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Agricultural properties
The statistics show the number of agricultural and forestry properties, land resources, the number and type of buildings, persons residing on the properties and ownership information.
Selected figures from these statistics
- Agricultural and forestry propertiesDownload table as ...Agricultural and forestry properties1
2024 Number Per cent Total 182 528 100 Type of property Property with agricultural area 160 330 88 Property with productive forest area 130 988 72 Property with dwelling house 143 162 78 Uninhabited property with dwelling house 32 827 18 Type of owner Male 120 833 66 Female 48 073 26 Properties of persons deceased/legal person/unknown 13 622 7 1Including properties with at least 5 decares owned agricultural area and/or at least 25 decares productive forest area. Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Agricultural and forestry properties, by the municipalities number of inhabitants and type of agricultural and forestry propertyDownload table as ...Agricultural and forestry properties, by the municipalities number of inhabitants and type of agricultural and forestry property
2024 Persons in Norway Persons living on agricultural and forestry properties Agricultural and forestry properties, total Agricultural and forestry properties with dwelling Unhabited dwelling on agricultural and forestry properties with dwelling Other agricultural and forestry properties The whole country 5 550 203 349 894 182 528 143 162 32 827 39 366 The municipalities number of inhabitants1 -2 500 inhabitants 154 989 38 428 26 787 20 167 6 632 6 620 2 500 - 4 999 inhabitants 249 211 50 240 30 549 23 745 6 609 6 804 5 000 - 9 999 inhabitants 494 557 73 112 40 771 32 007 7 842 8 764 10 000 - 24 999 inhabitants 1 038 964 102 292 47 520 38 358 7 332 9 162 25 000 inhabitants or more 3 612 482 85 822 36 901 28 885 4 412 8 016 1Based on the number of inhabitants 1 January the current year. Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Buildings on agricultural and forestry propertiesDownload table as ...Buildings on agricultural and forestry properties
Agricultural and forestry properties with buildings Agricultural and forestry properties with contruction activity last ten years (p Buildings, total Buildings with protection status (per cent) Dwelling houses, total Agricultural and forestry buildings Mountain farm huts, cabins for forest workers, boat-houses etc Other buildings 2024 The whole country 164 707 26.3 927 698 21.1 199 675 436 498 83 848 207 677 Østfold 5 753 28.1 31 671 18.4 7 785 17 743 413 5 730 Akershus 7 652 27.6 45 022 22.9 10 998 20 516 692 12 816 Oslo 122 28.7 2 196 24.6 320 220 99 1 557 Innlandet 27 278 28.6 182 760 24.2 35 847 95 639 15 618 35 656 Buskerud 8 361 26.8 62 417 29.0 11 234 33 363 4 652 13 168 Vestfold 3 979 29.5 21 434 22.4 5 058 10 357 413 5 606 Telemark 7 521 27.3 45 621 25.1 9 238 21 623 2 815 11 945 Agder 11 684 28.8 52 226 27.3 12 258 23 086 3 292 13 590 Rogaland 9 335 38.4 54 022 11.0 13 123 26 217 3 167 11 515 Vestland 22 286 25.2 133 217 24.7 27 534 64 159 18 377 23 147 Møre og Romsdal 12 503 23.3 66 204 26.5 14 417 28 473 9 120 14 194 Trøndelag - Trööndelage 19 048 31.2 111 237 14.9 23 968 54 649 10 808 21 812 Nordland - Nordlánnda 15 924 17.3 64 501 10.8 15 118 21 683 7 797 19 903 Troms - Romsa - Tromssa 10 397 17.4 43 715 13.3 10 009 14 929 5 886 12 891 Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku 2 864 13.6 11 455 7.4 2 768 3 841 699 4 147 Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Agricultural and forestry properties, buildings and inhabitationDownload table as ...Agricultural and forestry properties, buildings and inhabitation1
2024 Agrucultural and forestry properties, total Agricultural and forestry properties with buildings Agrucultural and forestry properties with buildings (per cent) Agricultural and forestry properties with dwelling house Agricultural and forestry properties with inhabited Agricultural and forestry properties with dwelling house not inhabited (per cent Persons, total, inhabited on agricultural and forestry properties with dwelling The whole country 182 528 164 707 90.2 143 162 110 335 22.9 349 894 County Østfold 6 500 5 753 88.5 5 235 4 697 10.3 16 074 Akershus 8 715 7 652 87.8 6 938 6 250 9.9 23 296 Oslo 147 122 83.0 91 76 16.5 500 Innlandet 30 005 27 278 90.9 24 109 19 856 17.6 60 205 Buskerud 9 211 8 361 90.8 7 243 6 163 14.9 20 987 Vestfold 4 376 3 979 90.9 3 677 3 383 8.0 12 017 Telemark 8 260 7 521 91.1 6 512 5 074 22.1 15 117 Agder 13 258 11 684 88.1 