 24 53
Economy 15 52
Population and growth 46 46
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 figureValueGroup medianNational medianTrendSource
Employed, share of age 20–66 (high scores high) 73.0% 2025 77.5% 76.7% table 11618 figures from an earlier municipality number
Job coverage (jobs per employed resident) (shown, not in the index) 97.6% 2025 96.5% 90.0% table 11618 figures from an earlier municipality number
Registered unemployed, share of labour force (low scores high) 2.4% 2025 1.1% 1.3% table 13563 figures from an earlier municipality number
New enterprises per 1,000 inhabitants (high scores high) 7.6 2023 9.2 9.2 table 13701 figures from an earlier municipality number
Limited company bankruptcies per 1,000 inhabitants (low scores high) 0.5 2025 0.4 0.5 table 07165 figures from an earlier municipality number

Economy

Key figureValueGroup medianNational medianTrendSource
Household income after tax, median (high scores high) NOK 592,700 2024 NOK 639,800 NOK 657,600 table 06944 figures from an earlier municipality number
Net operating result, share of operating revenue (municipal group) (high scores high) −0.7% 2025 −0.7% 1.3% table 12143 figures from an earlier municipality number
Unrestricted reserves, share of operating revenue (high scores high) 0.2% 2025 11.6% 10.4% table 12143 figures from an earlier municipality number
Net debt, share of operating revenue (low scores high) 208.7% 2025 84.2% 84.9% table 12143 figures from an earlier municipality number

Population and growth

Key figureValueGroup medianNational medianTrendSource
Population on 1 January (shown, not in the index) 2,104 2026 2,804 5,447 table 11342 figures from an earlier municipality number
Population growth, last year (high scores high) −0.1% 2026 0.0% 0.3% table 06913 figures from an earlier municipality number
Net migration per 1,000 inhabitants (high scores high) 1.4 2025 2.2 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
91
With accounts 2025
34
Turnover 2025 (NOK)
241 MNOK
Median operating margin 2025
7.0%

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

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

Earlier municipalities

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.