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Key facts
- Country
- Norway
- County
- Buskerud
- District
- Eiker , Lower Buskerud
- Administrative centre
- Hokksund
- Mayor 2023
- Adrian Tollefsen ( Conservative Party )
- Total
- 457 km (176 sq mi)
- Land
- 418 km (161 sq mi)
- Rank
- # 223 in Norway
- Density
- 37/km (96/sq mi)
- Change 10 years
- +4.3%
- Demonym
- Eikværing
- Norwegian form
- Bokmål
- Time zone
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Øvre Eiker is a municipality in Buskerud county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Eiker. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Hokksund. The old municipality of Eiker was divided into Øvre Eiker (upper Eiker) and Nedre Eiker (lower) on 1 July 1885.
As of 2015, more employees worked for the [municipal] government and in the service sector, than in any other field of employment; even fewer—16 %—are employed in construction or in [electrical] power companies and water companies; [13%] work in the manufacturing sector.