Mölndal Municipality

Mölndal Municipality (Mölndals kommun or Mölndals stad) is a municipality in Västra Götaland in western Sweden, just south of Gothenburg. Its seat is located in Mölndal, which lies within the Gothenburg urban area, and the whole municipality is part of Metropolitan Gothenburg.

Mölndal Municipality Mölndals kommun
Municipality
Mölndal City Hall
Coat of arms
Coordinates: 57°42′N 11°58′E
Country	Sweden
County	Västra Götaland County
Seat	Mölndal
Area
• Total	152.28 km2 (58.80 sq mi)
• Land	145.84 km2 (56.31 sq mi)
• Water	6.44 km2 (2.49 sq mi)
	Area as of 1 January 2014.
Population  (December 31, 2019)[1]
• Total	69,364
• Density	460/km2 (1,200/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Västergötland and Halland
Municipal code	1481
Website	www.molndal.se
Density is calculated using land area only.

In 1911 a municipalsamhälle (a kind of borough within a rural municipality, handling matters of urban character) named Mölndal was instituted in the municipality of Fässberg. In 1922 Fässberg was made the City of Mölndal. In 1971 it was amalgamated with Kållered and Lindome (the latter transferred from Halland County). At the same time it became a municipality of unitary type, like all others in the country. The municipality prefers, however, to style itself Mölndals stad (City of Mölndal) as a semi-official name whenever legally possible. This usage has no effect on the status of the municipality.

Localities

The municipality has four main parts: Mölndal, Kållered, Lindome and Hällesåker.

• Mölndal has 37,131 inhabitants (a part of the contiguous Gothenburg urban area)
• Kållered has 7,257 inhabitants
• Lindome has 13,364 inhabitants
• Hällesåker has 900 inhabitants

Numbers from 2003.

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Mölndal 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 69,838 residents, including 51,607 Swedish citizens of voting age. 48.5% voted for the left coalition and 50.1% 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 % % Almås 1,675 1,222 50.5 48.2 79 74 26 27,269 45 Balltorp V 2,112 1,477 40.3 57.7 83 72 28 31,212 45 Balltorp Ö 1,375 925 49.7 47.9 76 61 39 26,244 44 Bosgården N 1,318 1,003 47.4 50.7 84 67 33 28,782 62 Bosgården S 1,419 1,158 54.1 44.0 78 74 26 25,946 55 Brattås N 1,829 1,362 47.3 50.2 76 59 41 24,639 39 Brattås S 1,861 1,343 53.4 45.5 87 75 25 30,345 57 Broslätt V 1,333 1,027 50.0 48.6 75 73 27 25,519 52 Broslätt Ö 1,694 1,418 52.8 45.1 84 65 35 27,486 55 Ekhaga 1,229 919 48.6 49.7 79 70 30 29,434 63 Eklanda V 1,796 1,147 45.4 54.4 85 79 21 35,017 63 Eklanda Ö 1,895 1,140 51.7 47.7 91 83 17 41,497 77 Fässberg V 1,344 1,052 55.4 42.9 83 72 28 27,074 55 Fässberg Ö 1,348 1,037 52.0 46.8 79 72 28 27,513 56 Glasberget N 1,413 1,070 57.6 40.8 86 90 10 33,334 64 Glasberget S 1,439 1,054 53.5 45.8 83 83 17 29,662 55 Hallen N 1,306 964 44.1 54.7 87 77 23 31,107 59 Hallen S 1,494 1,029 43.3 55.1 84 77 23 30,306 51 Hällesåker 1,875 1,409 35.7 63.1 87 87 13 30,074 35 Krokslätt N 1,160 935 49.5 48.8 81 68 32 30,527 63 Krokslätt S 1,477 1,142 52.7 45.9 86 68 32 29,764 60 Kvarnbyn N 1,314 967 51.8 47.0 78 72 28 27,358 57 Kvarnbyn S 1,722 1,333 47.7 51.3 87 74 26 33,085 63 Lackarebäck N 1,586 1,169 46.1 53.5 85 83 17 38,467 77 Lackarebäck S 1,737 1,306 50.5 48.7 88 87 13 37,074 73 Rävekärr N 1,677 1,192 50.6 48.7 80 75 25 32,515 61 Rävekärr S 1,641 1,168 49.9 49.0 79 69 31 27,291 48 Sinntorp N 1,672 1,283 43.1 56.0 87 86 14 30,349 49 Sinntorp V 1,292 957 47.5 51.0 86 81 19 29,888 50 Sinntorp Ö 1,651 1,248 44.2 55.1 85 86 14 30,274 46 Skånhälla Bräcka 1,363 1,064 43.8 55.1 86 83 17 32,349 58 Skånhälla Fågelsten 1,531 1,008 43.6 55.1 87 85 15 31,933 55 Skånhälla V 1,514 1,095 38.4 59.8 88 86 14 33,080 52 Stadshuset N 1,314 1,156 47.5 50.9 85 74 26 30,573 60 Stadshuset S 1,416 1,053 53.3 46.4 79 65 35 26,012 58 Stallbacken V 1,293 937 42.1 56.9 87 71 29 33,282 61 Stallbacken Ö 1,176 867 42.9 55.8 87 67 33 31,744 57 Stretered 1,922 1,320 47.1 52.5 88 80 20 34,287 58 Sörgården V 1,479 1,233 51.5 46.8 77 77 23 30,032 74 Sörgården Ö 1,388 976 51.3 47.7 82 79 21 35,816 74 Toltorp N 1,533 1,068 46.4 52.4 83 78 22 37,942 79 Toltorp S 1,453 881 52.1 46.7 83 77 23 32,592 76 Valås 1,487 1,109 48.3 50.6 89 83 17 31,134 59 Västerberg 1,569 1,414 56.4 40.6 76 58 42 24,492 52 Åby V 1,419 1,085 51.3 47.2 80 59 41 26,294 47 Åby Ö 1,300 885 53.8 42.6 82 65 35 27,086 45 Source: SVT

Sights of interest

• Gunnebo House from the 18th century.
• Fässberg Church from the 19th century

Notable residents

• Lars Leksell (1907–1986), physician and neurosurgeon

Sister cities

As of September 2023, Mölndal has no twin cities.

See also

• Eklanda
• Forsåker

External links

• Media related to Mölndal Municipality at Wikimedia Commons
• Mölndal Municipality – Official site
• (in Swedish) Article Mölndal – From Nordisk Familjebok