It has a population of 662 (as of 2011) and constitutes one of the villages composing the municipality of Fjarðabyggð.
Before the 2011 season he took on 3. deild karla team Leiknir from Fáskrúðsfjörður, guiding them from the lowest division in the 2012 season when a league was added above it, effectively playing in
A transport vessel and a whale catcher arrived on 22 December and brought a decommissioned land station from Fáskrúðsfjörður in Iceland.