Ronneby Municipality

Municipality in Blekinge County, Sweden

Ronneby Municipality Ronneby kommun
Municipality
Ronneby Train Station
Coat of arms

Coordinates: 56°12′N 15°17′E / 56.200°N 15.283°E / 56.200; 15.283
Country	Sweden
County	Blekinge County
Seat	Ronneby
Area ^[1]
• Total	1,241.85 km² (479.48 sq mi)
• Land	825.34 km² (318.67 sq mi)
• Water	416.51 km² (160.82 sq mi)
	Area as of 1 January 2014.
Population (31 December 2023)^[2]
• Total	29,021
• Density	23/km² (61/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Blekinge
Municipal code	1081
Website	www.ronneby.se

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

The present municipality was created in 1967 through the amalgamation of the City of Ronneby with three surrounding units.

Localities

There are 8 urban areas (also called a Tätort or locality) in Ronneby Municipality.

In the table the localities are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2010. The municipal seat is in bold characters.

#	Locality	Population
1	Ronneby	12,029
2	Kallinge	4,561
3	Bräkne-Hoby	1,689
4	Johannishus	748
5	Listerby	883
6	Backaryd	365
7	Eringsboda	299
8	Hallabro	254

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Ronneby 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 29,148 residents, including 21,933 Swedish citizens of voting age.^[3] 42.4 % voted for the left coalition and 56.0 % 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

Backaryd-Öljehult

1,523

1,167

35.8

62.9

20,790

Blekan

1,584

1,233

44.0

54.8

20,377

Bräkne-Hoby

1,438

1,140

39.4

59.7

27,397

Bräkne-Hoby C

1,719

1,336

47.9

50.6

21,139

Centrum

1,715

1,321

45.8

52.6

20,680

Espedalen

1,871

1,128

60.6

36.1

16,142

Fredriksberg

1,636

1,200

42.1

56.8

25,503

Förkärla-Listerby N

1,437

1,138

39.4

60.1

28,624

Hasselstad-Eringsboda

1,349

1,072

30.9

68.3

22,070

Hjortsberga-Edestad

1,623

1,284

37.4

61.8

25,967

Hulta

1,593

1,211

44.1

54.6

28,619

Häggatorp

1,576

1,151

38.8

60.0

21,603

Kalleberga

1,623

1,219

39.4

58.9

23,580

Kallinge

1,753

1,250

43.5

52.9

19,995

Listerby S

922

773

34.9

63.9

27,640

Lugnet

1,707

1,325

41.5

57.4

25,192

Persborg

1,407

1,248

39.7

59.2

26,801

Varan

1,003

810

43.2

55.9

28,165

Älgbacken

1,669

927

59.1

35.1

15,655

Source: SVT^[3]

Parishes

Parishes ordered by hundreds:

Bräkne Hundred
- Bräkne-Hoby Parish
- Öljehult Parish
Medelstad Hundred
- Backaryd Parish
- Edestad Parish
- Eringsboda Parish
- Förkärla Parish
- Hjortsberga Parish
- Listerby Parish
- Ronneby Parish

International relations

Bornholm, Denmark
Mänttä, Finland
Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Germany
Schopfheim, Germany
Høyanger, Norway
Elbląg, Poland
Slavsk, Russia
Enfield, Connecticut, United States
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States

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 Ronneby i riksdagsvalet" (in Swedish). SVT. 11 September 2022. Retrieved 20 January 2024.