Borås Municipality

Borås Municipality (Borås kommun) is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Borås.

Borås Municipality Borås kommun
Municipality
Borås Town Hall
Coat of arms
Coordinates: 57°43′N 12°56′E
Country	Sweden
County	Västra Götaland County
Seat	Borås
Area
• Total	967.54 km2 (373.57 sq mi)
• Land	909.9 km2 (351.3 sq mi)
• Water	57.64 km2 (22.25 sq mi)
	Area as of 1 January 2014.
Population  (31 December 2023)
• Total	114,592
• Density	120/km2 (310/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Västergötland
Municipal code	1490
Website	www.boras.se

In 1971 the City of Borås was made a municipality (kommun) when the unitary type of local government unit was introduced in Sweden. Three years later many surrounding municipalities were amalgamated with Borås. In 1995 the western part was separated, creating Bollebygd Municipality.

In the 1990s the municipal assembly (kommunfullmäktige) decided to use the name ″Borås stad″ or ″City of Borås″ whenever possible, for the whole municipality, including rural areas. This decision is purely nominal and has no effect on the legal status of the municipality.

Localities

• Aplared
• Äspered
• Borås (seat)
• Borgstena
• Bosnäs
• Bredared
• Dalsjöfors
• Dannike
• Fristad
• Frufällan
• Gånghester
• Hedared
• Kinnarumma
• Målsryd
• Rångedala
• Rydboholm
• Sandared
• Sandhult
• Seglora
• Sjömarken
• Tosseryd
• Viskafors

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Borås Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.

