Municipality

Sandnes

Municipality no. 1108 · Rogaland · 85,785 inhabitants · KOSTRA group 12

Municipality index · based on 2025

61 of 100

Rank 3 of 11 in KOSTRA group 12. 79 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	50	50
Economy	66	60
Population and growth	70	45
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)	78.5% 2025	78.0%	76.7%	table 11618
Job coverage (jobs per employed resident) (shown, not in the index)	93.1% 2025	105.0%	90.0%	table 11618
Registered unemployed, share of labour force (low scores high)	1.9% 2025	1.7%	1.3%	table 13563
New enterprises per 1,000 inhabitants (high scores high)	10.1 2023	11.1	9.2	table 13701 figures from an earlier municipality number
Limited company bankruptcies per 1,000 inhabitants (low scores high)	0.5 2025	0.7	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 756,600 2024	NOK 671,700	NOK 657,600	table 06944 some years withheld by SSB
Net operating result, share of operating revenue (municipal group) (high scores high)	2.9% 2025	2.9%	1.3%	table 12143
Unrestricted reserves, share of operating revenue (high scores high)	10.5% 2025	12.9%	10.4%	table 12143
Net debt, share of operating revenue (low scores high)	69.3% 2025	90.3%	84.9%	table 12143

Population and growth

Key figure	Value	Group median	National median	Source
Population on 1 January (shown, not in the index)	85,785 2026	106,013	5,447	table 11342
Population growth, last year (high scores high)	1.0% 2026	0.9%	0.3%	table 06913
Net migration per 1,000 inhabitants (high scores high)	5.1 2025	5.1	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: 1,225
With accounts 2025: 489
Turnover 2025 (NOK): 30,138 MNOK
Median operating margin 2025: 4.2%

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

COSL OFFSHORE MANAGEMENT AS 5,220 MNOK (2025)
ARCHER AS 4,217 MNOK (2025)
OCEANEERING AS 2,158 MNOK (2025)
ARCHER OILTOOLS AS 1,339 MNOK (2025)
ALLSEAS NORWAY AS 1,325 MNOK (2025)
CIMC OFFSHORE AS 1,288 MNOK (2025)
ZAPTEC CHARGER AS 1,250 MNOK (2025)
WEATHERFORD NORGE AS 1,174 MNOK (2025)
CRANE NORWAY VEST AS 1,077 MNOK (2025)
ARCHER NORGE AS 1,008 MNOK (2025)
HOME BRANDS AS 999 MNOK (2025)
ØSTER HUS ENTREPRENØR AS 451 MNOK (2025)
TILBORDS AS 436 MNOK (2025)
NOS CHEMICALS AS 352 MNOK (2025)
SR-ENTREPRENØR AS 336 MNOK (2025)

1,225 limited companies in the sectors we follow have their business address here.

Earlier municipalities

Sandnes (1102) · merged 2020
Forsand (1129) · 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.