Piteå Municipality

Piteå Municipality Piteå kommun
Municipality
Coat of arms
Coordinates: 65°20′N 21°30′E
Country	Sweden
County	Norrbotten County
Seat	Piteå
Area
• Total	4,680.52 km2 (1,807.16 sq mi)
• Land	3,086.95 km2 (1,191.88 sq mi)
• Water	1,593.57 km2 (615.28 sq mi)
	Area as of 1 January 2014.
Population  (30 June 2025)
• Total	42,308
• Density	13.705/km2 (35.497/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Norrbotten
Municipal code	2581
Website	www.pitea.se

Piteå Municipality (Swedish: Piteå kommun; Finnish: Piitimen kunta) is a municipality in Norrbotten County in northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Piteå.

Localities

There are 14 localities (or urban areas) in Piteå Municipality:

#	Locality	Population
1	Piteå	22,650
2	Bergsviken	2,317
3	Rosvik	1,766
4	Norrfjärden	1,423
5	Hortlax	1,247
6	Roknäs	1,242
7	Jävre	572
8	Lillpite	454
9	Böle	418
10	Hemmingsmark	398
11	Sjulsmark	369
12	Svensbyn	362
13	Blåsmark	332
14	Sikfors	211

The municipal seat in bold

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Piteå 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 42,282 residents, including 33,405 Swedish citizens of voting age. 63.9% voted for the left coalition and 35.0% 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 % % Backen Annelund 1,891 1,444 66.1 33.3 86 90 10 27,146 39 Backen Källbo 1,824 1,603 64.9 33.9 84 89 11 23,899 37 Bergsviken V 1,417 1,078 65.5 33.7 88 95 5 29,339 39 Bergsviken Ö 1,138 910 64.4 34.8 88 96 4 29,878 44 Blåsmark 968 727 70.2 29.3 89 96 4 27,716 33 Djupviken N 2,046 1,608 66.7 32.2 71 88 12 23,353 49 Djupviken S 1,804 1,358 65.8 33.6 87 92 8 30,681 50 Hortlax 2,002 1,507 61.1 38.0 90 96 4 28,773 39 Häggholmen V 1,783 1,583 68.9 30.2 77 88 12 21,053 31 Häggholmen Ö 1,613 1,499 76.8 22.0 65 88 12 18,462 31 Jävre 1,026 807 64.7 34.3 88 95 5 27,839 39 Klubbgärdet 1,466 1,167 59.8 38.8 84 92 8 28,845 39 Munksund N 1,675 1,331 65.6 34.0 81 93 7 26,146 37 Munksund S 1,596 1,289 60.1 39.0 87 92 8 29,291 35 Norrmalm 849 746 68.4 30.6 81 91 9 24,826 39 Pitholm 1,705 1,352 66.4 32.6 86 93 7 31,032 47 Porsnäs V 1,199 879 61.5 36.9 86 92 8 25,800 36 Porsnäs Ö 1,301 1,029 62.5 36.2 91 97 3 29,044 44 Roknäs Lillpite 1,734 1,416 60.1 38.1 82 94 6 24,998 27 Rosvik 2,161 1,592 55.3 43.9 85 90 10 26,408 36 Sjulnäs Böle 1,772 1,313 63.1 35.0 90 97 3 29,512 34 Sjulsmark 1,759 1,372 57.0 40.8 85 95 5 26,567 32 Strömnäs 1,620 1,241 60.7 38.6 84 90 10 29,709 51 Svensbyn 938 738 66.8 32.9 86 97 3 29,726 37 Öjebyn C 1,263 912 66.4 32.2 68 85 15 22,030 26 Öjebyn N 1,948 1,479 64.3 34.7 76 87 13 23,049 30 Öjebyn S 1,784 1,425 66.3 32.8 77 90 10 25,039 28 Source: SVT

Twin towns – sister cities

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

Piteå is twinned with:

• Grindavík, Iceland
• Kandalaksha, Russia (Paused due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine)
• Saint Barthélemy, France

Notable natives

• Lina Andersson, cross-country skier
• Christopher Jacob Boström, philosopher
• Curt Boström, politician
• Moki Cherry, artist
• Nicolai Dunger, artist
• Nils Edén, politician
• Tomas Holmström, ice hockey player
• Niklas Jonsson, cross-country skier
• Liza Marklund, author
• Peter Mattei, opera singer
• Stefan Persson, ice hockey player
• Mikael Renberg, ice hockey player
• Daniel Solander, botanist
• Mattias Öhlund, ice hockey player

See also

• List of islands of the Piteå archipelago
• Gråträsk

External links

• Piteå Municipality – Official site