Municipality

Lier

Municipality no. 3312 · Buskerud · 28,797 inhabitants · KOSTRA group 9

Municipality index · based on 2025

51 of 100

Rank 15 of 27 in KOSTRA group 9. 177 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	52	49
Population and growth	48	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)	77.7% 2025	76.3%	76.7%	table 11618 figures from an earlier municipality number
Job coverage (jobs per employed resident) (shown, not in the index)	98.1% 2025	95.5%	90.0%	table 11618 figures from an earlier municipality number
Registered unemployed, share of labour force (low scores high)	1.8% 2025	1.5%	1.3%	table 13563 figures from an earlier municipality number
New enterprises per 1,000 inhabitants (high scores high)	11.2 2023	8.9	9.2	table 13701 figures from an earlier municipality number
Limited company bankruptcies per 1,000 inhabitants (low scores high)	0.6 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 761,700 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)	0.2% 2025	0.9%	1.3%	table 12143 figures from an earlier municipality number
Unrestricted reserves, share of operating revenue (high scores high)	7.3% 2025	8.6%	10.4%	table 12143 figures from an earlier municipality number
Net debt, share of operating revenue (low scores high)	92.1% 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)	28,797 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)	2.7 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: 580
With accounts 2025: 214
Turnover 2025 (NOK): 6,232 MNOK
Median operating margin 2025: 3.9%

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

RØRKJØP AS 871 MNOK (2025)
ALENTO AS 752 MNOK (2025)
BAMA BLOMSTERTORGET AS 512 MNOK (2025)
ROGALAND DAGLIGVARE AS 494 MNOK (2025)
TESS AS 342 MNOK (2025)
ENDRESS+HAUSER AS 334 MNOK (2025)
FELDT'S FISK & SKALLDYR AS 266 MNOK (2025)
HAMAR DAGLIGVARE AS 263 MNOK (2025)
LUNDEHAUGEN MAT AS 201 MNOK (2025)
RØRHANDELEN AS 174 MNOK (2025)
BREVIK AS 139 MNOK (2025)
E.HAUGER AS 136 MNOK (2025)
DEKKPROFF AS 114 MNOK (2025)
TRIO BETONG AS 114 MNOK (2025)
MODUL-SYSTEM AS 87 MNOK (2025)

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

Earlier municipalities

Lier (3049) · 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.