Municipality

Vennesla

Municipality no. 4223 · Agder · 15,772 inhabitants · KOSTRA group 7

Municipality index · based on 2025

51 of 100

Rank 17 of 38 in KOSTRA group 7. 170 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	33	49
Economy	66	48
Population and growth	61	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)	73.4% 2025	76.9%	76.7%	table 11618
Job coverage (jobs per employed resident) (shown, not in the index)	58.8% 2025	82.4%	90.0%	table 11618
Registered unemployed, share of labour force (low scores high)	1.5% 2025	1.6%	1.3%	table 13563
New enterprises per 1,000 inhabitants (high scores high)	7.8 2023	9.2	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 656,300 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)	3.0% 2025	1.9%	1.3%	table 12143
Unrestricted reserves, share of operating revenue (high scores high)	19.7% 2025	7.3%	10.4%	table 12143
Net debt, share of operating revenue (low scores high)	75.8% 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)	15,772 2026	15,198	5,447	table 11342
Population growth, last year (high scores high)	1.0% 2026	0.5%	0.3%	table 06913
Net migration per 1,000 inhabitants (high scores high)	3.3 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: 205
With accounts 2025: 86
Turnover 2025 (NOK): 718 MNOK
Median operating margin 2025: 3.3%

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

TREKANTEN MAT AS 75 MNOK (2025)
TERJE VIK SCHEI AS 66 MNOK (2025)
MESTERMAL AS 53 MNOK (2025)
BYGGMESTER ERIK KÅBULAND AS 46 MNOK (2025)
BRUVEGEN AS 37 MNOK (2025)
HÆGELAND MAT AS 31 MNOK (2025)
AUTOFORM AS 28 MNOK (2025)
COLOSS BYGG AS 26 MNOK (2025)
LEIFS MAT AS 23 MNOK (2025)
MAGIC STORE AS 22 MNOK (2025)
HOLBÆK RØR AS 21 MNOK (2025)
PIPEFIKS AS 21 MNOK (2025)
ÅSEN BIL AS 19 MNOK (2025)
MURMESTER ROLF TJOMSÅS AS 15 MNOK (2025)
HANSEN OG JEPSEN AS 14 MNOK (2025)

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

Earlier municipalities

Vennesla (1014) · 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.