Municipality

Lyngdal

Municipality no. 4225 · Agder · 10,922 inhabitants · KOSTRA group 7

Municipality index · based on 2025

63 of 100

Rank 8 of 38 in KOSTRA group 7. 67 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	72	49
Economy	64	48
Population and growth	46	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)	75.6% 2025	76.9%	76.7%	table 11618
Job coverage (jobs per employed resident) (shown, not in the index)	91.7% 2025	82.4%	90.0%	table 11618
Registered unemployed, share of labour force (low scores high)	1.0% 2025	1.6%	1.3%	table 13563
New enterprises per 1,000 inhabitants (high scores high)	10.4 2023	9.2	9.2	table 13701 figures from an earlier municipality number
Limited company bankruptcies per 1,000 inhabitants (low scores high)	0.3 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 681,600 2024	NOK 706,900	NOK 657,600	table 06944 some years withheld by SSB
Net operating result, share of operating revenue (municipal group) (high scores high)	2.5% 2025	1.9%	1.3%	table 12143
Unrestricted reserves, share of operating revenue (high scores high)	15.2% 2025	7.3%	10.4%	table 12143
Net debt, share of operating revenue (low scores high)	79.5% 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)	10,922 2026	15,198	5,447	table 11342
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)	2.9 2025	4.4	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: 226
With accounts 2025: 101
Turnover 2025 (NOK): 1,153 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

NORNEBYGG AS 347 MNOK (2025)
KONKRET ENTREPRENØR AS 269 MNOK (2025)
TJOMSLAND AS 79 MNOK (2025)
FA BETONG AS 49 MNOK (2025)
KONSMO MAT AS 42 MNOK (2025)
TRIPPEL MOTOR AS 38 MNOK (2025)
AIRSUSPENSION AS 30 MNOK (2025)
LISTER ELEKTRO HOLDING AS 16 MNOK (2025)
ZOOTROPIA AS 16 MNOK (2025)
SKEIDAR LYNGDAL AS 15 MNOK (2025)
EL-SHOP LYNGDAL AS 13 MNOK (2025)
SKJÆRGÅRD EIENDOM AS 11 MNOK (2025)
LINNI HELGE FOSS AS 11 MNOK (2025)
MØBELRINGEN LYNGDAL AS 11 MNOK (2025)
TREFIBERISOLERING SØR AS 11 MNOK (2025)

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

Earlier municipalities

Audnedal (1027) · merged 2020
Lyngdal (1032) · merged 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.