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Hylte Municipality

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Hylte Municipality (Template:Langx) is the only inland municipality of Halland County in southwest Sweden. The industrial town Hyltebruk is the seat of the municipality.

The first Hylte Municipality was created in 1952 through the amalgamation of three minor units in Jönköping County. In 1974 further amalgamations took place and the county boundary was redrawn.

Geography

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The municipality straddles the boundary of two historic provinces, Halland and Småland.

Localities

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There are 6 urban areas (also called a Tätort or locality) in Hylte Municipality.

In the table the localities are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters.

# Locality Population
1 Hyltebruk 3,742
2 Torup 1,239
3 Unnaryd 760
4 Rydöbruk 385
5 Landeryd 372
6 Kinnared 297

Demographics

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This is a demographic table based on Hylte 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=HylteVal2022>Template:Cite web</ref>

In total there were 10,590 residents, including 7,442 Swedish citizens of voting age.<ref name=HylteVal2022/> 44.1% voted for the left coalition and 55.0% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

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