As of 1 January 2012[update] there were 16,833 Russians in Norway, of whom 14,953 were first generation immigrants while 1,880 were Norwegian-born descendants.

4,137 Russians lives in Oslo, but fewer than 1,000 in other cities such as Bergen, Trondheim, and Stavanger.

[5] Compared to other migration groups from Eastern Europe, Russians had a lower proportion of perpetrators of criminal offences then migrants from Kosovo (131.5 and 113.0 after age and gender adjustment) and migrants from Lithuania (95.6 and 72.8 after age and gender adjustment).

[5] Many Russian women have come to Norway to marry Norwegian men with no immigrant background.

This makes Russians the only immigrant group in Norway in which more women are employed than men.