Vaxholm Municipality

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Vaxholm Municipality (Template:Langx, semi-officially Template:Lang) is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. The municipal slogan is "Vaxholm – the capital of the archipelago", due to its central location in the archipelago. Its seat is located in the city of Vaxholm.

From 1974 to 1984 Vaxholm was united with Österåker Municipality, making up a municipality called Vaxholm, but with the seat in Åkersberga. After the "divorce" the new Vaxholm Municipality came out larger than it had been before the amalgamation. The municipality prefers to style itself City of Vaxholm.

Geography

The municipality is located within the Stockholm archipelago some Template:Convert north-east of the city of Stockholm. It includes the Bogesundslandet peninsula, along with 64 islands and islets. Principal islands include Edholma, Edlunda, Granholmen, Hästholmen, Kullö, Ramsö, Resarö, Rindö, Risholmen, Skarpö, Skogsön, Stegesund-Hästholmen, Tynningö, Vaxholmen and Vaxön.

The municipality includes five urban areas or localities as defined by Statistics Sweden. These are Resarö, Rindö, Skarpö, Tynningö and Vaxholm. In 2010, Kullö was also considered an urban area, but it has now been redefined as part of the Vaxholm urban area.<ref name=ss2020>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name=scb>Template:Cite web</ref>

Other, less formally defined, places within the municipality include Karlsudd, Template:Ill, Template:Ill and Ytterby. Ytterby is known for its geology, and for the fact that no less than eight chemical elements were first discovered there.

Demography

Population development

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Income and Education

The population in Vaxholm Municipality has the 8th highest median income per capita in Sweden.<ref name="Medianinkomst">Template:Cite web</ref> The share of highly educated persons, according to Statistics Sweden's definition: persons with post-secondary education that is three years or longer, is 36.4% (national average: 27.0%) and the 14th highest in the country.<ref name="Andel högutbildade">Template:Cite web</ref>

2022 by district

This is a demographic table based on Vaxholm 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=VaxholmVal2022>Template:Cite web</ref>

In total there were 11,987 residents, including 9,096 Swedish citizens of voting age.<ref name=VaxholmVal2022/> 41.6% voted for the left coalition and 57.4% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Location

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Vaxholm M

1,866

1,546

47.0

52.4

80

86

14

28,403

53

Vaxholm NO

1,688

1,207

35.5

63.5

87

91

9

42,532

66

Vaxholm N

2,676

1,770

41.2

57.9

87

90

10

40,997

66

Vaxholm SO

1,642

1,430

39.5

59.6

82

88

12

27,646

55

Vaxholm V

2,249

1,629

46.4

52.8

83

77

23

28,973

49

Vaxholm Ö

1,866

1,514

38.4

60.3

83

88

12

31,845

53

Source: SVT<ref name=VaxholmVal2022/>

Residents with a foreign background

On 31 December 2017 the number of people with a foreign background (persons born outside of Sweden or with two parents born outside of Sweden) was 1 599, or 13.52% of the population (11 831 on 31 December 2017). On 31 December 2002 the number of residents with a foreign background was (per the same definition) 1 044, or 10.84% of the population (9 631 on 31 December 2002).<ref>Antal personer efter region, utländsk/svensk bakgrund och år (Read 5 januari 2019)</ref> On 31 December 2017 there were 11 831 residents in Vaxholm, of which 1 285 people (10.86%) were born in a country other than Sweden. Divided by country in the table below - the Nordic countries as well as the 12 most common countries of birth outside of Sweden for Swedish residents have been included, with other countries of birth bundled together by continent by Statistics Sweden.<ref name="Scbfödelseland">Statistiska centralbyrån: Utrikes födda efter län, kommun och födelseland 31 december 2017 (XLS-fil) Läst 5 januari 2019</ref>

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Economy

The municipality has a significant amount of tourism. Ships transporting passengers between the islands began running on a daily basis in the 1850s. Today, many of islands (among them the main island Vaxholm) can also be reached by bridges from the mainland. The tourist boats depart from Stockholm's Slussen.