Municipality

Skien

Municipality no. 4003 · Telemark · 56,906 inhabitants · KOSTRA group 11

Municipality index · based on 2025

36 of 100

Rank 8 of 10 in KOSTRA group 11. 302 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	44	53
Economy	40	49
Population and growth	17	53
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)	73.4% 2025	73.4%	76.7%	table 11618 figures from an earlier municipality number
Job coverage (jobs per employed resident) (shown, not in the index)	100.9% 2025	101.3%	90.0%	table 11618 figures from an earlier municipality number
Registered unemployed, share of labour force (low scores high)	2.0% 2025	1.9%	1.3%	table 13563 figures from an earlier municipality number
New enterprises per 1,000 inhabitants (high scores high)	8.3 2023	9.6	9.2	table 13701 figures from an earlier municipality number
Limited company bankruptcies per 1,000 inhabitants (low scores high)	0.7 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 639,800 2024	NOK 648,350	NOK 657,600	table 06944 figures from an earlier municipality number
Net operating result, share of operating revenue (municipal group) (high scores high)	0.9% 2025	1.8%	1.3%	table 12143 figures from an earlier municipality number
Unrestricted reserves, share of operating revenue (high scores high)	13.1% 2025	9.8%	10.4%	table 12143 figures from an earlier municipality number
Net debt, share of operating revenue (low scores high)	84.6% 2025	89.6%	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)	56,906 2026	58,284	5,447	table 11342 figures from an earlier municipality number
Population growth, last year (high scores high)	0.1% 2026	0.6%	0.3%	table 06913 figures from an earlier municipality number
Net migration per 1,000 inhabitants (high scores high)	2.0 2025	5.4	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: 909
With accounts 2026: 1
Turnover 2026 (NOK): 8 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

ERIK TANCHE NILSSEN AS 368 MNOK (2025)
SPOT AS 300 MNOK (2025)
RESERVOIR STURGEON AS 247 MNOK (2025)
RESERVOIR FARADAY AS 246 MNOK (2025)
ELEKTRO 4 AS 240 MNOK (2025)
GRENLAND BILSERVICE AS 203 MNOK (2025)
SAGA MAT AS 194 MNOK (2025)
MATHUSET FROGNER AS 115 MNOK (2025)
RESERVOIR NEWTON AS 109 MNOK (2025)
STEEN-HANSEN MASKIN AS 108 MNOK (2025)
JEMO ENTREPRENØR AS 107 MNOK (2025)
GS DAGLIGVAREDRIFT AS 106 MNOK (2025)
AUTOBUDGET AS 103 MNOK (2025)
AUTOMOTOR AS 100 MNOK (2025)
GRØNTKLIMA AS 91 MNOK (2025)

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

Earlier municipalities

Skien (3807) · 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.