Municipality

Kongsberg

Municipality no. 3303 · Buskerud · 29,169 inhabitants · KOSTRA group 9

Municipality index · based on 2025

51 of 100

Rank 14 of 27 in KOSTRA group 9. 175 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	52	52
Economy	44	49
Population and growth	60	50
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)	77.6% 2025	76.3%	76.7%	table 11618 figures from an earlier municipality number
Job coverage (jobs per employed resident) (shown, not in the index)	117.4% 2025	95.5%	90.0%	table 11618 figures from an earlier municipality number
Registered unemployed, share of labour force (low scores high)	1.5% 2025	1.5%	1.3%	table 13563 figures from an earlier municipality number
New enterprises per 1,000 inhabitants (high scores high)	8.0 2023	8.9	9.2	table 13701 figures from an earlier municipality number
Limited company bankruptcies per 1,000 inhabitants (low scores high)	0.4 2025	0.5	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 686,900 2024	NOK 693,200	NOK 657,600	table 06944 figures from an earlier municipality number
Net operating result, share of operating revenue (municipal group) (high scores high)	1.5% 2025	0.9%	1.3%	table 12143 figures from an earlier municipality number
Unrestricted reserves, share of operating revenue (high scores high)	1.7% 2025	8.6%	10.4%	table 12143 figures from an earlier municipality number
Net debt, share of operating revenue (low scores high)	89.6% 2025	96.4%	84.9%	table 12143 figures from an earlier municipality number

Population and growth

Key figure	Value	Group median	National median	Source
Population on 1 January (shown, not in the index)	29,169 2026	25,569	5,447	table 11342 figures from an earlier municipality number
Population growth, last year (high scores high)	0.5% 2026	0.5%	0.3%	table 06913 figures from an earlier municipality number
Net migration per 1,000 inhabitants (high scores high)	6.6 2025	2.7	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: 368
With accounts 2025: 149
Turnover 2025 (NOK): 1,254 MNOK
Median operating margin 2025: 2.6%

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

ESSILOR NORGE AS 174 MNOK (2024)
MOBILE KONGSBERG AS 109 MNOK (2025)
AUTOSHOP AS 104 MNOK (2025)
ALLIANCE OPTIKK AS 96 MNOK (2025)
BILDELEKSPERTEN AS 74 MNOK (2025)
NORSK BERGSIKRING AS 67 MNOK (2025)
DAG ARNE NILSEN AVD. KONGSBERG AS 49 MNOK (2025)
KAJANDER MOTOR AS 49 MNOK (2025)
C OPTIKK AS 47 MNOK (2025)
HVITTINGFOSS SERVICESENTER AS 45 MNOK (2025)
BILGATTI AS 40 MNOK (2024)
CARAVAN SHOP AS 35 MNOK (2025)
KONGSBERG ENERGISELSKAP AS 34 MNOK (2025)
LØVÅS BIL AS 32 MNOK (2025)
BUSKERUD DYKKERSERVICE AS 29 MNOK (2025)

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

Earlier municipalities

Kongsberg (3006) · renumbered 2024

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.