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Statistics on
Municipal environmental management
Municipal and County Authorities Environmental Administration: Dispensations for motor traffic on uncultivated areas and watercourses. Protection of nature, landscape and cultural heritage. Energy consumption in municipal buildings. Gross operating expenses.
Selected figures from these statistics
- Environment and cultural heritage protection. Principal figuresDownload table as ...Environment and cultural heritage protection. Principal figures1
2025 Change from last year in per cent Change in per cent 2022 - 2025 Applications under the Act relating to motor traffic on uncultivated land processed in municipalities (number) 8 963 -14 -2 Dispensations for motor traffic on uncultivated land approved (number) 8 535 -12 1 Gross operating expenditure on recreation in urban areas, management of nature and outdoor life in municipalities (per capita. NOK) 819 5 21 Gross operating expenditure on cultural heritage protection in county council districts (per capita. NOK) 176 2 4 Granted applications for construction in LNFR areas (proportion. Per cent) 92 1 -4 1The statistics are based on the summation of reported figures from municipalities and county council districts. No estimations have been made to compensate for missing reporting. Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Municipal operating expenditure, revenue and capital expenditure regarding recreation within urban settlements, nature management, outdoor life and cultural heritage. 1000 NOKDownload table as ...Municipal operating expenditure, revenue and capital expenditure regarding recreation within urban settlements, nature management, outdoor life and cultural heritage. 1000 NOK1
Population. Number Recreation in urban settlements (function account 335) Nature and outdoor management (function account 360) Cultural heritage (function account 365) Gross revenue Gross operating expenditures Gross capital expenditure Gross revenue Gross operating expenditures Gross capital expenditure Gross revenue Gross operating expenditures Gross capital expenditure 2022 5 488 984 523 434 2 090 442 1 714 078 713 539 1 635 421 619 074 52 814 194 607 35 966 2023 5 550 203 611 891 2 357 122 1 742 936 759 257 1 884 578 646 199 51 361 207 944 42 370 2024 5 594 340 653 217 2 461 398 1 559 799 808 727 1 897 368 690 992 63 958 215 630 46 600 2025 5 627 400 724 713 2 626 269 1 441 718 1 184 404 1 980 845 604 868 66 515 239 151 67 388 1The statistics are based on the summation of reported figures from municipalities and county council districts. No estimations have been made to compensate for missing reporting. Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Motor traffic in outfieldsDownload table as ...Motor traffic in outfields1
Processing of applications for motor traffic in outfields Snowmobile routes2 Processed applications. Number Approved applications. Number Applications rejected. Number Valid permits, including from previous years. Number Municipalities with snowmobile routes. Number Total distance of routes. Km 2021 11 825 10 816 453 25 069 43 7 811.4 2022 9 113 8 490 385 25 619 .. 8 699.8 2023 10 717 9 435 524 23 687 .. 8 503.1 2024 10 363 9 703 347 24 063 .. 8 501.3 2025 8 963 8 535 350 20 822 .. 7 644.7 1The statistics are based on the summation of reported figures from municipalities and county council districts. No estimations have been made to compensate for missing reporting. 2As of 2019 the report also includes "snowmobile trails" for ice fishing and for for driving on icy watercourses in Nord-Troms and Finnmark. Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Number of reported zoning plans relating to municipal preservation of cultural heritage, landscape and protection of nature.Download table as ...Number of reported zoning plans relating to municipal preservation of cultural heritage, landscape and protection of nature.1
2022 2023 2024 2025 Cultural heritage preservation Plans in force per December 31 4 945 5 045 5 185 5 576 Plans approved in the year of reporting 154 215 125 164 Plans changed in the year of reporting and preservation purposes removed 37 29 31 9 Landscape preservation Plans in force per December 31 795 812 829 1 191 Plans approved in the year of reporting 27 29 21 24 Plans changed in the year of reporting and preservation purposes removed 11 3 4 5 Nature protection Plans in force per December 31 929 961 1 012 1 113 Plans approved in the year of reporting 40 43 54 51 Plans changed in the year of reporting and preservation purposes removed 10 3 3 17 1The statistics are based on the summation of reported figures from municipalities and county council districts. No estimations have been made to compensate for missing reporting. Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - County council districts expenditure and revenue regarding cultural heritage and outdoor life etc. 1000 NOKDownload table as ...County council districts expenditure and revenue regarding cultural heritage and outdoor life etc. 1000 NOK1
Function account 716 Outdoor life, water region authority and management of game and inland fish Function account 750 Cultural heritage Gross operating revenues Gross operating expenditures Gross operating revenues Gross operating expenditures In total In total Per capita. NOK2 In total In total Per capita. NOK2 2022 181 241 310 611 65 520 247 928 535 194 2023 167 645 370 532 77 515 621 893 255 185 2024 170 613 352 748 72 497 320 959 919 197 2025 183 146 418 455 85 493 436 992 002 203 2025 County council district Østfold 23 109 42 916 136 21 466 43 640 138 Akershus 22 641 81 488 109 26 623 62 677 84 Oslo 0 0 0 0 0 0 Innlandet 7 853 14 173 37 55 132 143 355 378 Buskerud 8 816 19 824 73 14 535 33 023 121 Vestfold 7 422 12 417 48 6 453 35 129 135 Telemark 12 135 27 529 155 60 696 93 781 527 Agder 26 865 43 386 134 31 943 99 527 307 Rogaland 8 737 32 528 64 39 329 71 121 140 Vestland 31 614 46 997 71 93 938 152 845 232 Møre og Romsdal 10 173 22 375 82 28 836 48 086 176 Trøndelag - Trööndelage 12 915 29 246 60 46 848 80 473 165 Nordland - Nordlánnda 8 287 22 141 91 47 089 86 110 354 Troms - Romsa - Tromssa 752 16 250 95 7 573 22 151 129 Finnmark - Finnmárku 1 827 7 185 95 12 975 20 084 267 1The statistics are based on the summation of reported figures from municipalities and county council districts. No estimations have been made to compensate for missing reporting. 2Figures for the whole country except Oslo Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ...
