Jönköping Municipality

Jönköping Municipality (Swedish: Jönköpings kommun) is a municipality in Jönköping County, southern Sweden. The city of Jönköping is the municipal seat. The municipality is situated by the southern end of lake Vättern.

Jönköping Municipality Jönköpings kommun
Municipality
Jönköping City Hall
Coat of arms
Coordinates: 57°47′N 14°12′E
Country	Sweden
County	Jönköping County
Seat	Jönköping
Area
• Total	1,925.02 km2 (743.25 sq mi)
• Land	1,480.36 km2 (571.57 sq mi)
• Water	444.66 km2 (171.68 sq mi)
	Area as of 1 January 2014.
Population  (31 December 2023)
• Total	146,161
• Density	76/km2 (200/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Småland
Municipal code	0680
Website	www.jonkoping.se

Historical background

The area of the present municipality consists of more than 20 original municipal entities, among them three former cities. In 1952 the number of units was reduced to 13. The present municipality was created in connection with the nationwide local government reform of 1971.

Localities

There are 17 urban areas (also called a Tätort or locality) in Jönköping Municipality.

In the table the localities are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2015. The municipal seat is in bold characters.

#	Locality	Population	Notes
1	Jönköping	93,797	includes Huskvarna, Hovslätt, Lockebo and Norrahammar
2	Bankeryd	8,506	includes Trånghalla
3	Taberg	4,486	includes Månsarp
4	Tenhult	3,112
5	Gränna	2,726
6	Odensjö	2,646	includes Barnarp
7	Kaxholmen	1,561
8	Lekeryd	788
9	Bottnaryd	717
10	Kortebo	512
11	Skärstad	433
12	Ölmstad	401
13	Örserum	356
14	Tunnerstad	322
15	Öggestorp	238
16	Gissebo	204
17	Ryd	200

