Sandviken Municipality

Sandviken Municipality (Sandvikens kommun) is a municipality in Gävleborg County, in east central Sweden. The seat is the town of Sandviken.

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Municipality
Sandviken Railway Station
Coat of arms
Coordinates: 60°37′N 16°47′E
Country	Sweden
County	Gävleborg County
Seat	Sandviken
Area
• Total	1,297.07 km2 (500.80 sq mi)
• Land	1,166.4 km2 (450.3 sq mi)
• Water	130.67 km2 (50.45 sq mi)
	Area as of 1 January 2014.
Population  (31 December 2023)
• Total	38,628
• Density	30/km2 (77/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Gästrikland
Municipal code	2181
Website	www.sandviken.se

The present municipality was created in 1971 through the amalgamation of the City of Sandviken (itself instituted in 1943) with a number of surrounding rural municipalities.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms was granted to the then City of Sandviken upon its institution in 1943. The device in the middle is a steam hammer. After the municipality reform of 1971 the arms was taken over by the new, larger, entity.

Name

Sandviken means "sandy bay". There are numerous other places by that name throughout Scandinavia.

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Sandviken 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 29,612 Swedish citizens of voting age resident in the municipality. 50.2% voted for the left coalition and 48.6% 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 % % Barrsätra 1,865 1,445 54.3 44.9 78 76 24 25,756 41 Björksätra 2,633 1,423 62.7 35.2 56 42 58 14,756 21 Gästrike-Hammarby 2,049 1,647 44.4 55.0 75 91 9 21,597 23 Jernvallen N 1,925 1,586 54.2 44.8 86 86 14 27,653 39 Jernvallen S 2,337 1,811 48.5 50.6 84 85 15 29,618 41 Jäderfors-Norrsätra 1,999 1,206 53.3 45.6 68 51 49 19,538 26 Järbo 2,600 2,043 41.9 56.7 83 91 9 25,689 28 Kungsgården-Åshammar 2,528 1,944 39.6 58.9 82 89 11 25,224 23 Murgården 2,542 1,404 66.6 31.6 55 36 64 14,309 19 Sandbacka 2,372 1,866 49.2 49.8 82 82 18 27,126 36 Sandviken C 2,069 1,835 54.5 44.0 72 72 28 22,038 30 Sandviken N 2,529 2,000 50.1 49.1 88 91 9 29,927 45 Stadsparken 1,879 1,655 62.3 36.6 74 78 22 19,961 31 Storvik N 1,672 1,321 48.0 50.7 83 90 10 26,163 32 Säljan 2,229 1,736 46.2 53.0 88 90 10 31,033 42 Vallhov 2,498 1,769 52.9 46.3 80 72 28 25,685 36 Årsunda 2,250 1,872 42.7 56.7 88 94 6 27,414 30 Österfärnebo 1,234 1,049 46.6 51.6 80 92 8 22,467 25 Source: SVT

Sports

Sandviken Municipality was one of the co-arrangers of the 2017 Bandy World Championship, which was held in Göransson Arena, a municipality owned bandy arena in Sandviken.

See also

• Sandvik - engineering company founded in Sandviken

External links

• Media related to Sandviken Municipality at Wikimedia Commons
• Sandviken - Official site