Vimmerby Municipality

Municipality in Kalmar County, Sweden

Vimmerby Municipality Vimmerby kommun
Municipality
Vimmerby City Hall
Coat of arms

Coordinates: 57°40′N 15°51′E / 57.667°N 15.850°E / 57.667; 15.850
Country	Sweden
County	Kalmar County
Seat	Vimmerby
Area ^[1]
• Total	1,219.8 km² (471.0 sq mi)
• Land	1,140.23 km² (440.25 sq mi)
• Water	79.57 km² (30.72 sq mi)
	Area as of 1 January 2014.
Population (31 December 2023)^[2]
• Total	15,461
• Density	13/km² (33/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Småland
Municipal code	0884
Website	www.vimmerby.se

Vimmerby Municipality (Vimmerby kommun) is a municipality in Kalmar County, south-eastern Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Vimmerby.

Stångån is a small river running through the municipality.

The municipality was created by the local government reform of 1971, when the City of Vimmerby was amalgamated with the surrounding rural municipalities to form an entity of unitary type.

Localities

There are 6 urban areas (also called a Tätort or locality) in Vimmerby 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	Vimmerby	7,827
2	Södra Vi	1,197
3	Storebro	977
4	Gullringen	560
5	Frödinge	364
6	Tuna	249

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Vimmerby Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.^[3]

In total there were 15,555 residents, including 12,022 Swedish citizens of voting age.^[3] 46.1% voted for the left coalition and 52.2% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Location

Residents

Citizen
adults

Left vote

Right vote

Employed

Swedish
parents

Foreign
heritage

Income
SEK

Degree

Djursdala

406

315

33.3

65.0

24,225

Frödinge

991

799

44.5

53.9

25,859

Gullringen

749

597

43.6

54.5

24,094

Locknevi

461

360

36.6

60.9

21,999

Rumskulla

730

527

40.4

58.9

24,023

Storebro

1,172

894

42.5

56.3

22,205

Stora Vi

1,541

1,194

46.9

51.2

25,198

Tuna

673

531

47.7

50.8

22,987

Vimmerby 1

1,772

1,483

45.7

52.9

25,550

Vimmerby 2

1,922

1,325

54.6

42.7

20,657

Vimmerby 3

1,886

1,449

45.5

53.6

25,702

Vimmerby 4

1,640

1,272

48.6

23,538

Vimmerby 5

1,612

1,276

46.8

52.3

29,600

Source: SVT^[3]

Sister cities

Sister cities are cities or towns related to one another in size and history.

Fargo, North Dakota, U.S.
Moorhead, Minnesota, U.S.
Skærbæk, Denmark
Kauhava, Finland
Þorlákshöfn, Iceland
Rygge, Norway
Joniškis, Lithuania

References

Statistics Sweden

^ "Statistiska centralbyrån, Kommunarealer den 1 januari 2014" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. 2014-01-01. Archived from the original (Microsoft Excel) on 2016-09-27. Retrieved 2014-04-18.
^ "Folkmängd och befolkningsförändringar - Kvartal 4, 2023" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. February 22, 2024. Retrieved February 22, 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Valresultat 2022 för Vimmerby i riksdagsvalet" (in Swedish). SVT. 11 September 2022. Retrieved 29 January 2024.