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Municipality

Tromsø

Municipality no. 5501 · Troms - Romsa - Tromssa · 79,943 inhabitants · KOSTRA group 12

Municipality index · based on 2025

38 of 100

Rank 9 of 11 in KOSTRA group 12. 291 of 357 nationally.

Sub-indices for the municipality against the group median
PartScore (0–100)Group median Development (0–100)Score as a bar
Work and business – – – No figures
Economy – – – No figures
Population and growth – – – No figures
Work, education and housing – – – No figures
Local economy (our company data) – – – No figures
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.

Level and development in the group

Too few municipalities with both level and development.

Similar municipalities

Not computed yet.

Key figures from Statistics Norway

Work and business

Key figureValueGroup medianNational medianTrendSource
Employed, share of age 20–66 (high scores high) 80.6% 2025 78.0% 76.7% table 11618 figures from an earlier municipality number
Job coverage (jobs per employed resident) (shown, not in the index) 105.0% 2025 105.0% 90.0% table 11618 figures from an earlier municipality number
Registered unemployed, share of labour force (low scores high) 0.9% 2025 1.7% 1.3% table 13563 figures from an earlier municipality number
New enterprises per 1,000 inhabitants (high scores high) 9.9 2023 11.1 9.2 table 13701 figures from an earlier municipality number
Limited company bankruptcies per 1,000 inhabitants (low scores high) 0.4 2025 0.7 0.5 table 07165 figures from an earlier municipality number

Economy

Key figureValueGroup medianNational medianTrendSource
Household income after tax, median (high scores high) NOK 658,600 2024 NOK 671,700 NOK 657,600 table 06944 figures from an earlier municipality number
Net operating result, share of operating revenue (municipal group) (high scores high) −0.1% 2025 2.9% 1.3% table 12143 figures from an earlier municipality number
Unrestricted reserves, share of operating revenue (high scores high) 0.8% 2025 12.9% 10.4% table 12143 figures from an earlier municipality number
Net debt, share of operating revenue (low scores high) 118.4% 2025 90.3% 84.9% table 12143 figures from an earlier municipality number

Population and growth

Key figureValueGroup medianNational medianTrendSource
Population on 1 January (shown, not in the index) 79,943 2026 106,013 5,447 table 11342 figures from an earlier municipality number
Population growth, last year (high scores high) 0.7% 2026 0.9% 0.3% table 06913 figures from an earlier municipality number
Net migration per 1,000 inhabitants (high scores high) 2.0 2025 5.1 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.

Industries in the municipality

Industry figures for the municipality have not been fetched yet.

Housing and labour market

Commuting figures have not been fetched yet.

Stress test: the oil downturn and the pandemic

The stress test has not been computed yet.

Cost and quality of services

KOSTRA figures for cost and quality have not been fetched yet.

Companies registered in the municipality

Limited companies we follow
1,004
With accounts 2026
1
Turnover 2026 (NOK)
14 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

1,004 limited companies in the sectors we follow have their business address here.

Latest awards from buyers in the municipality

From Doffin. The buyer's address decides the municipality; state agencies are often where their head office is.

Contains data under the Norwegian licence for public data (NLOD 2.0) made available by Doffin/the Norwegian Agency for Public and Financial Management (DFØ). NLOD 2.0

Earlier municipalities

  • Tromsø (5401) · renumbered 2024

News and announcements

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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.