Nurmijärvi

Nurmijärvi is a municipality in Uusimaa. Nurmijärvi is a suburban municipality, around 30 km north of Helsinki, made up of urban areas and villages.

Understand


Nurmijärvi is a rural municipality with a long history, when the earliest documentary mention of Nurmijärvi dates back to 1488. An administrative municipality was officially founded in 1775, and it formerly included the town of Hyvinkää. A former lake next to the church village that gave the municipality its name, was partially drained in the 1920s and completely drained in the 1950s for farmland. Nurmijärvi was once home of the first pharmaceutical factory of Finland, founded in 1899 by pharmacist Albin Koponen (1858–1917), the main products of which were filizine extracted from male fern root rhizomes, sold as fish tapeworm, and Cestoda medicines called Filisin and Filicon.

The population of the municipality is some 45,000 inhabitants (2021), and in recent decades, Nurmijärvi has been one of the fastest growing municipalities of Finland. Nurmijärvi has become popular with families moving out from Helsinki to single-family homes in the urban areas and countryside.

The administrative centre is the urban area of Nurmijärvi, but the largest urban area is the southern town of Klaukkala (Swedish: Klövskog) near the border to Vantaa and Espoo, with about 20,000 inhabitants, continuous with the Helsinki urban area. Rajamäki is the municipality's third largest and northernmost significant settlement, near the border to Hyvinkää. The fourth largest settlement, Röykkä, is near the Vihti border in the northwestern part of the municipality.

Get in
From Helsinki and Vantaa, you can get to Nurmijärvi along Highway 3 (E12) in the direction of Hämeenlinna and Tampere. From Hyvinkää, you can get to Nurmijärvi along Highway 25 in the direction of Hanko. You can also get to Nurmijärvi from Tuusula along Highway 45 via Nukari or along regional road 139 via Palojoki, and from the direction of Loppi and Karkkila along regional road 132 via Röykkä and Perttula.

By bus
Korsisaari operates bus routes from Helsinki and Hyvinkää via both and. To get to Klaukkala by coaches between Tampere and Helsinki, use the highway stop Klaukkala liittymä 11. The is located in the Viirinlaakso area, the southern part of Klaukkala.

By train
As of 2024, there is no railway passenger traffic in the municipal area. Looking from Klaukkala, the closest passenger traffic point is on the Vantaa side. This works along the Ring Rail Line, from which there is a connection to. From Kivistö station, you have to continue to the Nurmijärvi side by bus or taxi.

Get around
Get around by local bus, car, bike, or on foot.

Korsisaari's services include Kivenkyyti, which does not have a predetermined route or schedule, but operates based on the orders of ride customers. The service is only available in the municipal area.

Work
In Nurmijärvi, the two most significant industrial areas are and, which are located in the immediate vicinity of Highway 3. In Klaukkala, the industrial area is very close to Valkjärvi and Tiira beach. In Rajamäki, the most important employer has been the (today part of Anora Industrial) since 1888.

Sleep


There's only two hotels in Nurmijärvi, both in the northern part of the municipality.



From Klaukkala, the closest hotel is on the Espoo side in Lahnus.

Go next

 * Hyvinkää
 * Tuusula
 * Vihti
 * Vantaa