A few small mechanical workshops are in existence, they provide fishing boat repairs and they also service the remaining local industry. A few small aquaculture farms have been established. In the past the population often combined fishing and small scale farming, but this is no longer common. Public services have become increasingly comprehensive in the course of the last 50 years, and today the largest share of employment is found in local administration and in educational and health care services. Communications Loppa has large areas of land, and the climate is hard, cold and often very windy.
Communications are difficult, especially during the winter.
Only in 1986 it became possible to reach the centre of Loppa municipality from the mainland by car. Before that time the boat was the only means of transportation, and it remains important. Small, privately owned boats and the larger coastal ferries are essential for the transportation of goods and people alike.