Municipality

Gildeskål

Municipality no. 1838 · Nordland - Nordlánnda · 2,024 inhabitants · KOSTRA group 15

Municipality index · based on 2025

49 of 100

Rank 21 of 36 in KOSTRA group 15. 191 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	30	48
Economy	49	43
Population and growth	80	48
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)	73.0% 2025	73.5%	76.7%	table 11618
Job coverage (jobs per employed resident) (shown, not in the index)	102.4% 2025	90.6%	90.0%	table 11618
Registered unemployed, share of labour force (low scores high)	2.1% 2025	1.5%	1.3%	table 13563
New enterprises per 1,000 inhabitants (high scores high)	7.8 2023	7.8	9.2	table 13701
Limited company bankruptcies per 1,000 inhabitants (low scores high)	2.0 2025	0.0	0.5	table 07165

Economy

Key figure	Value	Group median	National median	Source
Household income after tax, median (high scores high)	NOK 617,000 2024	NOK 606,500	NOK 657,600	table 06944
Net operating result, share of operating revenue (municipal group) (high scores high)	−2.2% 2025	0.8%	1.3%	table 12143
Unrestricted reserves, share of operating revenue (high scores high)	19.6% 2025	13.7%	10.4%	table 12143
Net debt, share of operating revenue (low scores high)	79.3% 2025	76.8%	84.9%	table 12143

Population and growth

Key figure	Value	Group median	National median	Source
Population on 1 January (shown, not in the index)	2,024 2026	1,132	5,447	table 11342
Population growth, last year (high scores high)	1.0% 2026	−0.3%	0.3%	table 06913
Net migration per 1,000 inhabitants (high scores high)	11.5 2025	4.9	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: 55
With accounts 2025: 28
Turnover 2025 (NOK): 416 MNOK
Median operating margin 2025: 5.0%

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

SALTEN N950 AS 244 MNOK (2025)
ENKON AS 48 MNOK (2025)
GJELSETH MASKIN AS 22 MNOK (2025)
STRANDA MASKIN AS 18 MNOK (2025)
HARALD OLAUSSEN AS 18 MNOK (2025)
KB BYGG AS 15 MNOK (2025)
GILDESKÅL GRAVING OG TRANSPORT AS 14 MNOK (2025)
VÅGSOSEN HANDEL AS 14 MNOK (2025)
OMRÅDESIKRING AS 13 MNOK (2023)
SOL HANDEL AS 6 MNOK (2025)
GILDESJØ AS 3 MNOK (2025)
HÅVIK ELEKTRO AS 3 MNOK (2025)
FUGLOEYBUEN AS 2 MNOK (2025)
ISELIN AS 2 MNOK (2025)
SOLIDBYGG & RENOVERING AS 2 MNOK (2025)

55 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.