About the statistics
The information under «About the statistics» was last updated 7 June 2024.
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Classification of Norwegian municipalities by population size and economic workload 2020
The purpose of this report is to classify Norwegian municipalities according to three dimensions: Population size, economic workload and economic capacity. The measures of economic workload and capacity are estimated in a model of local government spending behaviour, and depend on variation in characteristics such as local government incomes, socio-demographic and geographic variables. The most extensive classification based on the three dimensions includes 17 groups. The resulting classification is based on data for 2018 and is compared to an earlier version based on data for 2013.
Name: Municipal environmental management
Topic: Nature and the environment
Municipalities and Counties
Follows the dissemination of KOSTRA-indicators. (Municipality-State-Reporting, indicators)
Frequency: Annually
Preliminary figures: 15 March
Final figures: 15 June
Articles (analysis) with tables and graphs based on the figures will be announced.
Timeliness: Figures on the previous year, on the above given dates.
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Data are stored on NT-server as SAS-, XLS, ARCINFO cover, ESRI filgeodatabase files.
KOSTRA (Municipal-State-Reporting) - in general:
The objective is to coordinate and increase the efficiency of all municipal reporting to the national authorities, and provide the local and national authorities with vital directing information.
KOSTRA was established in 1995, as a pilot project. The number of municipalities and county authorities included in the reporting and dissemination system increased gradually up to 2001, when all were included. KOSTRA provides a web-portal for the reporting. In addition to the reported data from municiplaities and county authorities, the KOSTRA-indicators are based on register-data such as municipal accounts, manpower information and population data.
Cultural monuments and local environment:
The objective is to obtain information on the municipal efforts to protect cultural monuments and safeguarding local environment.
The County Authorities (the County Curator) is responsibel for the protection of cultural monuments, and functions as a supervisory body for the municipalities.
KOSTRA provides directing information on the municipalities and the county authorities. The most frequent users would be the municipalities themselves, other regional and national authorities, media and the general public.
The main principle is that no external users have access to statistics or analyses before they are announced in the statistics calendar and published available for everyone at www.ssb.no. This is one of Statistics Norway’s key principles for ensuring that all users are treated equally. The media is never given access to statistics or analyses prior to their release.
Land use planning in municipalities and counties - http://www.ssb.no/english/subjects/01/01/20/fysplan_en/
Culture Statistics
- http://www.ssb.no/english/subjects/07/nos_cultural/nos_d444_en/
Data collection: Under the provisions of Local Government Act Section 49
Statistics compilation: Under the provisions of Statistics Act, Section 2.2
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Mandatory reporting for all municipalities and county authorities.
Data reported (web forms) from municipalities and county authorities on the following topics:
Municipal planning, building applications, mapping and surveying, recreational areas, management of nature resources and cultural monuments.
In addition to the above:
municipal accounts, number of inhabitants, length of coastline, cadastral information, protected areas and objects
Deadline: 15. February.
The data reported through the web-portal are subject to control in three stages: First stage is automatic controls embedded in the web-forms. Second stage is at the SSB data sink. Third stage is the audit performed by the variuos divisions responsibel for statistics and indicators.
The basic data (level 3 in KOSTRA) is mainly web form data (annual sums, averages) reported as abolute data. The key figures (level 2 in KOSTRA) are mainly ratios based on level 3 and other datasources.
Most of the key figures have weighted averages. For the absolute data used as key figures, the averages are arithmetic.
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Comparability over time and in space
KOSTRA includes figures from 1999. Statistics dissemination (Statistics Articles and tables in StatBank) startet in 2001 when all the municipalities and counties had joined KOSTRA . It has since 2001 been adjustments and expansions in questionnaires , thus not all time series go back to 2001. Any breaks in time series will be explained in footnotes to the tables.
Measurement errors in the data reported by the municipalities is believed to be main source of error. The controls embedded in the online forms, provide an automatic and instant feedback to the users.
Partial non-repons occurs in varying degrees for the various parts of the statistics. Non-respons on June 15 usually vary between 5-10 per cent, measured by number of municipalities.
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