Karlskrona Municipality

Municipality in Blekinge County, Sweden

Karlskrona Municipality Karlskrona kommun
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Karlskrona Town Hall
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Coordinates: 56°11′N 15°39′E / 56.183°N 15.650°E / 56.183; 15.650
Country	Sweden
County	Blekinge County
Seat	Karlskrona
Area ^[1]
• Total	3,338.05 km² (1,288.83 sq mi)
• Land	1,042.21 km² (402.40 sq mi)
• Water	2,295.84 km² (886.43 sq mi)
	Area as of 1 January 2014.
Population (31 December 2023)^[2]
• Total	66,420
• Density	20/km² (52/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Blekinge
Municipal code	1080
Website	www.karlskrona.se

Karlskrona Municipality (Karlskrona kommun) is a municipality in Blekinge County in South Sweden in southern Sweden. It borders to Emmaboda Municipality, Torsås Municipality and Ronneby Municipality. The city of Karlskrona is the seat of the municipality.

Like most Swedish municipalities it was created during the municipal reform in the early seventies, combining several earlier local government units of urban and rural type, among them the City of Karlskrona.

Localities

There are 18 urban areas (also called a Tätort or locality) in Karlskrona Municipality.

In the table the localities are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters.

#	Locality	Population
1	Karlskrona	32,606
2	Rödeby	3,356
3	Nättraby	3,053
4	Jämjö	2,596
5	Hasslö	1,643
6	Sturkö	1,293
7	Fridlevstad	697
8	Tving	477
9	Torhamn	473
10	Spjutsbygd	422
11	Fågelmara	398
12	Skavkulla och Skillingenäs	380
13	Holmsjö	347
14	Drottningskär	328
15	Gängletorp	276
16	Kättilsmåla	238
17	Nävragöl	229
18	Brömsebro	213

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Karlskrona 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 66,647 residents, including 50,805 Swedish citizens of voting age.^[3] 45.2 % voted for the left coalition and 53.5 % 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

Aspö

552

507

50.0

48.8

24,315

Bergåsa

1,470

1,061

47.8

50.1

27,261

Fridlevstad

1,450

1,131

34.9

63.6

25,582

Galgamarken

1,722

1,099

52.4

43.2

14,928

Hasslö

1,713

1,374

49.2

50.3

26,147

Hogland

1,382

1,120

44.1

53.6

24,124

Hässlegården

2,045

1,386

48.3

51.4

33,389

Hästö

1,461

1,106

45.8

53.9

35,004

Jämjö N

2,016

1,542

42.6

56.1

24,772

Jämjö S

1,550

1,219

46.4

52.8

24,490

Kristianopel

1,473

1,197

35.9

63.3

24,075

Kronotorp

1,589

1,089

53.0

45.7

23,495

Kungsmarken

2,552

1,183

78.9

17.2

11,101

Kättismåla

1,474

1,158

38.8

60.2

26,645

Lyckeby V

1,669

1,347

52.4

46.1

21,480

Lyckeby Ö

1,903

1,418

47.6

50.9

30,545

Långö-Gräsvik

1,607

1,238

45.2

52.4

20,252

Marieberg

2,139

1,299

57.8

39.8

14,614

Mariedal

1,945

1,497

53.0

45.8

25,641

Möllebacken

1,923

1,649

44.1

55.1

25,558

Nättraby S

2,195

1,529

39.8

59.5

33,151

Nättraby V

1,486

1,112

49.2

49.9

27,676

Nättraby Ö

1,741

1,287

44.1

55.2

32,227

Pantarholmen

2,051

1,708

50.9

47.7

21,358

Ramdala

1,413

1,105

42.1

57.1

27,304

Rosenfeldt

1,728

1,502

45.4

53.0

26,464

Rödeby N

2,139

1,615

41.9

57.0

26,365

Rödeby S

1,799

1,337

46.1

52.6

28,025

Saltö-Björkholmen

1,836

1,570

46.1

52.8

27,595

Sillhövda

1,358

1,076

33.2

65.6

22,120

Spandelstorp

2,199

1,589

44.1

54.9

27,406

Strömsberg

1,293

1,002

38.1

61.4

24,497

Sturkö

1,636

1,371

44.9

53.8

25,815

Torhamn

1,477

1,220

40.2

59.4

24,092

Trossö Ö

1,327

1,170

44.5

54.8

25,915

Trummenäs

1,229

933

37.3

61.9

32,470

Tving

1,241

1,008

34.6

64.4

24,375

Verkö

1,590

1,165

40.0

59.3

32,653

Västerudd

1,650

1,490

45.7

53.1

23,952

Wachtmeister

1,624

1,396

45.5

53.0

24,598

Source: SVT^[3]

Parishes

Parishes ordered by city and hundreds:

Karlskrona
- Karlskrona City Parish
- Royal Karlskrona Admiralty Parish
Eastern Hundred
- Augerum Parish
- Flymen Parish
- Jämjö Parish
- Kristianopel Parish
- Lösen Parish
- Ramdala Parish
- Rödeby Parish
- Sturkö Parish
- Torhamn Parish
- Virserum Parish
Medelstad Hundred
- Aspö Parish
- Fridlevstad Parish
- Hasslö Parish
- Nättraby Parish
- Sillhövda Parish
- Tving Parish
- Hästö

International relations

Twin towns - sister cities

Karlskrona is twinned with:^[4]

Ólafsfjörður, Iceland
Aizpute, Latvia
Gdynia, Poland
Hillerød, Denmark
Horten, Norway
Klaipėda, Lithuania
Loviisa, Finland
Rostock, Germany

Villages

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 Karlskrona i riksdagsvalet" (in Swedish). SVT. 11 September 2022. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
^ "Vänorter och nätverk". karlskrona.se (in Swedish). Karlskrona kommun. Retrieved 2019-11-04.

Statistics Sweden

External links

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Mitt Karlskrona - Swedish Karlskrona city guide
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Municipalities and seats of Blekinge County

Municipalities

Municipal seats

v t e Localities in Karlskrona Municipality, Blekinge County, Sweden
Localities	Drottningskär Fågelmara Fridlevstad Gängletorp Hasslö Holmsjö Jämjö Karlskrona (seat) Kättilsmåla Nättraby Nävragöl Ramdala Rödeby Sjuhalla Skavkulla och Skillingenäs Spjutsbygd Sturkö Torhamn Tving