Statistics Norway — Rental Market Survey 2025 ↗
Official 2025 average monthly rent benchmarks by price zone and number of rooms.
Data period: 2025
Checked: 2026-07-15
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Oslo Rent Affordability Calculator
Compare an Oslo rent with your net income, essential costs and the latest Statistics Norway two-room rent benchmark.
No account requiredYour inputs start emptySource links included
Your scenario
Start with your own numbers.
Nothing is prefilled. Use figures from the job offer, home, institution, route or trip you are actually considering.
Question this tool answers
How much of your net pay would a specific Oslo rent use, and what remains after essentials?
Housing budget
Oslo rent affordability check
Compare rent against estimated monthly net income and essentials before committing to a rental contract.
Your result
Enter your own net income, rent and other essential costs.
Rent affordability depends on the actual contract, deposit, utilities, transport and market conditions. Check current listings before deciding.
Inputs that matter
- Net monthly income
- Actual Oslo rent
- Other unavoidable monthly costs
What it does not prove
It does not include every deposit, electricity or moving cost and cannot judge the quality of a lease.
Best next step
Use the result as a filter, then verify the decision in the detailed guide and current source.
Read the Oslo rent guide →After you calculate
Turn the result into a real decision.
01
Check current listings for your district and household size.
02
Test a higher-rent scenario before relying on one listing.
03
Keep deposit and move-in cash in the relocation planner.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Why are there no example values already filled in?
Example values can make a planning tool look more precise than it is. The fields start empty so the result is based on your own offer, rent, household, route or travel assumptions. Placeholders show the expected format only and are not used in the calculation.
How should I judge the result?
It does not include every deposit, electricity or moving cost and cannot judge the quality of a lease. Use the result to compare scenarios, then verify the relevant current source or detailed guide before making a financial, immigration, study, housing or travel commitment.
How we check this guideSources, boundaries and update checks
- Time-sensitive rules and statistics are linked to primary or official sources where available.
- Planning guidance is kept separate from legal eligibility, live availability and personal financial advice.
- Important dates and source checks are shown so you can re-verify changing information before acting.
Sources
Official and primary references
Open the references if you need to verify a rule, statistic or date before making a decision.
View 2 sources and verification dates
Statistics Norway — Employment and earnings, Q1 2026 ↗
Official quarterly earnings statistics. Average monthly earnings across all industries were NOK 63,630 in Q1 2026.
Data period: Q1 2026
Checked: 2026-08-08
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