10 197 7 397 27.5 21 005 Rogaland 10 313 9 335 90.5 8 317 6 902 17.0 27 229 Vestland 23 727 22 286 93.9 19 702 14 244 27.7 44 829 Møre og Romsdal 13 418 12 503 93.2 11 065 8 522 23.0 26 038 Trøndelag - Trööndelage 20 784 19 048 91.6 16 808 13 755 18.2 47 223 Nordland - Nordlánnda 18 304 15 924 87.0 12 691 7 343 42.1 18 756 Troms - Romsa - Tromssa 11 968 10 397 86.9 8 265 5 141 37.8 12 480 Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku 3 542 2 864 80.9 2 312 1 532 33.7 4 138 Owner Male 120 833 111 983 92.7 100 083 80 473 19.6 257 769 Female 48 073 43 479 90.4 37 705 27 473 27.1 82 982 Properties of persons deceased/legal person/unknown 13 622 9 245 67.9 5 374 2 389 55.5 9 143 Own agricultural area 0 - 4 decares 22 198 13 407 60.4 6 606 3 626 45.1 9 365 5 - 49 decares 98 152 90 389 92.1 77 995 53 676 31.2 144 388 50 - 99 decares 28 381 27 580 97.2 26 185 22 444 14.3 71 994 100 - 199 decares 21 397 21 032 98.3 20 391 19 026 6.7 70 925 200 - 299 decares 7 118 7 050 99.0 6 869 6 602 3.9 27 782 300 - 499 decares 4 009 3 983 99.4 3 885 3 769 3.0 18 344 500 decares or more 1 273 1 266 99.5 1 231 1 192 3.2 7 096 Productive forest area 0-24 decares 51 540 45 841 88.9 39 441 29 307 25.7 85 880 25-99 decares 46 017 39 394 85.6 33 051 24 198 26.8 71 355 100-249 decares 34 200 31 218 91.3 27 512 21 126 23.2 66 379 250-499 decares 22 196 20 847 93.9 18 767 15 065 19.7 50 561 500-999 decares 15 621 14 925 95.5 13 511 11 290 16.4 39 857 1 000-1 999 decares 8 038 7 721 96.1 6 958 5 986 14.0 21 829 2 000-4 999 decares 3 636 3 517 96.7 3 056 2 659 13.0 10 338 5 000-19 999 decares 1 034 1 003 97.0 726 612 15.7 2 828 20 000 decares or more 246 241 98.0 140 92 34.3 867 1Including properties with at least 5 decares owned agricultural area and/or at least 25 decares productive forest area. Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ...
About the statistics
The information under «About the statistics» was last updated 26 June 2025.
Agricultural and forestry property
Property that is used for or could be used for agriculture and/or forestry. All agricultural/forestry area belonging to the same owner within a municipality is regarded as one property, irrespective of the number of cadastral units.
Type of building
Type of building is determined according to the function of the building. In this statistics dwelling houses include buildings with the following building codes in the cadastral system; 111 – 199, excluding code 161, 171, 172, 181, 182 and 183. Agricultural buildings include buildings with the following codes in cadastral system; 231 – 290 and mountain farm huts, cabins for forest workers and boat-houses etc. 171, 172 and 183. Other buildings include the remaining codes and buildings missing code.
Building activity last 10 years
Information is collected from the Property Register. Building activity over the past ten years refers to buildings that have either been granted a building permit or have been completed as new constructions, extensions, or reconstructions within the ten-year period.
Inhabitation
An agricultural property is considered inhabited when at least one person is registered as residing at the property in the Central Population Register.
Name: Agricultural properties
Topic: Agriculture, forestry, hunting and fishing
Division for Housing, Property, Spatial and Agricultural Statistics
County and municipality.
Annually.
Collected and revised data are stored securely by Statistics Norway in compliance with applicable legislation on data processing.
Statistics Norway can grant access to the source data (de-identified or anonymised microdata) on which the statistics are based, for researchers and public authorities for the purposes of preparing statistical results and analyses. Access can be granted upon application and subject to conditions. Refer to the details about this at Access to data from Statistics Norway.
The statistics describes buildings, habitation and areas on agricultural properties. The statistics also give information about the owners of the properties and theirs business.
Users include public and private sector agencies, organizations and individuals.
No external users have access to statistics before they are released at 8 a.m. on ssb.no after at least three months’ advance notice in the release calendar. This is one of the most important principles in Statistics Norway for ensuring the equal treatment of users.
Forestry, structural statistics comprise forestry properties with at least 25 decares productive forest area while Agriculture, structural statistics comprise agricultural holdings.