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Jönköping 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 107,336 Swedish citizens of voting age. 46.4% voted for the left coalition and 52.3% 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 % % Angerdshestra-Mulseryd 1,242 945 31.6 67.6 87 90 10 26,875 30 Attarp-Sjöåkra 1,813 1,435 50.5 48.5 81 81 19 22,382 37 Backamo 2,035 1,464 40.0 59.0 91 92 8 31,490 53 Barnarp 1,918 1,338 41.7 57.7 86 78 22 29,404 40 Barnarp C 1,766 1,315 40.5 57.9 83 73 27 27,802 35 Bondberget 1,664 1,257 53.3 46.2 85 63 37 27,361 51 Bottnaryd 1,331 959 36.8 61.9 84 85 15 24,706 38 Bymarken 2,058 1,498 42.4 57.1 85 86 14 34,119 67 Bäckalyckan 1,814 1,524 46.9 52.1 79 86 14 26,229 64 Centrum V 1,388 1,197 40.9 57.5 75 77 23 25,236 52 Centrum Ö 1,893 1,597 45.4 52.8 76 74 26 25,206 52 Dunkehalla 2,215 1,688 45.2 54.4 83 87 13 30,951 68 Egnahem-Fagerslätt 2,411 1,639 46.1 53.5 89 86 14 31,368 55 Ekhagen N 1,456 1,066 53.6 45.3 73 52 48 20,919 33 Ekhagen S 1,691 1,147 51.8 46.9 61 52 48 19,666 46 Erik Dahlberg 1,886 1,474 47.7 51.3 72 69 31 23,711 48 Friaredalen 1,591 1,380 46.9 52.0 82 82 18 25,773 48 Gränna N 1,971 1,553 42.7 55.8 78 87 13 22,179 39 Gränna S 1,893 1,542 42.0 57.1 86 88 12 24,781 43 Gräshagen-Torpa 1,844 1,436 47.7 51.4 78 80 20 27,384 52 Hisingstorp-Dalvik 2,074 1,480 44.2 54.9 77 77 23 26,751 61 Hovslätt 1,993 1,406 43.4 55.8 88 88 12 30,783 55 Hovslätt N 1,928 1,404 54.2 44.6 88 83 17 28,557 54 Hovslätt S-Norrahammar 1,964 1,330 44.3 53.9 78 72 28 25,087 35 Huskvarna Bråneryd 1,486 1,020 57.5 41.0 73 47 53 22,689 37 Huskvarna C 1,826 1,498 51.4 46.7 73 67 33 19,755 34 Huskvarna Gråbo 1,909 1,430 50.7 48.3 78 59 41 24,102 42 Huskvarna Smedbyn 1,548 1,078 48.1 50.2 73 54 46 23,237 37 Huskvarna Tormenås 1,919 1,383 53.0 45.6 82 68 32 26,847 43 Kaxholmen 2,316 1,641 42.4 56.6 91 92 8 29,514 53 Kortebo-Åbolid 1,338 995 42.2 56.0 74 66 34 26,067 56 Kungsängen-Ekhagen 1,636 1,221 50.8 48.1 89 61 39 28,837 55 Kålgården V 1,485 1,419 44.2 54.9 83 78 22 28,799 49 Kålgården Ö 1,489 1,341 43.8 55.6 86 76 24 31,246 58 Kättilstorp Haga 2,166 1,682 47.4 51.4 86 84 16 28,278 49 Lekeryd-Järsnäs 2,475 1,871 32.8 66.6 90 96 4 28,305 37 Liljeholmen 1,630 1,339 52.2 46.3 79 70 30 24,687 41 Liljeholmsparken 1,456 1,305 52.4 46.0 80 80 20 26,890 54 Ljungarum 2,227 1,685 52.0 47.1 84 83 17 27,971 45 Mariebo 2,116 1,539 45.4 54.0 87 85 15 31,580 56 Munksjö 1,880 1,646 52.7 46.2 80 80 20 25,142 52 Munksjöstaden 1,303 1,193 37.0 62.0 81 70 30 29,078 61 Månsarp 1,534 1,138 47.1 51.5 87 91 9 27,686 36 Norrahammar C-Flahult 1,986 1,439 45.1 54.0 86 77 23 28,403 45 Norrahammar S 2,049 1,359 47.6 51.5 82 73 27 25,461 36 Norrängen-Brunstorp 2,149 1,698 38.1 60.6 86 74 26 30,334 54 Nyarp 2,018 1,503 42.8 56.1 88 89 11 30,148 60 Petersberg-Jutaholm 1,667 1,188 40.7 58.4 89 84 16 30,528 48 Rosendala 1,741 1,357 46.5 52.0 78 70 30 23,906 40 Rosenlund N 1,396 1,022 43.3 54.9 77 70 30 24,896 46 Rosenlund S 1,478 1,191 51.5 47.6 79 70 30 25,030 45 Råslätt V 2,119 1,253 67.8 24.6 62 18 82 15,740 27 Råslätt Ö 1,941 1,271 65.9 27.8 60 27 73 16,006 26 Råslätt-Lockebo 1,885 888 64.7 28.9 43 21 79 9,972 46 Samset-Sveahäll 1,920 1,226 43.2 55.7 88 77 23 31,298 59 Skänkeberg-Dalvik 2,118 1,575 47.0 51.8 82 80 20 26,954 53 Skärstad-Svarttorp 2,207 1,608 35.6 62.9 88 92 8 27,079 43 Sofia 1,332 1,232 50.5 48.6 75 75 25 21,886 47 Stensholm-Jöransberg 1,957 1,388 43.9 54.5 90 86 14 30,758 50 Söder 1,839 1,608 49.0 49.7 80 82 18 25,477 53 Taberg V 1,626 1,214 41.4 57.5 91 92 8 29,115 43 Taberg Ö 1,774 1,262 42.9 56.5 88 89 11 28,858 39 Tenhult C 1,883 1,355 40.4 59.1 89 91 9 28,699 44 Tenhult N-Öggestorp 1,916 1,337 37.4 62.0 88 91 9 29,179 40 Tenhult S-Ödestugu 1,520 1,095 39.4 59.4 88 92 8 29,036 38 Tokarp 1,668 1,387 53.4 45.0 86 82 18 28,622 49 Torp 1,879 1,361 49.6 50.0 91 90 10 33,218 64 Torpa V 1,631 1,284 51.2 48.3 74 82 18 24,490 60 Torpa Ö 1,396 1,203 48.5 50.9 84 85 15 26,673 49 Trånghalla-Järstorp 2,224 1,646 37.5 61.8 87 88 12 31,664 55 Visingsö 720 593 53.7 44.2 79 93 7 22,073 30 Västra Torget 1,408 1,152 48.9 49.5 67 74 26 18,032 58 Vätterslund 1,348 1,059 38.5 61.1 87 87 13 32,100 66 Vättersnäs 1,681 1,301 44.4 54.4 84 78 22 28,447 52 Ölmstad 2,019 1,465 41.0 58.0 90 95 5 28,426 43 Österängen V 1,865 1,180 64.8 30.0 63 26 74 17,965 31 Österängen Ö 1,888 1,268 62.9 35.0 67 30 70 19,337 36 Öxnehaga C 1,626 1,047 61.4 36.3 65 24 76 18,134 26 Öxnehaga N 1,843 1,424 56.7 41.6 76 37 63 22,579 38 Öxnehaga S 2,085 1,399 56.8 41.3 74 36 64 22,041 34 Source: SVT

Sport

International Floorball Federation was founded in the eastern part of Jönköping, in Huskvarna, 1986.

Twin towns – sister cities

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

Jönköping is twinned with:

• Bodø, Norway
• Kuopio, Finland
• Lääne-Viru County, Estonia
• Svendborg, Denmark
• Tianjin, China

See also

• Municipalities of Sweden
• Swedish National Board of Agriculture
• List of Jönköping Governors

References

• Statistics Sweden

External links

• Jönköping Municipality - Official site
• Coat of arms