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- What it is: an affluent villa hill by the university and Kristiansten fortress, quiet leafy streets mixed with heavy student lodging.
- Who it suits: families who want a house near the centre and the university, and students who want to live by campus, if they can take the hills.
- What it costs: above the city average; no separate figure is published, so we show the Trondheim average of about 56,000 kr per m².
- What people complain about: steep terrain, and student noise near the campus edge.
First impressions
Singsaker is the villa hill above the old town, rising from Bakklandet toward the university at Gløshaugen and the ramparts of Kristiansten fortress. It is a district of large detached houses from the 1880s and the interwar years, leafy and affluent and quiet in its core, with student energy concentrated at the western edge by the Studentersamfundet and the campus.
It is close to the centre and to the university, polished and green, with some of the best city views in Trondheim from its upper streets.
This is Trondheim's classic villa-and-campus hill, and it trades flat convenience for space and a view.
Who lives here, and what the streets look like
Singsaker is two worlds on one hill: established, villa-owning families in the leafy streets, and a large student population in lodging near Gløshaugen and the Studentersamfundet. The villa core is calm and affluent; the campus edge is livelier.
The streetscape is large detached houses and gardens on steep, wooded streets, with the fortress green above and the round red house of the Studentersamfundet at the foot. It is handsome and quiet, and it climbs.
Getting around
Singsaker is walkable but hilly. It is a short walk down to the centre and across to the university at Gløshaugen, but the terrain is genuinely steep, climbing from Bakklandet and Elgeseter up to Kristiansten, which bites in winter ice. Buses run from the Studentersamfundet and campus stops on the Elgeseter corridor, a Metrobuss trunk, and the centre is a short ride or a fifteen-minute walk downhill.
Typical weekday minutes from Studentersamfundet, with the icon showing how. Times via Google Routes API for a typical weekday around 08:00, measured from the neighborhood centre; the icon shows the fastest sensible way (walk, bike, transit or car)., 2026-08.
Daily life
Day to day, Singsaker leans on the campus edge and the centre for its shopping. The neighborhood staple is Bunnpris, by the Studentersamfundet and at Rosenborg, with larger Rema, Kiwi and Coop stores further out along Elgeseter and in town; the villa interior has almost no shops of its own. For food delivery, Foodora and Wolt both cover Trondheim.
Local Places Worth Knowing
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The hilltop 1680s fortress on Singsaker's north edge, open to the public, with wide views over the Nidelva, the cathedral and the fjord.
View on Google MapsA long-running student fast-food spot on Klostergata by the Studentersamfundet and Gløshaugen.
The student café run by Sit on the Gløshaugen campus, a handy everyday stop at the hill's edge.
The neighborhood grocery at Vollabakken, the closest everyday shop to the campus foot of the hill.
View on Google MapsChecked August 2026. Places close and change, so tell us if something here is out of date.
Schools and families
Singsaker suits families who want a house near the centre and the university. It has its own primary school, Singsaker skole, and the nearest lower-secondary is Rosenborg skole, with kindergartens on the villa streets. Norway publishes school results through Udir, but not at a per-district grain, so we do not rate schools here. Trondheim has free school choice, so it is worth checking admission before you sign a lease or purchase.
Kids Friendly. The neighborhood has its own primary school and several kindergartens on quiet residential streets, with green space at the fortress; the caveats are the steep terrain and the dense student lodging near the campus.
Pet Friendly. Leafy villa streets with gardens, the green slopes of Kristiansten fortress and the nearby Kuhaugen hill give easy dog-walking; the national leash rule applies from 1 April to 20 August.
Green space, leisure and eating out
Singsaker's green is the fortress and the hill. The Kristiansten fortress grounds on the north edge give hiking, viewpoints and summer events, and the Kuhaugen hill adds another green lookout. Leisure centres on the Studentersamfundet, the round red house at the foot of the hill, which anchors nightlife, concerts and the biennial UKA festival, with everyday eating at the campus edge and down in Bakklandet's café rows.
What it costs
Singsaker is an affluent villa district, so it prices above the city. No Singsaker-specific sale price is published, so we show the Trondheim city average of about 55 722 NOK / m² (about €5,100 / m²) ≈ $540 / sq ft, and this villa hill runs above it in practice. Rent is set by the market rather than any first-hand system, so no local figure exists; the wider Trondheim two-room market runs around 11 850 NOK / mo (about €1,100 / mo) (SSB, 2025).
Weather and climate
Seasonal averages for Trondheim, one representative month per season. MET Norway 1991-2020 normals (Trondheim-Voll) via Wikipedia climate box.
The honest downsides
Steep, hilly terrain. The whole area climbs the hill toward Kristiansten and Gløshaugen, so walking and cycling are hard work, and winter ice on the slopes makes it worse.
Student-lodging density and thin retail in the core. Blocks near the Studentersamfundet and campus carry a transient population with weekend noise and parking pressure, and the villa interior has almost no shops or cafés of its own, so daily errands mean going down to Elgeseter, Bakklandet or the centre.
Crime and safety
Singsaker reads as a quiet, well-kept residential and student area where the everyday concerns are petty, bike theft, the odd break-in, student party noise, rather than serious crime, and Norway does not publish neighborhood-level crime figures, so there is no local number. Visible rough sleeping or begging is uncommon here and tends to be seen in the central Midtbyen and station area rather than the residential villa streets. The fuller Trondheim picture is on the city safety page.
Is this you?
If you want a house near the centre and the university, with the fortress and the best city views at the top of the street, and you can take the hills, Singsaker is one of Trondheim's most desirable addresses. If you want flat, walkable errands and a lively high street at the door, a central district will suit you better.
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How we put this together. Gathered on the ground by our local field team and written up by the Apraiz research team. Every figure above carries its own source and date. The scores are not computed by the build; walking and transport will use open map and transit data first, then Apraiz's own model. We update prices quarterly, transport and amenities twice a year, and school data when the source publishes.
Sources: Krogsveen prisstatistikk, Statistics Norway (SSB), Leiemarkedsundersøkelsen, Wikipedia, Statistics Norway (SSB), table 08487.
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