Ystad Municipality

Ystad Municipality (Template:Langx) is a municipality in Scania County in southern Sweden. Its seat is the town of Ystad. The present municipality was created in 1971 by the amalgamation of the former City of Ystad with four surrounding municipalities.

Localities

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Ales stone

There were ten localities in the municipality as of 2018.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Ystad 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=YstadVal2022>Template:Cite web</ref>

In total there were 31,531 residents, including 25,215 Swedish citizens of voting age.<ref name=YstadVal2022/> 39.4% voted for the left coalition and 59.5% 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;" | % % Bellevue N 2,075 1,718 39.2 59.5 84 88 12 26,874 42 Bellevue S 1,315 1,088 46.0 53.1 82 87 13 25,074 43 Edvinshem N 1,453 1,229 45.1 54.5 87 91 9 25,068 39 Edvinshem SÖ-Gjuteriet 1,629 1,389 44.6 54.2 80 83 17 22,409 41 Egna hem-Solbacken SÖ 1,245 972 44.7 54.1 88 89 11 28,768 52 Gamla staden V 1,801 1,532 47.7 51.0 75 83 17 21,679 40 Gamla staden Ö 1,861 1,568 42.7 55.9 78 83 17 22,554 39 Glemmingebro-Ingelstorp 1,329 1,030 39.6 59.2 78 84 16 22,646 42 Hälsobacken 1,310 1,052 42.9 56.3 88 87 13 25,887 43 Köpingebro 1,323 940 33.4 65.1 87 88 12 27,175 37 Löderup 1,171 994 39.3 60.2 77 86 14 22,864 39 Nybrostrand-St Köpinge 2,000 1,570 30.0 69.3 84 92 8 28,089 45 Solbacken N 1,589 1,242 40.9 57.1 83 85 15 26,648 42 St Herrestad-Hedskoga 2,221 1,588 33.8 65.2 89 91 9 29,677 43 Surbrunnen-Ö förstaden N 2,159 1,869 41.1 58.2 81 87 13 22,465 37 Svarte-Snårestad 2,193 1,631 37.3 61.9 83 89 11 29,810 50 Sövestad-Baldringe 1,401 1,094 32.7 65.9 87 91 9 27,432 39 V Sjöstaden-Åkerholm 1,804 1,365 33.9 64.8 85 84 16 27,430 44 Ö Förstaden S-Regementet 1,652 1,344 39.4 60.0 71 75 25 22,285 36 Source: SVT<ref name=YstadVal2022/>

International relations

Twin towns — sister cities

Ystad is twinned with:

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External links

• Ystad Municipality - Official site
• Österlen - Official site
• Kurt Wallander English Language site for fans of Henning Mankell's detective series, including information on, and photographs of, Ystad
• Branagh's Wallander - Website relating to the BBC's English language Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh