Piteå Municipality

Piteå Municipality (Template:Langx; Template:Langx) 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:<ref>Statistics Sweden as of December 31, 2005</ref>

#	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.<ref name=PiteåVal2022>Template:Cite web</ref>

In total there were 42,282 residents, including 33,405 Swedish citizens of voting age.<ref name=PiteåVal2022/> 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 Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip style="background:Template:Party color;color:#FFFFFF;" | style="background:Template:Party color;color:#FFFFFF;" | % % 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<ref name=PiteåVal2022/>

Twin towns – sister cities

Template:See also Piteå is twinned with:<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

• Template:Flagicon Grindavík, Iceland
• Template:Flagicon Kandalaksha, Russia (Paused due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine)
• Template:Flagicon 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

References

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External links

• Piteå Municipality – Official site