Vaxholm Municipality

Vaxholm Municipality 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.

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Geography

The municipality is located within the Stockholm archipelago some 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.
Other, less formally defined, places within the municipality include Karlsudd,, and Ytterby. Ytterby is known for its geology, and for the fact that no less than eight chemical elements were first discovered there.

Demography

Income and Education

The population in Vaxholm Municipality has the 8th highest median income per capita in Sweden. 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% and the 14th highest in the country.

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

Residents with a foreign background

On 31 December 2017 the number of people with a foreign background was 1 599, or 13.52% of the population. On 31 December 2002 the number of residents with a foreign background was 1 044, or 10.84% of the population. On 31 December 2017 there were 11 831 residents in Vaxholm, of which 1 285 people 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.

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 can also be reached by bridges from the mainland. The tourist boats depart from Stockholm's Slussen.