Jar, Norway

Jar, Norway
Village
A view Jar and Ullern
Jar, Norway Location in Akershus
Coordinates: 59°55′N 10°36′E / 59.917°N 10.600°E / 59.917; 10.600
Country	Norway
Region	Østlandet
County	Akershus
District	Asker og Bærum
Municipality	Bærum
Jar farm	1413 (612 years ago)
Residential areas	1923 (102 years ago)
Jar stasjon	1 June 1924 (101 years ago)
Area
• Total	2.795 km2 (1.079 sq mi)
Elevation	84 m (276 ft)
Population  (2025[1])
• Total	7,271
• Density	2,601/km2 (6,740/sq mi)
	Estimate
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Post Code	1358, 1368[2][3]

Jar is a district in the municipality of Bærum, Norway. Its annual population change (2020 - 2025), was 1.1%.

It is served by the Jar rail station on the Kolsås Line.

The name "Jar" comes, like Jæren, from old norse Jaðarr, meaning "edge". It's named this because it's at the edge of the deep valley of Lysakerelven.

• Andreas Prestmo - musician
• Jon Larsen - musician, composer, visual artist, researcher
• Per Frydenlund - musician
• Svein Aarbostad - musician
• Anders Beer Wilse - photographer
• Aleksander Hetland - swimmer
• Aleksander Aamodt Kilde - alpinist

The main school at Jar is Jar skole, opened in 1926. It had 590 students in 2018.^[4]