Stedsvalg data for Greater Oslo
What is it like to live in Bygdøy?
District/municipality: Frogner · 7 analysis cells · 3,705 residents in the cells
In short
Bygdøy suits you best if you prioritize perceived safety and low mapped road and rail noise. It suits you less if you’re looking for proximity to everyday amenities. 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 110,358/m²
- Average price of homes sold in the area (level: sub-district).
- Rent, 2 rooms
- NOK 17,715/month
- Typical market rent for 2 rooms. The figure covers the rent zone Indre by vest, not just this place.
Getting around
How easy is it to get around?
- Public transport
- 15.4 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.
- 69/100 · Good
- Travel time to Oslo S
- 33 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
- about 1
- Number within a 500 m walk of a typical home. Bars and pubs are not counted.
- 68/100 · Good
- Everyday amenities
- 1,087 m
- On average from a typical home to the nearest grocery, pharmacy, gym and kindergarten.
- 48/100 · Mixed
Examples nearby
- Grocery: Spar Bygdøy · 165 m away
- Pharmacy: Boots Skøyen · 373 m away
- Fitness: Bygdøyhus tennishall · 173 m away
- Kindergarten: Bergebo barnehage · 164 m away
- Restaurant/café: Bygdøy Vertshus · 191 m away
Nature, quiet and safety
What is it like to be outside here?
- Forest and large nature areas
- 820 m
- From a typical home to the nearest forest or large natural area (50 hectares or more).
- 77/100 · Good
- The fjord
- 470 m
- From a typical home to the fjord.
- 79/100 · Good
- Road and rail noise
- Quiet
- Mapped road and rail noise (levels from 55 dB). 100 means no mapped noise, 0 is very noisy.
- 85/100 · Very good
- Perceived safety
- 9.2 out of 10
- How safe residents say they feel in their neighborhood (Oslo health survey 2024 and Akershus health survey 2025, sub-district figure). In Akershus it's one municipality number, not a neighborhood measure.
- 92/100 · Very good
Buildings
What does the area look like?
- Older buildings
- about 17
- Registered buildings from before 1900 (SEFRAK) within 750 m of a typical home.
- Few
- Newer homes
- 6.5%
- Share of homes completed since 2010.
- Few
How Bygdøy came to be
According to Lokalhistoriewiki, the governor Christian Rantzau built the main building of Bygdøy kongsgård in 1733 as a summer residence for the royal family.1 Oscar I had the pleasure palace Oscarshall built on Bygdøy.2
The peninsula was called Ladegaardsøen until the 1870s, when the name Bygdøy came back into use.3 Bygdøy has several major museums, including Norsk Folkemuseum, the Kon-Tiki Museum and the Fram Museum.4
According to the Store Norske Leksikon, large parts of Bygdøy, about two-thirds of the island, were protected as a cultural environment in 2012.5
Sources and method
Sources for the local history
- One source: lokalhistoriewiki.no: Bygdøy (Oslo). ↑
- Confirmed by several sources: Store norske leksikon: Bygdøy, lokalhistoriewiki.no: Bygdøy (Oslo). ↑
- Confirmed by several sources: Store norske leksikon: Bygdøy, lokalhistoriewiki.no: Bygdøy (Oslo). ↑
- Confirmed by several sources: Store norske leksikon: Bygdøy, lokalhistoriewiki.no: Bygdøy (Oslo). ↑
- One source: Store norske leksikon: Bygdøy. ↑
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.
Sources and freshness
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