Skara Municipality (Skara kommun) is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Skara.
The area of the municipality consists of 16 original local government entities. The municipal reform of 1952 grouped them into four new entities. In 1971 the City of Skara was amalgamated with the rural municipalities to form the present unit.
Localities
Varnhem is renowned for its medieval monastery.
Demographics
This is a demographic table based on Skara 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 18,708 residents, including 14,210 Swedish citizens of voting age.[3] 46.4% voted for the left coalition and 52.4% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | % | ||||||||
| Ardala | 1,724 | 1,334 | 35.9 | 62.7 | 88 | 92 | 8 | 26,494 | 27 |
| Axvall | 1,794 | 1,351 | 42.0 | 56.5 | 80 | 84 | 16 | 25,432 | 40 |
| Centrum | 1,725 | 1,306 | 51.2 | 47.3 | 66 | 63 | 37 | 18,978 | 30 |
| Gällkvist V-Härlunda | 1,883 | 1,435 | 45.7 | 53.3 | 82 | 83 | 17 | 25,619 | 29 |
| Gällkvist Ö | 1,527 | 1,207 | 43.2 | 55.9 | 85 | 87 | 13 | 27,279 | 31 |
| Hindsbo-Händene | 1,670 | 1,237 | 43.8 | 55.7 | 82 | 79 | 21 | 26,082 | 32 |
| Marieberg | 2,197 | 1,593 | 51.4 | 47.2 | 71 | 61 | 39 | 21,976 | 25 |
| Skaraberg-Tveta | 1,999 | 1,557 | 47.3 | 51.8 | 84 | 83 | 17 | 27,649 | 34 |
| Varnhem-Eggby | 2,045 | 1,625 | 49.4 | 49.1 | 89 | 92 | 8 | 28,115 | 49 |
| Västermalm | 2,144 | 1,565 | 51.1 | 47.9 | 71 | 67 | 33 | 21,806 | 39 |
| Source: SVT[3] | |||||||||
See also
References
- ^ "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 Skara i riksdagsvalet" (in Swedish). SVT. 11 September 2022. Retrieved 13 January 2024.
External links
Media related to Skara Municipality at Wikimedia Commons- Skara Municipality - Official site
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