Municipality

Hamar

Municipality no. 3403 · Innlandet · 33,817 inhabitants · KOSTRA group 10

Municipality index · based on 2025

65 of 100

Rank 3 of 13 in KOSTRA group 10. 51 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	46	52
Economy	77	54
Population and growth	79	42
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)	75.8% 2025	75.8%	76.7%	table 11618
Job coverage (jobs per employed resident) (shown, not in the index)	127.2% 2025	93.3%	90.0%	table 11618
Registered unemployed, share of labour force (low scores high)	1.7% 2025	1.9%	1.3%	table 13563
New enterprises per 1,000 inhabitants (high scores high)	9.9 2023	9.9	9.2	table 13701 figures from an earlier municipality number
Limited company bankruptcies per 1,000 inhabitants (low scores high)	0.9 2025	0.6	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 639,200 2024	NOK 658,800	NOK 657,600	table 06944 figures from an earlier municipality number
Net operating result, share of operating revenue (municipal group) (high scores high)	5.7% 2025	2.1%	1.3%	table 12143
Unrestricted reserves, share of operating revenue (high scores high)	20.0% 2025	11.1%	10.4%	table 12143
Net debt, share of operating revenue (low scores high)	84.2% 2025	90.4%	84.9%	table 12143

Population and growth

Key figure	Value	Group median	National median	Source
Population on 1 January (shown, not in the index)	33,817 2026	37,435	5,447	table 11342
Population growth, last year (high scores high)	1.1% 2026	0.6%	0.3%	table 06913
Net migration per 1,000 inhabitants (high scores high)	12.6 2025	7.0	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: 419
With accounts 2025: 187
Turnover 2025 (NOK): 3,934 MNOK
Median operating margin 2025: 4.1%

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

LAJE AS 652 MNOK (2025)
ENGENS OLJESENTER AS 486 MNOK (2025)
TOYOTA SULLAND HAMAR AS 329 MNOK (2025)
EDELT METALL AS 288 MNOK (2025)
TECHNOTEAM PROSJEKT AS 205 MNOK (2025)
Ø. MADSBERG AS 111 MNOK (2025)
MOTOR FORUM AS 103 MNOK (2025)
TOP RECYCLING AS 102 MNOK (2025)
AMUND PETTERSEN AS 80 MNOK (2025)
CHRISTIAN HARTZ AS 75 MNOK (2025)
HAMARBIL AS 70 MNOK (2025)
COLMEC AS 70 MNOK (2025)
BILLAGERET AS 66 MNOK (2025)
JANNICKE M. HAGEN AS 62 MNOK (2025)
SØLVBANKEN AS 53 MNOK (2025)

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

Earlier municipalities

Hamar (0403) · renumbered 2020

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.