Filipstad Municipality
Municipality in Värmland County, Sweden From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Filipstad Municipality (Filipstads kommun) is a municipality in Värmland County in west central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Filipstad.
Filipstad Municipality
Filipstads kommun | |
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| Coordinates: 59°43′N 14°10′E | |
| Country | Sweden |
| County | Värmland County |
| Seat | Filipstad |
| Area | |
• Total | 1,711.71 km2 (660.89 sq mi) |
| • Land | 1,534.03 km2 (592.29 sq mi) |
| • Water | 177.68 km2 (68.60 sq mi) |
| Area as of 1 January 2014. | |
| Population (31 December 2024)[2] | |
• Total | 9,776 |
| • Density | 5.7/km2 (15/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| ISO 3166 code | SE |
| Province | Värmland and Dalarna |
| Municipal code | 1782 |
| Website | www.filipstad.se |
The present municipality was created in 1971 when the City of Filipstad was merged with the rural municipalities of Kroppa, Rämmen and Värmlandsberg.
Localities
With at least 200 inhabitants:
Demographics
Summarize
Perspective
This is a demographic table based on Filipstad Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.[3]
In total there were 10,387 residents with 7,763 Swedish citizen adults eligible to vote.[3] The political demographics were 46.5% for the left bloc and 52.3% for the right bloc.[3] Filipstad is generally a low-income municipality, with low attainment of university degrees and about 22% were of foreign background.[3] Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.
| Location | Residents | Citizen adults |
Left vote | Right vote | Employed | Swedish parents |
Foreign heritage |
Income SEK |
Degree |
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| % | % | ||||||||
| Brattfors | 464 | 367 | 39.6 | 57.8 | 86 | 93 | 7 | 23,622 | 20 |
| Filipstads N | 1,734 | 1,341 | 49.1 | 49.8 | 71 | 84 | 16 | 21,432 | 21 |
| Filipstads S | 1,751 | 1,250 | 44.8 | 54.4 | 72 | 74 | 26 | 22,890 | 20 |
| Filipstads V-C | 1,680 | 1,220 | 51.7 | 47.3 | 61 | 62 | 38 | 17,035 | 16 |
| Filipstads Ö | 1,638 | 1,221 | 41.5 | 57.8 | 77 | 81 | 19 | 23,520 | 22 |
| Kroppa | 887 | 688 | 45.0 | 53.1 | 68 | 78 | 22 | 19,462 | 17 |
| Långban-Gåsborn | 385 | 298 | 44.8 | 53.6 | 78 | 89 | 11 | 22,088 | 23 |
| Nordmark | 423 | 296 | 44.6 | 54.1 | 80 | 86 | 14 | 23,862 | 32 |
| Persberg | 436 | 332 | 39.6 | 58.5 | 75 | 84 | 16 | 23,129 | 24 |
| Rämmen | 988 | 750 | 54.3 | 44.4 | 76 | 80 | 20 | 20,115 | 17 |
| Source: SVT[3] | |||||||||
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