Municipality

Bodø

Municipality no. 1804 · Nordland - Nordlánnda · 53,638 inhabitants · KOSTRA group 11

Municipality index · based on 2025

52 of 100

Rank 6 of 10 in KOSTRA group 11. 165 of 357 nationally.

Sub-indices for the municipality against the group median
PartScore (0–100)Group medianScore as a bar
Work and business 78 53
Economy 58 49
Population and growth 0 53
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) 80.0% 2025 73.4% 76.7% table 11618
Job coverage (jobs per employed resident) (shown, not in the index) 101.7% 2025 101.3% 90.0% table 11618
Registered unemployed, share of labour force (low scores high) 1.0% 2025 1.9% 1.3% table 13563
New enterprises per 1,000 inhabitants (high scores high) 9.1 2023 9.6 9.2 table 13701
Limited company bankruptcies per 1,000 inhabitants (low scores high) 0.5 2025 0.7 0.5 table 07165

Economy

Key figureValueGroup medianNational medianTrendSource
Household income after tax, median (high scores high) NOK 689,600 2024 NOK 648,350 NOK 657,600 table 06944
Net operating result, share of operating revenue (municipal group) (high scores high) 4.1% 2025 1.8% 1.3% table 12143
Unrestricted reserves, share of operating revenue (high scores high) 9.3% 2025 9.8% 10.4% table 12143
Net debt, share of operating revenue (low scores high) 94.2% 2025 89.6% 84.9% table 12143

Population and growth

Key figureValueGroup medianNational medianTrendSource
Population on 1 January (shown, not in the index) 53,638 2026 58,284 5,447 table 11342
Population growth, last year (high scores high) −0.2% 2026 0.6% 0.3% table 06913
Net migration per 1,000 inhabitants (high scores high) −4.2 2025 5.4 4.1 table 06913 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
645
With accounts 2025
255
Turnover 2025 (NOK)
5,334 MNOK
Median operating margin 2025
2.2%

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

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

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.