Värnamo Municipality


Värnamo Municipality is a municipality in Jönköping County in southern Sweden, where the town Värnamo is seat.
The municipality was created in 1971, when the City of Värnamo was amalgamated with the surrounding rural municipalities to form an entity of unitary type. There are fourteen original units making up the present municipality.
WWW varnamo.se𝕏 varnamokommunFB varnamokommunYT varnamokommunIG varnamokommunFandom sweden:Värnamo_Municipali...IN varnamo-kommun

Geography

Urban areaPopulationLand area Density
Bor1,3041.68776
Bredaryd1,5372.21695
Dannäs870.25348
Ekenhaga2200.201,081
Forsheda1,4601.70858
Gällaryd760.30250
Hjälshammar920.36260
Horda3630.71515
Hånger2820.45630
Hörle1530.38400
Kärda3330.45745
Lanna3541.08329
Os580.40140
Rydaholm1,6291.73942
Tånnö1830.26700
Värnamo19,82212.141,632
Åminne2190.38574

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Värnamo 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 34,617 inhabitants, including 26,042 Swedish citizens of voting age. 43.6% voted for the left coalition and 55.4% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Governance

Värnamo Municipality has been governed by the Moderate Party, the Centre Party and the Christian Democrats since at least 1994, with the addition of the Liberals in 2002 and the Green Party 2014–2018. The Social Democratic Party has been the largest party every year since the formation of the municipality, with an average of 34 percent of the votes. The Centre Party and the Christian Democrats were unusually strong, and received more than twice as many votes as the national average in the 2018 elections.