Stedsvalg data for Greater Oslo
What is it like to live in Lysaker?
District/municipality: Bærum · 3 analysis cells · 4,462 residents in the cells
In short
Lysaker suits you best if you prioritize perceived safety and nearby public transport service. It suits you less if you’re looking for proximity to forest and large nature areas or food and cafés within walking distance. The figures are area averages, so always check the exact address.
The bar is the Stedsvalg model score from 0 to 100. Higher is always better.
Cost
What does it cost to live here?
- Purchase price
- NOK 84,298/m²
- Modeled local price (SSB), scaled to the municipality’s sales. Not an average of sales in the area.
- Rent, 2 rooms
- NOK 15,260/month
- Typical market rent for 2 rooms. The figure covers the rent zone Oslo og Bærum, not just this place.
Getting around
How easy is it to get around?
- Public transport
- 57.8 departures/hour
- In the morning peak, from stops within a short walk, where nearer stops count more. Counted across all routes and directions, so it isn't the frequency of any single line.
- 77/100 · Good
- Travel time to Oslo S
- 26 min
- By public transport to Oslo S, arriving 08:30 (Entur).
Daily life on foot
What can you reach without a car or bus?
- Restaurants and cafés
- Almost none
- Number within a 500 m walk of a typical home. Bars and pubs are not counted.
- 52/100 · Mixed
- Everyday amenities
- 621 m
- On average from a typical home to the nearest grocery, pharmacy, gym and kindergarten.
- 64/100 · Good
Examples nearby
- Grocery: Joker Stabekk · 39 m away
- Pharmacy: Vitusapotek Fornebuporten · 229 m away
- Fitness: Datum Arena · 482 m away
- Kindergarten: Læringsverkstedet Lysaker idrettsbarnehage · 208 m away
- Restaurant/café: Pinerolo · 308 m away
Nature, quiet and safety
What is it like to be outside here?
- Forest and large nature areas
- 5 km
- From a typical home to the nearest forest or large natural area (50 hectares or more).
- 0/100 · Very weak
- The fjord
- 860 m
- From a typical home to the fjord.
- 66/100 · Good
- Road and rail noise
- Fairly quiet
- Mapped road and rail noise (levels from 55 dB). 100 means no mapped noise, 0 is very noisy.
- 75/100 · Good
- Perceived safety
- 8.7 out of 10
- How safe residents say they feel in their neighborhood (Oslo health survey 2024 and Akershus health survey 2025, municipality figure). In Akershus it's one municipality number, not a neighborhood measure.
- 87/100 · Very good
Buildings
What does the area look like?
- Older buildings
- about 55
- Registered buildings from before 1900 (SEFRAK) within 750 m of a typical home.
- Some
- Newer homes
- 25%
- Share of homes completed since 2010.
- Some
How Lysaker came to be
The area is named after the Lysaker farm.1 Around 1900, a group of artists and scientists, the Lysaker Circle, lived in villas at Lysaker.2
Lysaker station opened in 1872 with the Drammen line.3 According to the Store Norske Leksikon, several office and business buildings went up in the area after Fornebu Airport closed in 1998.4
According to Lokalhistoriewiki, the buildings at Lysaker Brygge went up in 2003, and in 1980, the old center disappeared under the new Drammensveien.5
Sources and method
Sources for the local history
- Confirmed by several sources: Store norske leksikon: Lysaker, lokalhistoriewiki.no: Lysaker (Bærum). ↑
- Confirmed by several sources: Store norske leksikon: Lysaker, lokalhistoriewiki.no: Lysaker (Bærum). ↑
- Confirmed by several sources: Store norske leksikon: Lysaker, lokalhistoriewiki.no: Lysaker (Bærum). ↑
- One source: Store norske leksikon: Lysaker. ↑
- One source: lokalhistoriewiki.no: Lysaker (Bærum). ↑
Updated October 10, 2026 · Written with AI assistance and reviewed by Stedsvalg.
How this page is calculated
This page groups Stedsvalg cells that share the same officially derived place name. Figures are population-weighted typical values, not observations at every home. The cell grouping is an analysis basis, not a claim about an official neighborhood boundary.
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