Jönköping Municipality

Coordinates: 57°47′N 14°12′E / 57.783°N 14.200°E / 57.783; 14.200
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Jönköping Municipality
Jönköpings kommun
Jönköping City Hall
Jönköping City Hall
Municipal code
0680
Websitewww.jonkoping.se

Jönköping Municipality (

city of Jönköping is the municipal seat. The municipality is situated by the southern end of lake Vättern
.

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 [sv
]
200

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Jönköping Municipality's electoral districts in the

SCB official statistics.[3]

In total there were 107,336 Swedish citizens of voting age.[3] 46.4% voted for the left coalition and 52.3% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Sport

International Floorball Federation was founded in the eastern part of Jönköping, in Huskvarna, 1986.[4]

Twin towns – sister cities

Jönköping is twinned with:[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Statistiska centralbyrån, Kommunarealer den 1 januari 2014" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. 2014-01-01. Archived from the original (Microsoft Excel) on 2016-09-27. Retrieved 2014-04-18.
  2. ^ "Folkmängd och befolkningsförändringar - Kvartal 4, 2023" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. February 22, 2024. Retrieved February 22, 2024.
  3. ^
    SVT
    . 11 September 2022. Retrieved 5 January 2024.
  4. ^ IFF Today and History in short
  5. ^ "Vänorter och sistercity" (in Swedish). Jönköpings kommun. Retrieved 2021-09-28.

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