The statistics are developed, produced and disseminated pursuant to Act no. 32 of 21 June 2019 relating to official statistics and Statistics Norway (the Statistics Act).
Including 2010, the statistics comprise properties in the Farm Register of the Norwegian Agricultural Authority with at least 5 decares owned agricultural area and/or at least 25 decares productive forest area. As from 2012 the statistics are based on new cartographic data analyses and data on owners and properties from the cadastre in combination with data from the Farm register. Figured for 2011 are not published.
Information on property owners and inhabitants refers to the status on 1 January.
It may be difficult to decide whether a property is an agricultural property or not. As from 2022 we have taken in use a more consistant way to include properties found in cartographic data analysis which is not registered in the Farm register.
The Farm Register of the Norwegian Agricultural Authority serves as the backbone of the statistics. The information from the Farm Register is combined with information at property level from different data sources like the Property Register, the Central Population register, the Cultural Heritage Register (SEFRAK) and SSB’s population of agricultural holdings.
All data are collected from administrative registers.
Data are checked by various machine controls.
Employees of Statistics Norway have a duty of confidentiality.
Statistics Norway does not publish figures if there is a risk of the respondent’s contribution being identified. This means that, as a general rule, figures are not published if fewer than three units form the basis of a cell in a table or if the contribution of one or two respondents constitutes a very large part of the cell total.
Statistics Norway can make exceptions to the general rule if deemed necessary to meet the requirements of the EEA agreement, if the respondent is a public authority, if the respondent has consented to this, or when the information disclosed is openly accessible to the public.
More information can be found on Statistics Norway’s website under Methods in official statistics, in the ‘Confidentiality’ section.
In 2006, the statistics were published for the first time. Corresponding statistic are worked out for 2000 . When comparing data from 2000 with data from 2006 and later, improved quality of the registers and different demarcation of the population may influence the statistics at municipality level.
In 2000, one of the indicators was "Inhabited on agricultural properties with building". From 2006 this was changed to" Inhabited on agricultural properties with dwelling house".
Introduction of property tax in some municipalities may cause changes in the classification of buildings by type of building. In special, holiday homes encoded as farmhose or detached house will influence on the share of properties with dwelling house.
A quality improvement of areas and units in the Farm Register is carried out at municipality level. For some municipalities this resulted in considerable changes from one year to another.
As from 2007 information about registered owner of agricultural properties comes from the Cadastral System (Matrikkelen). More than 30 000 agricultural properties have more than one owner. In that cases, the owner with the largest share is choosen. If the share is equal, the oldest owner is choosen.
In 2024, the methodology for determining the number of residents on agricultural properties was revised. As a result, fewer properties are now classified as inhabited, while the number of residents per property has increased. Enhanced data quality in both the National Population Register and the Property Register (formerly the Cadastre) has made it possible to use these registers more accurately to determine individuals’ places of residence. Previously, when multiple families were registered at the same dwelling, they were reassigned to other dwellings on the same property or to other properties with the same cadastral number. This practice led to a larger number of properties being classified as inhabited.
Before 2007, information of owners comes from the Farm Register. In some cases a contact person or a management company are registered as the property owner in that register. It is not clear in what way the information about the owner are treated when only a part of the property is sold.
The methodology for calculating construction activity was changed in 2024. As a result, the proportion of agricultural properties reporting construction activity has increased, and the figures are therefore not directly comparable with those from previous years.
Buildings registered without the need for application, after the introduction of the data register Matrikkelen in 2008, have to varying degrees been registered with all necessary information. In 2008 and 2009, this in turn has led to an underestimation of buildings in the agricultural sector. In 2010, 5000-6000 buildings were registered without need of application.
As from 2012, the number of forest properties and productive forest area are based on new cartographic data analyses and data on owners and properties from the cadastre in combination with data from the Farm register.
Errors may arise when data are entered into the various administrative registers.
A concern is the quality of the Farm Register. The productive forest area of the properties is sometimes missing or erroneous. We also believe that some small properties without buildings and entrepreneurial activity may lack in the register.'
Even though the registers have good quality, some errors could occur due to late or missing updating and classification errors. For instance, an agricultural property may contain a cadastral unit recently transferred to non-agricultural use. For instance, nursing homes and rental housing may be counted together with an agricultural property.
In that cases the number of inhabited will be corrected on cadstral level. Cadastral units with buildings as nursing homes, retirement homes, block of flats etc, or with buildings with more than six residences, the number of inhabited are corrected. In total, 19 000 persons are taken away from the agricultural properties.
The main concern is the quality of productive forest area. In the cadastre, 920 000 decares productive forest area are not linked to a title number of a holding number, and will not be included in the statistics.