Falköping Municipality (Falköpings kommun) is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Falköping.
The present municipality consists of more than 50 original local government units, joined together in two structural reforms carried out in 1952, when the number was reduced to eight, and during the period 1971–1974. In 1971 the former Town of Falköping was made a unitary municipality and three years later amalgamated with the surrounding municipalities.
Localities
The population centres in the municipality include:
- Åsarp
- Åsle
- Falköping (seat)
- Floby
- Gudhem
- Gökhem
- Kinnarp
- Kättilstorp
- Luttra
- Odensberg
- Stenstorp
- Torbjörntorp
- Vartofta
Demographics
This is a demographic table based on Falköping 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 33,225 residents, including 24,879 Swedish citizens of voting age.[3] 45.2% voted for the left coalition and 53.2% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | % | ||||||||
| Bergsliden | 1,636 | 1,157 | 48.1 | 49.4 | 73 | 69 | 31 | 21,435 | 33 |
| Bestorp-Mösseberg | 1,789 | 1,378 | 48.2 | 50.8 | 88 | 92 | 8 | 30,478 | 49 |
| Centrum | 2,667 | 2,080 | 46.8 | 51.9 | 82 | 82 | 18 | 25,939 | 34 |
| Dotorp-Tåstorp | 2,802 | 1,795 | 60.5 | 38.5 | 67 | 54 | 46 | 20,234 | 31 |
| Floby | 1,492 | 1,124 | 39.2 | 59.4 | 71 | 84 | 16 | 21,062 | 20 |
| Fredriksberg | 1,763 | 1,310 | 53.7 | 44.2 | 69 | 62 | 38 | 22,295 | 33 |
| Gudhem-Broddetorp | 1,933 | 1,462 | 42.0 | 56.5 | 87 | 93 | 7 | 27,246 | 36 |
| Kinnarp-Slutarp | 1,557 | 1,170 | 34.9 | 63.4 | 89 | 91 | 9 | 24,869 | 25 |
| Kyrkerör | 2,326 | 1,825 | 48.8 | 49.0 | 75 | 75 | 25 | 22,283 | 31 |
| Odensberg | 1,143 | 878 | 40.6 | 59.1 | 89 | 96 | 4 | 27,002 | 30 |
| Ranten-Grönelund | 1,793 | 1,276 | 53.2 | 43.5 | 67 | 56 | 44 | 19,809 | 27 |
| Stenstorp | 2,056 | 1,553 | 41.9 | 56.0 | 80 | 84 | 16 | 24,791 | 35 |
| Stenstorpsbygden | 1,385 | 1,102 | 39.1 | 60.2 | 89 | 94 | 6 | 27,814 | 34 |
| S Bestorp-Ne Mösseberg | 2,177 | 1,653 | 46.1 | 53.2 | 82 | 90 | 10 | 27,532 | 43 |
| Vartofta | 1,732 | 1,330 | 35.9 | 62.9 | 86 | 94 | 6 | 25,979 | 30 |
| Vilhelmsberg-Åttagård | 1,752 | 1,259 | 56.4 | 41.8 | 75 | 61 | 39 | 23,104 | 29 |
| Vilske | 1,361 | 1,080 | 36.1 | 62.5 | 84 | 93 | 7 | 25,200 | 26 |
| Åsarp-Kättilstorp | 1,861 | 1,447 | 34.0 | 63.7 | 83 | 91 | 9 | 24,621 | 28 |
| Source: SVT[3] | |||||||||
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 Falköping i riksdagsvalet" (in Swedish). SVT. 11 September 2022. Retrieved 8 January 2024.
External links
Media related to Falköping Municipality at Wikimedia Commons- Falköping Municipality - Official site
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