Municipality

Lillesand

Municipality no. 4215 · Agder · 11,822 inhabitants · KOSTRA group 7

Municipality index · based on 2025

46 of 100

Rank 23 of 38 in KOSTRA group 7. 216 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	43	49
Economy	35	48
Population and growth	68	51
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)	75.9% 2025	76.9%	76.7%	table 11618
Job coverage (jobs per employed resident) (shown, not in the index)	91.9% 2025	82.4%	90.0%	table 11618
Registered unemployed, share of labour force (low scores high)	2.2% 2025	1.6%	1.3%	table 13563
New enterprises per 1,000 inhabitants (high scores high)	10.1 2023	9.2	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 724,800 2024	NOK 706,900	NOK 657,600	table 06944 figures from an earlier municipality number
Net operating result, share of operating revenue (municipal group) (high scores high)	1.1% 2025	1.9%	1.3%	table 12143
Unrestricted reserves, share of operating revenue (high scores high)	1.7% 2025	7.3%	10.4%	table 12143
Net debt, share of operating revenue (low scores high)	112.9% 2025	95.2%	84.9%	table 12143

Population and growth

Key figure	Value	Group median	National median	Source
Population on 1 January (shown, not in the index)	11,822 2026	15,198	5,447	table 11342
Population growth, last year (high scores high)	0.7% 2026	0.5%	0.3%	table 06913
Net migration per 1,000 inhabitants (high scores high)	7.7 2025	4.4	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: 246
With accounts 2026: 1
Turnover 2026 (NOK): 83 MNOK
Median operating margin 2026: too few companies

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

ASKO AGDER AS 6,911 MNOK (2025)
CENCO AS 222 MNOK (2025)
SØR CARAVAN AS 160 MNOK (2025)
ITEK AS 83 MNOK (2026)
MBL AS 68 MNOK (2025)
TRIMTEX NORGE AS 61 MNOK (2025)
GOVI AS 52 MNOK (2025)
TRIMTEX SPORT AS 51 MNOK (2025)
VERTECH OFFSHORE AS 41 MNOK (2025)
AUTOSENTER LILLESAND AS 32 MNOK (2025)
FOLDVIK RØRLEGGERFORRETNING AS 29 MNOK (2025)
BLIX BYGGEFIRMA AS 26 MNOK (2025)
HANDI AID AS 24 MNOK (2025)
AGDER MASSEMOTTAK AS 22 MNOK (2025)
HØVÅG BYGG AS 22 MNOK (2025)

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

Earlier municipalities

Lillesand (0926) · 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.