Filipstad Municipality

Municipality in Värmland County, Sweden

Filipstad Municipality Filipstads kommun
Municipality

Coat of arms

Coordinates: 59°43′N 14°10′E / 59.717°N 14.167°E / 59.717; 14.167
Country	Sweden
County	Värmland County
Seat	Filipstad
Area ^[1]
• Total	1,711.71 km² (660.89 sq mi)
• Land	1,534.03 km² (592.29 sq mi)
• Water	177.68 km² (68.60 sq mi)
	Area as of 1 January 2014.
Population (31 December 2023)^[2]
• Total	10,034
• Density	5.9/km² (15/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Värmland and Dalarna
Municipal code	1782
Website	www.filipstad.se

Filipstad Municipality (Filipstads kommun) is a municipality in Värmland County in west central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Filipstad.

The present municipality was created in 1971 when the City of Filipstad was merged with the rural municipalities of Kroppa, Rämmen and Värmlandsberg.

Localities

With at least 200 inhabitants:

Filipstad, 6,300 inhabitants (seat)
Lesjöfors, 1,247 inhabitants
Nykroppa, 1,020 inhabitants
Persberg, 350 inhabitants
Nordmark, 250 inhabitants

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Filipstad 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 10,387 residents with 7,763 Swedish citizen adults eligible to vote.^[3] The political demographics were 46.5% for the left bloc and 52.3% for the right bloc.^[3] Filipstad is generally a low-income municipality, with low attainment of university degrees and about 22% were of foreign background.^[3] 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

Brattfors

464

367

39.6

57.8

23,622

Filipstads N

1,734

1,341

49.1

49.8

21,432

Filipstads S

1,751

1,250

44.8

54.4

22,890

Filipstads V-C

1,680

1,220

51.7

47.3

17,035

Filipstads Ö

1,638

1,221

41.5

57.8

23,520

Kroppa

887

688

45.0

53.1

19,462

Långban-Gåsborn

385

298

44.8

53.6

22,088

Nordmark

423

296

44.6

54.1

23,862

Persberg

436

332

39.6

58.5

23,129

Rämmen

988

750

54.3

44.4

20,115

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 ^d ^e "Valresultat 2022 för Filipstad i riksdagsvalet". SVT. 11 September 2022. Retrieved 8 January 2023.