Filipstad Municipality

Filipstad Municipality (Template:Langx) is a municipality in Värmland County in west central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Filipstad.

The present municipality was created in 1971 when the City of Filipstad was merged with the rural municipalities of Kroppa, Rämmen and Värmlandsberg.

Localities

With at least 200 inhabitants:

• Filipstad, 6,300 inhabitants (seat)
• Lesjöfors, 1,247 inhabitants
• Nykroppa, 1,020 inhabitants
• Persberg, 350 inhabitants
• Nordmark, 250 inhabitants

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Filipstad 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=FilipstadVal2022>Template:Cite web</ref>

In total there were 10,387 residents with 7,763 Swedish citizen adults eligible to vote.<ref name=FilipstadVal2022/> The political demographics were 46.5% for the left bloc and 52.3% for the right bloc.<ref name=FilipstadVal2022/> Filipstad is generally a low-income municipality, with low attainment of university degrees and about 22% were of foreign background.<ref name=FilipstadVal2022/> 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;" | % % Brattfors 464 367 39.6 57.8 86 93 7 23,622 20 Filipstads N 1,734 1,341 49.1 49.8 71 84 16 21,432 21 Filipstads S 1,751 1,250 44.8 54.4 72 74 26 22,890 20 Filipstads V-C 1,680 1,220 51.7 47.3 61 62 38 17,035 16 Filipstads Ö 1,638 1,221 41.5 57.8 77 81 19 23,520 22 Kroppa 887 688 45.0 53.1 68 78 22 19,462 17 Långban-Gåsborn 385 298 44.8 53.6 78 89 11 22,088 23 Nordmark 423 296 44.6 54.1 80 86 14 23,862 32 Persberg 436 332 39.6 58.5 75 84 16 23,129 24 Rämmen 988 750 54.3 44.4 76 80 20 20,115 17 Source: SVT<ref name=FilipstadVal2022/>

External links

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• Filipstad Municipality - Official site
• filipstad.ifolkmun.se - Local news site