Stedsvalg data for Greater Oslo
What is it like to live in Uranienborg?
District/municipality: Frogner · 1 analysis cell · 8,059 residents in the cells
In short
Uranienborg suits you best if you prioritize food and cafés within walking distance and nearby public transport service. It suits you less if you’re looking for proximity to forest and large nature areas or proximity to the fjord. 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 134,701/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
- 96.5 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.
- 92/100 · Very good
- Travel time to Oslo S
- 17 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 44
- Number within a 500 m walk of a typical home. Bars and pubs are not counted.
- 95/100 · Very good
- Everyday amenities
- 141 m
- On average from a typical home to the nearest grocery, pharmacy, gym and kindergarten.
- 92/100 · Very good
Examples nearby
- Grocery: 7-Eleven Niels Juels gate · 121 m away
- Pharmacy: Apotek 1 Skovveien · 121 m away
- Fitness: Summit · 119 m away
- Kindergarten: Lycee Francais Rene Cassin d'Oslo · 36 m away
- Restaurant/café: Baker Hansen · 48 m away
Nature, quiet and safety
What is it like to be outside here?
- Forest and large nature areas
- 3.3 km
- From a typical home to the nearest forest or large natural area (50 hectares or more).
- 19/100 · Very weak
- The fjord
- 1 km
- From a typical home to the fjord.
- 59/100 · Mixed
- Road and rail noise
- Fairly quiet
- Mapped road and rail noise (levels from 55 dB). 100 means no mapped noise, 0 is very noisy.
- 78/100 · 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, sub-district 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 292
- Registered buildings from before 1900 (SEFRAK) within 750 m of a typical home.
- Many
- Newer homes
- 0%
- Share of homes completed since 2010.
- Almost none
How Uranienborg came to be
The area is named after a plot of land, a løkke, called Uranienborg.1 According to the Store Norske Leksikon, the plot was named after Tycho Brahe’s observatory on the island of Ven.2 Building began in the 1860s, after the area was incorporated into the city in 1859.3
According to Lokalhistoriewiki, the large villas date from the 1800s, most of the rental buildings went up from the 1890s to the 1930s, and only a few buildings have been added since 1945.4 Uranienborg church was consecrated in 1886, with a mosaic and stained glass by Emanuel Vigeland.5
Sources and method
Sources for the local history
- Confirmed by several sources: Store norske leksikon: Uranienborg, lokalhistoriewiki.no: Uranienborg (strøk). ↑
- One source: Store norske leksikon: Uranienborg. ↑
- One source: Store norske leksikon: Uranienborg. ↑
- One source: lokalhistoriewiki.no: Uranienborg (strøk). ↑
- One source: Store norske leksikon: Uranienborg. ↑
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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