Stabekk is a suburban centre in the municipality of Bærum

Bærum

is a municipality in Akershus county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Sandvika. Bærum was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838. A suburb of Oslo, Bærum is located on the west coast of the city....

, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. Mainly a residential area and have most of the conservative population in Norway (2005) the current population is 6,261.

Former President of the Norwegian parliament and Høyre leader (conservative party) Jo Benkow is born in Stabekk.

Stabekk is located on the west coast of the city, it has the highest income per capita in Norway[2] and the highest proportion of university-educated individuals.[3] Stabekk, particularly its eastern neighbourhoods bordering West End Oslo, is one of Norway's priciest and most fashionable residential areas, leading Stabekk residents to be frequently stereotyped as snobs in Norwegian popular culture.

Stabekk has a commercial district, roughly divided into Øvre (Upper) Stabekk and Nedre (Lower) Stabekk, separated by a hill. There are a number of retail shops in both these sections, and in the lower section is a commuter railroad station served by Drammenbanen

Drammenbanen

The Drammen Line is a railway line between Oslo and Drammen, Norway, which was opened on 7 October 1872. It serves all trains west of Oslo Central Station and is owned by the Norwegian National Rail Administration....

.

Stabekk also has a bandy

Bandy

Bandy is a team winter sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal.The rules of the game have many similarities to those of association football: the game is played on a rectangle of ice the same size as a football field. Each team has 11 players,...

 field, a high school, and a tennis club.

The campus in which the Norwegian Teachers College for Home Economics is now on the architectural registry http://www.baerum.kommune.no/category.php/category/Fredninger/?categoryID=5786.

The football team Stabæk I.F. originates from Stabekk, the name Stabæk being an archaic spelling, but the team has since relocated to Bekkestua

Bekkestua

Bekkestua is a town in the municipality of Bærum, Norway, with a busy bus terminal and a station on one of Oslo's westbound T-bane lines, Kolsåsbanen. It also has its own library, McDonalds, police station and fire station...

. The bandy

Bandy

Bandy is a team winter sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal.The rules of the game have many similarities to those of association football: the game is played on a rectangle of ice the same size as a football field. Each team has 11 players,...

team of Stabæk I.F. is among the absolute best in Norway. Stabekk Håndball is playing in the top-division in Norwegian Handball called Postenligaen.