The 0.35-square-kilometre (86-acre) village has a population (2018) of 460 and a population density of 1,314 inhabitants per square kilometre (3,400/sq mi).
History
In the early Viking Age, according to the Sagas, Mære was one of the most important religious ceremonial places, with sacrifices to the Norse gods. Under the medieval church at Mære, traces of preceding heathen hof were found in archeological investigations during the 1960s, the only case in Norway so far of a pre-Christian building being found to have existed on the site of a church.