Agricultural properties
Updated: 27 June 2024
Next update: 27 June 2025
| 2023 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Number | Per cent | |
| Total | 182 526 | 100 |
| Type of property | ||
| Property with agricultural area | 160 456 | 88 |
| Property with productive forest area | 130 870 | 72 |
| Property with dwelling house | 143 161 | 78 |
| Uninhabited property with dwelling house | 30 516 | 17 |
| Type of owner | ||
| Male | 120 891 | 66 |
| Female | 47 941 | 26 |
| Properties of persons deceased/legal person/unknown | 13 694 | 8 |
| 1Including properties with at least 5 decares owned agricultural area and/or at least 25 decares productive forest area. | ||
| ² The numbers for male, female and properties of persons deceased were corrected 4 November 2021. | ||
Selected tables and charts from this statistics
- 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
2023 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 5 488 984 346 999 182 526 143 161 30 516 39 365 The municipalities number of inhabitants1 -2 500 inhabitants 160 550 39 806 27 740 20 901 6 476 6 839 2 500 - 4 999 inhabitants 240 098 47 837 29 458 22 843 6 070 6 615 5 000 - 9 999 inhabitants 500 975 74 541 41 735 32 875 7 475 8 860 10 000 - 24 999 inhabitants 1 033 269 99 625 46 892 37 716 6 612 9 176 25 000 inhabitants or more 3 554 092 85 190 36 701 28 826 3 883 7 875 1Based on the number of inhabitants 1 January the current year. Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Agricultural and forestry properties, buildings and inhabitationDownload table as ...Agricultural and forestry properties, buildings and inhabitation1
2023 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 182 526 164 694 90.2 143 161 112 645 21.3 346 999 County Viken (2020-2023) 24 478 21 799 89.1 19 426 17 342 10.7 60 286 Oslo 146 121 82.9 89 78 12.4 478 Innlandet 30 065 27 298 90.8 24 132 20 171 16.4 60 067 Vestfold og Telemark (2020-2023) 12 708 11 516 90.6 10 196 8 577 15.9 26 938 Agder 13 244 11 663 88.1 10 182 7 574 25.6 20 935 Rogaland 10 313 9 333 90.5 8 317 7 015 15.7 26 905 Vestland 23 638 22 254 94.1 19 692 14 599 25.9 44 116 Møre og Romsdal 13 405 12 500 93.2 11 071 8 747 21.0 25 736 Trøndelag - Trööndelage 20 806 19 065 91.6 16 811 13 915 17.2 46 517 Nordland - Nordlánnda 18 252 15 900 87.1 12 671 7 658 39.6 18 612 Troms og Finnmark - Romsa ja Finnmárku (2020-2023) 15 471 13 245 85.6 10 574 6 969 34.1 16 409 Owner Male 120 891 111 992 92.6 100 089 81 808 18.3 254 325 Female 47 941 43 401 90.5 37 678 28 186 25.2 82 450 Properties of persons deceased/legal person/unknown 13 694 9 301 67.9 5 394 2 651 50.9 10 224 Own agricultural area 0 - 4 decares 22 070 13 289 60.2 6 559 3 819 41.8 9 683 5 - 49 decares 98 245 90 476 92.1 78 019 55 362 29.0 143 916 50 - 99 decares 28 402 27 587 97.1 26 195 22 722 13.3 70 903 100 - 199 decares 21 406 21 039 98.3 20 398 19 135 6.2 69 889 200 - 299 decares 7 121 7 053 99.0 6 871 6 628 3.5 27 380 300 - 499 decares 4 009 3 984 99.4 3 888 3 780 2.8 18 231 500 decares or more 1 273 1 266 99.5 1 231 1 199 2.6 6 997 Productive forest area 0-24 decares 51 656 45 968 89.0 39 494 30 133 23.7 85 608 25-99 decares 45 802 39 205 85.6 32 953 24 816 24.7 71 023 100-249 decares 34 306 31 307 91.3 27 566 21 646 21.5 65 976 250-499 decares 22 299 20 932 93.9 18 848 15 324 18.7 50 060 500-999 decares 15 614 14 913 95.5 13 507 11 395 15.6 39 217 1 000-1 999 decares 7 985 7 676 96.1 6 929 5 985 13.6 21 321 2 000-4 999 decares 3 600 3 472 96.4 3 014 2 640 12.4 10 074 5 000-19 999 decares 1 016 981 96.6 707 605 14.4 2 842 20 000 decares or more 248 240 96.8 143 101 29.4 878 1Including properties with at least 5 decares owned agricultural area and/or at least 25 decares productive forest area. ² The numbers for male, female and properties of persons deceased were corrected 4 November 2021. Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Buildings on agricultural and forestry propertiesDownload table as ...Buildings on agricultural and forestry properties1
2023 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)2 Dwelling houses, total Agricultural and forestry buildings Mountain farm huts, cabins for forest workers, boat-houses etc Other buildings The whole country 164 694 17.5 926 192 20.8 199 313 435 671 85 617 205 591 Counties Viken (2020-2023) 21 799 19.2 138 248 24.5 29 852 71 346 5 786 31 264 Oslo 121 25.6 2 195 24.3 318 223 99 1 555 Innlandet 27 298 16.2 182 300 23.9 35 846 95 590 15 604 35 260 Vestfold og Telemark (2020-2023) 11 516 19.5 66 685 23.9 14 288 31 873 3 244 17 280 Agder 11 663 20.7 51 986 27.0 12 237 22 961 3 296 13 492 Rogaland 9 333 27.7 53 654 10.8 13 070 25 975 3 192 11 417 Vestland 22 254 16.7 134 839 24.1 27 455 64 396 19 901 23 087 Møre og Romsdal 12 500 15.5 66 206 26.2 14 426 28 410 9 259 14 111 Trøndelag - Trööndelage 19 065 20.9 110 866 14.7 23 955 54 510 10 759 21 642 Nordland - Nordlánnda 15 900 11.7 64 309 10.4 15 097 21 659 7 883 19 670 Troms og Finnmark - Romsa ja Finnmárku (2020-2023) 13 245 10.3 54 904 12.2 12 769 18 728 6 594 16 813 1Including properties with at least 5 decares owned agricultural area and/or at least 25 decares productive forest area. 2Comprises buildings built before 1900. In Finnmark are buildings built before 1945 included. Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ...
More figures from this statistics
- 06520: Agricultural and forestry properties, buildings and inhabitation (M)
- 06521: Buildings on agricultural and forestry properties (M)
- 10206: Area of agricultural properties, by area classification (M)
- 08087: Agricultural and forestry properties, by the municipalities number of inhabitants
- 06543: Agricultural and forestry properties, buildings and inhabitation, by agricultural activity
About the statistics
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.
The information under «About the statistics» was last updated 21 September 2023.
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 cadastral system. Building activity last 10 years refers to construction of new buildings or extension of existing buildings in the last ten years period.
Inhabitation
An agricultural property is inhabited when at least one person has the property as place of residence registered in the Central Population register.
Name: Agricultural properties
Topic: Agriculture, forestry, hunting and fishing
Division for Housing, Property, Spatial and Agricultural Statistics
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The statistics describes buildings, habitation and areas on agricultural properties. The statistics also give information about the owners of the properties and theirs business.
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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.
Inforformation on property owners date back to 01.01 current year while information on inhabitants date back to 31.12 current year.
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 Cadastre System (no: Matrikkelen), the Central Population register, the Cultural Heritage Register (SEFRAK), SSB’s population of agricultural holdings.
All data are collected from administrative registers.
Data are checked by various machine controls.
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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.
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.
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.
