Jönköping Municipality


Jönköping Municipality is a municipality in Jönköping County, southern Sweden. The city of Jönköping is the municipal seat. The municipality is situated by the southern end of lake Vättern.
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Historical background

The area of the present municipality consists of more than 20 original municipal entities, among them three former cities. In 1952 the number of units was reduced to 13. The present municipality was created in connection with the nationwide local government reform of 1971.

Localities

There are 17 urban areas in Jönköping Municipality.
In the table the localities are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2015. The municipal seat is in bold characters.
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1Jönköping93,797includes Huskvarna, Hovslätt, Lockebo and Norrahammar
2Bankeryd8,506includes Trånghalla
3Taberg4,486includes Månsarp
4Tenhult3,112
5Gränna2,726
6Odensjö2,646includes Barnarp
7Kaxholmen1,561
8Lekeryd788
9Bottnaryd717
10Kortebo512
11Skärstad433
12Ölmstad401
13Örserum356
14Tunnerstad322
15Öggestorp238
16Gissebo204
17200

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Jönköping Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.
In total there were 107,336 Swedish citizens of voting age. 46.4% voted for the left coalition and 52.3% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Sport

International Floorball Federation was founded in the eastern part of Jönköping, in Huskvarna, 1986.

Twin towns – sister cities

Jönköping is twinned with: