Municipality

Hareid

Municipality no. 1517 · Møre og Romsdal · 5,411 inhabitants · KOSTRA group 1

Municipality index · based on 2025

47 of 100

Rank 25 of 40 in KOSTRA group 1. 212 of 357 nationally.

Sub-indices for the municipality against the group median
PartScore (0–100)Group medianScore as a bar
Work and business 40 55
Economy 17 50
Population and growth 99 54
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) 72.2% 2025 77.6% 76.7% table 11618
Job coverage (jobs per employed resident) (shown, not in the index) 77.8% 2025 73.6% 90.0% table 11618
Registered unemployed, share of labour force (low scores high) 1.6% 2025 1.4% 1.3% table 13563
New enterprises per 1,000 inhabitants (high scores high) 8.5 2023 9.1 9.2 table 13701
Limited company bankruptcies per 1,000 inhabitants (low scores high) 0.4 2025 0.5 0.5 table 07165

Economy

Key figureValueGroup medianNational medianTrendSource
Household income after tax, median (high scores high) NOK 687,100 2024 NOK 687,900 NOK 657,600 table 06944
Net operating result, share of operating revenue (municipal group) (high scores high) −0.7% 2025 1.8% 1.3% table 12143
Unrestricted reserves, share of operating revenue (high scores high) 0.1% 2025 5.5% 10.4% table 12143
Net debt, share of operating revenue (low scores high) 140.1% 2025 87.8% 84.9% table 12143

Population and growth

Key figureValueGroup medianNational medianTrendSource
Population on 1 January (shown, not in the index) 5,411 2026 7,130 5,447 table 11342
Population growth, last year (high scores high) 1.7% 2026 0.3% 0.3% table 06913
Net migration per 1,000 inhabitants (high scores high) 18.4 2025 3.3 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
64
With accounts 2025
20
Turnover 2025 (NOK)
457 MNOK
Median operating margin 2025
−1.2%

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

64 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.