Tidaholm Municipality

Municipality in Västra Götaland County, Sweden

Tidaholm Municipality Tidaholms kommun
Municipality
Tidaholm town hall
Coat of arms

Coordinates: 58°11′N 13°57′E / 58.183°N 13.950°E / 58.183; 13.950
Country	Sweden
County	Västra Götaland County
Seat	Tidaholm
Area ^[1]
• Total	522.95 km² (201.91 sq mi)
• Land	518.06 km² (200.02 sq mi)
• Water	4.89 km² (1.89 sq mi)
	Area as of 1 January 2014.
Population (31 December 2023)^[2]
• Total	12,839
• Density	25/km² (64/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Västergötland
Municipal code	1498
Website	www.tidaholm.se

Tidaholm Municipality (Tidaholms kommun) is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Tidaholm.

The municipality is located on the banks of the river Tidan.

In the early 1970s a nationwide local government reform was carried out in Sweden. Urban and rural areas were merged into larger unitary municipalities. The former City of Tidaholm (instituted in 1910) was in 1974 amalgamated with the surrounding rural municipality Hökensås and parts of Dimbo and Fröjered. The number of original entities (as of 1863) within the present municipality is 20.

Many well-preserved medieval churches stand in the municipality. Some church sites also contain examples of early Scandinavian runestones.

Example of a medieval Swedish church in the Tidaholm area.

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Tidaholm 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 12,810 inhabitants, including 9,966 Swedish citizens of voting age.^[3] 46.9% voted for the left coalition and 52.0% 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

Dimbo

1,828

1,404

40.3

58.7

25,353

Hökensås N

2,072

1,576

44.8

54.3

27,779

Hökensås SV

1,830

1,443

35.8

62.9

25,998

Tidaholm Inner

1,923

1,501

51.2

47.4

20,955

Tidaholm N

1,703

1,304

51.4

47.8

25,458

Tidaholm V

1,614

1,345

54.1

45.7

23,393

Tidaholm Ö

1,840

1,393

52.0

46.4

22,558

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 Tidaholm i riksdagsvalet" (in Swedish). SVT. 11 September 2022. Retrieved 1 January 2024.