Stedsvalg data for Greater Oslo
What is it like to live in Vålerenga?
District/municipality: Gamle Oslo · 2 analysis cells · 15,602 residents in the cells
Includes parts of: Galgeberg, Jordal, Kampen
In short
Vålerenga suits you best if you prioritize food and cafés within walking distance and low mapped road and rail noise. It suits you less if you’re looking for proximity to the fjord or proximity to forest and large nature areas. 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 114,772/m²
- Average price of homes sold in the area (level: sub-district).
- Rent, 2 rooms
- NOK 17,397/month
- Typical market rent for 2 rooms. The figure covers the rent zone Indre by øst, not just this place.
Getting around
How easy is it to get around?
- Public transport
- 83.7 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.
- 75/100 · Good
- Travel time to Oslo S
- 16 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 7
- Number within a 500 m walk of a typical home. Bars and pubs are not counted.
- 87/100 · Very good
- Everyday amenities
- 377 m
- On average from a typical home to the nearest grocery, pharmacy, gym and kindergarten.
- 77/100 · Good
Examples nearby
- Grocery: Kiwi Jordal · 99 m away
- Pharmacy: Vitusapotek Kværnerbyen · 150 m away
- Fitness: Brak Buldring · 298 m away
- Kindergarten: Kardemomme barnehage · 19 m away
- Restaurant/café: Café Passabel · 91 m away
Nature, quiet and safety
What is it like to be outside here?
- Forest and large nature areas
- 1.7 km
- From a typical home to the nearest forest or large natural area (50 hectares or more).
- 56/100 · Mixed
- The fjord
- 1.8 km
- From a typical home to the fjord.
- 44/100 · 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 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.
- 80/100 · Good
Buildings
What does the area look like?
- Older buildings
- about 348
- Registered buildings from before 1900 (SEFRAK) within 750 m of a typical home.
- Very many
- Newer homes
- 0.2%
- Share of homes completed since 2010.
- Almost none
How Vålerenga came to be
Vålerenga was built up in the second half of the 1800s, mostly with small wooden houses, and joined Kristiania in the 1878 city expansion.1 The name goes back to the farm Válin. The last part means meadow, and the first part may come from a word for burned ground.2
Vålerenga church was consecrated in 1902, burned in 1979 and was reconsecrated in 1984.3 According to the Store Norske Leksikon, the Vålerenga tram, one of Oslo’s first electric tram lines, opened in 1900.4
According to Lokalhistoriewiki, the sports club Vålerengens Idrettsforening was founded in 1913.5
Sources and method
Sources for the local history
- Confirmed by several sources: Store norske leksikon: Vålerenga (sogn), lokalhistoriewiki.no: Vålerenga (strøk). ↑
- Confirmed by several sources: Store norske leksikon: Vålerenga (sogn), lokalhistoriewiki.no: Vålerenga (strøk). ↑
- Confirmed by several sources: Store norske leksikon: Vålerenga (sogn), lokalhistoriewiki.no: Vålerenga (strøk). ↑
- One source: Store norske leksikon: Vålerenga (sogn). ↑
- One source: lokalhistoriewiki.no: Vålerenga (strøk). ↑
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
- BOL018: Gjennomsnittlig kvadratmeterpris for omsatte boliger: 2025 · sub-district
- BOL014: Markedsleie for leieboliger per byområde: 2024 · regional
- Journey Planner v3 – estimatedCalls: 2026-09-14 · analysis cell
- Friluftslivsområder – kartlagte: 2026-09-11 · analysis cell
- Folkehelseundersøkelsen i Oslo 2024 - delbydelstabeller: 2026-09-12 · sub-district
- SEFRAK-bygninger, BOL001 og BOL008: 2026-10-01 · analysis cell / sub-district
- OpenStreetMap place names: 2026-10-04 · name point