In total there were 113,940 residents, including 83,786 Swedish citizens of voting age. 46.2% voted for the left coalition and 52.1% for the right coalition. 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 % % Alideberg-Erikslund 1,094 786 54.1 44.2 75 40 60 22,412 41 Aplared 1,127 909 40.6 58.7 85 87 13 26,582 33 Bergdalen S 1,478 1,188 39.6 59.7 87 87 13 29,681 51 Bergdalen-Liljeberget 899 667 50.1 49.4 80 72 28 25,419 43 Bergsbo-Trandared 782 623 38.5 59.4 81 78 22 25,157 42 Bergsäter-Bergsbo 851 921 39.6 58.2 80 80 20 25,170 44 Boda-Brämhult 1,412 1,068 47.8 51.0 77 50 50 24,760 42 Borgstena-Tämta 1,385 1,082 38.9 59.6 85 87 13 25,352 50 Bosnäs-Viared 1,030 793 38.2 61.0 85 83 17 28,392 38 Bredared 1,270 972 40.9 58.5 89 90 10 29,782 39 Brotorp 1,386 1,112 49.4 49.4 83 71 29 27,154 42 Brämhult-Kärra 1,877 1,333 43.6 55.5 87 74 26 30,595 53 Brämhult-Ön 1,535 1,144 42.3 57.0 87 76 24 29,955 50 Byttorp 1,462 1,268 49.3 49.1 81 79 21 24,668 46 Centrum 641 514 36.3 63.4 84 74 26 28,144 47 Centrum N 1,223 1,026 41.8 57.0 77 71 29 22,993 48 Centrum Ö 1,448 1,234 38.8 60.0 79 71 29 24,787 42 Dalsjöfors V 2,371 1,729 45.8 53.8 87 83 17 27,526 38 Dalsjöfors Ö 2,103 1,498 42.2 56.4 86 86 14 27,406 37 Dammsvedjan-Gässlösa 1,702 1,302 48.5 50.4 85 72 28 27,100 47 Dannike 1,049 773 38.1 60.6 83 87 13 27,002 29 Druvefors V 1,368 1,121 46.3 51.2 79 67 33 27,642 47 Druvefors Ö 1,068 793 50.3 48.2 83 63 37 26,329 43 Ekås-Hestra 1,387 1,019 45.6 53.1 87 85 15 31,485 47 Fristad-Asklanda 1,513 1,065 37.8 61.3 90 87 13 30,783 44 Fristad-Gingri 1,730 1,358 46.1 52.2 83 86 14 22,983 30 Fristad-Kvarbo 1,805 1,427 42.4 56.1 83 85 15 25,749 35 Frufällan-Tosseryd 1,355 994 34.9 64.6 86 77 23 31,251 42 Gånghester 1,788 1,294 43.8 55.1 89 82 18 29,392 44 Göta 1,271 967 54.2 42.1 71 50 50 21,417 33 Göta-Kristineberg 1,456 1,028 54.1 41.5 71 53 47 23,000 38 Göta-Regementet 893 886 45.4 53.0 77 75 25 25,558 36 Hedvigsborg-Kråkered 2,087 1,515 44.1 54.3 81 74 26 26,222 40 Hestra-Byttorp 1,455 1,137 45.4 53.3 81 77 23 25,865 49 Hestra Parkstad 1,453 1,065 52.0 47.4 86 79 21 30,559 59 Hulta V 1,702 1,253 54.7 42.0 75 49 51 22,658 36 Hulta Ö 2,017 1,129 69.7 24.5 65 14 86 17,946 26 Hässleholmen-Bråhult 1,493 1,096 49.1 49.5 83 63 37 27,817 52 Hässleholmen-Distansg. 2,060 788 74.2 22.1 56 13 87 15,022 33 Hässleholmen-Tunnlandsg. 2,074 956 72.2 20.4 59 16 84 15,138 26 Hässleholmen-Våglängdsg. 1,599 848 75.6 16.8 55 14 86 13,132 23 Knalleland-Lundby 705 508 50.9 48.8 64 55 45 16,649 45 Kristineberg 1,654 1,012 58.7 37.9 68 34 66 18,979 35 Lugnet 1,301 1,142 47.7 51.6 78 75 25 23,482 47 Lundaskog-Lyckebo 1,354 959 37.9 61.2 88 74 26 33,019 48 Målsryd 1,172 901 43.8 55.1 84 81 19 27,086 34 Norrby-Billdalsgatan 1,797 872 76.6 11.5 55 8 92 13,481 20 Norrby N 1,187 820 74.9 18.9 58 15 85 15,892 25 Norrby S 1,280 708 67.7 26.1 62 22 78 15,443 32 Norrmalm-Hornsgatan 1,259 1,040 42.5 56.1 83 79 21 27,398 44 Norrmalm-Kype 1,199 956 49.8 48.7 80 69 31 24,272 46 Norrmalm-Nedre 1,330 1,125 46.9 51.5 83 78 22 26,589 48 Norrmalm-Sagavallen 1,240 914 50.3 46.9 83 75 25 27,173 45 Parkstaden-Byttorp 1,240 954 38.5 60.3 81 80 20 27,976 44 Rydboholm 1,166 857 43.4 54.6 84 74 26 26,446 31 Salängen-Villastaden 1,429 1,174 39.8 58.9 81 78 22 28,112 47 Sandared 1,451 1,086 45.5 53.4 85 85 15 24,865 42 Sandared V 1,211 881 38.8 60.7 88 86 14 31,085 49 Sandared Ö 1,193 858 31.9 67.3 89 88 12 32,353 53 Sandhult-Hedared 1,593 1,186 37.2 61.9 87 84 16 27,438 35 Sjöbo-Almenäs 1,194 976 51.3 45.0 73 57 43 22,386 37 Sjöbo-Björksäter 1,131 921 51.9 45.9 72 52 48 20,897 33 Sjöbo-Johannelund 1,069 760 52.1 43.8 69 47 53 19,333 28 Sjöbo-Långesten 1,526 1,019 50.5 47.4 70 42 58 21,250 34 Sjöbo-Nolhaga 1,139 845 58.0 39.4 64 45 55 17,446 29 Sjöbo-Ryda 1,345 1,052 55.2 43.6 71 56 44 19,437 33 Sjömarken N 1,466 1,018 35.3 64.5 89 84 16 32,979 52 Sjömarken S 1,672 1,155 40.1 59.5 86 80 20 31,017 50 Sparsör 1,762 1,283 39.0 59.9 89 86 14 31,193 51 Svaneholm-Seglora 1,700 1,218 45.0 52.8 79 72 28 24,465 30 Svensgärde-Sörmarken 1,742 1,318 47.7 51.4 88 69 31 29,018 50 Trandared S 1,361 1,046 50.2 48.6 77 69 31 23,099 36 Trandared V 1,533 1,180 45.7 52.6 82 73 27 26,532 37 Trandared Ö 1,328 1,093 55.0 42.9 82 71 29 25,678 37 Tullen 1,502 1,204 48.4 50.5 77 71 29 22,762 34 Villastaden 1,115 1,004 38.8 60.3 83 79 21 28,255 42 Viskafors-Fagersberg 1,538 1,108 50.8 48.5 84 76 24 25,525 33 Viskafors-Kinnarumma 1,960 1,445 41.4 57.6 84 79 21 27,417 33 Äspered-Rångedala 1,824 1,354 38.9 60.1 88 91 9 28,476 39 Östermalm 1,573 1,153 41.2 56.9 78 67 33 25,472 45 Source: SVT

Twin towns – sister cities

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Sweden

Borås is twinned with:

• Espelkamp, Germany
• Mikkeli, Finland
• Molde, Norway
• Vejle, Denmark

External links

• Borås Municipality – Official English site