Kleppe is the largest town and administration center in Klepp
municipality on Jæren in Rogaland county. Kleppe is home to 9206 (as
of 1 January 2018) people, including the village of Verdalen, which
Kleppe borders in the west.
Klepp church, wooden church from
1846, is located between the two ridges Kleppevarden and Haugabakka.
Close to the church, in the direction of Kleppevarden, is Jæren Folk
High School. Below the church is Kleppekrossen, which is the center
of the village. In Kleppekrossen there are, among other things,
shops, banks, a doctor's office and the town hall. In the
northeastern part of Kleppe are Klepp Stadium, Kleppe School and
Klepp Youth School. Further in an easterly direction towards the
settlement and the railway station Klepp station is a sports and
swimming hall and gym.
Between Kleppe and Verdalen runs
Fylkesvei 44, which is the most important road connection between
the jær municipalities Klepp, Time and Hå and the urban
municipalities Sandnes and Stavanger in the north, and Sola
northwest via Fylkesvei 510.
Kleppe is, together with most
settlements on Jæren between Nærbø and Randaberg, in enormous
growth. The urban cityscape seen in Stavanger is spreading rapidly
to Jæren, and Nærbø, Kleppe, Verdalen, Bryne, Sola, Sandnes,
Randaberg and Stavanger may within a few years have grown together
into a large urban area which will thus be the country's second
largest.