Tumba, Sweden

Place in Södermanland, Sweden

59°12′N 17°49′E / 59.200°N 17.817°E / 59.200; 17.817CountrySwedenProvinceSödermanlandCountyStockholm CountyMunicipalityBotkyrka Municipality
and Salem MunicipalityArea

^[1]

• Total17.74 km² (6.85 sq mi)Population

(31 December 2010)^[1]

• Total37,852 • Density2,134/km² (5,530/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+1 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

Tumba is a bimunicipal locality and the seat of Botkyrka Municipality in Stockholm County, Sweden with 37,852 inhabitants in 2010.^[1] A part of its statistical urban area, called Rönninge, is in Salem Municipality. The population is 35,311 (2005). The Swedish krona banknotes are printed by Crane AB at Tumba Bruk, in Tumba. Tumba is situated half-way between Stockholm and Södertälje and is considered a Stockholm suburb. In Tumba and Rönninge there are stations on the Stockholm commuter rail network.

Tumba also has a High School (Tumba gymnasium) with almost 1.000 students. The Alfa Laval company was founded in Tumba by Gustaf de Laval and remains in the suburb, as does DeLaval, split from Alfa Laval in 1991. Tumba is diverse, with high-rise apartment buildings and single-family houses. Tumba also has a shopping mall, Tumba Centrum, near the railway station.

The melodic death metal band Amon Amarth is from Tumba.

History

What makes Tumba different from the communities in northern Botkyrka is that it doesn’t stem from a big farm with historic roots. The people of prehistory preferred to live close to the shores. Tumba was an inland country. That’s why traces of human activity during prehistory are relatively rare. The big change took place during 1755 when the bank of Sweden bought a small farm and started a paper mill. Around the paper mill came a community that developed with its own school and houses for the workers to live in. The next big step was taken when the railroad came in 1860. Soon afterwards a society started to grow around the station house. This society had commerce, police, and a movie theatre. A few houses from that period are still left. In 1894 ‘Separator’ (DeLaval) bought Hamra gård and transformed it into a farm specialized in milk processing. It soon became a big industry. From the beginning these three parts were separate but grew together. The communities of both the papermill and Hamra are well kept.^[2]

Districts

Vretarna
Tuna
Nackdala
Tumba park
Tumba centrum
Storvreten
Lövholmen
Skäcklinge
Kassmyra
Broängen
Solbo
Tumba villastad
Segersjö
Uttran

Demographics


Municipality	Population in Tumba
Botkyrka Municipality	21,140
Salem Municipality	14,171
Total	35,311

Sports

The following sports clubs are located in Tumba:

Notable people

Anna Christensen (1936-2001), Swedish professor and columnist

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tumba.

^ ^a ^b ^c "Tätorternas landareal, folkmängd och invånare per km² 2005 och 2010" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. 14 December 2011. Archived from the original on 27 January 2012. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
^ http://www.botkyrka.se/kulturguiden/summaries/37260.html^{[permanent dead link]}

Localities in Botkyrka Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden

Localities:

Norra Riksten
Sibble
Stockholm urban area (part of)
Tumba (part of) (seat)
Vårsta

Smaller localities:

Other settlements:

v t e Localities in Salem Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden
Localities	Tumba (part of)

v t e Municipalities and seats of Stockholm County
Municipalities	Botkyrka Danderyd Ekerö Haninge Huddinge Järfälla Lidingö Nacka Norrtälje Nykvarn Nynäshamn Österåker Salem Sigtuna Södertälje Sollentuna Solna Stockholm Sundbyberg Täby Tyresö Upplands-Bro Upplands Väsby Vallentuna Värmdö Vaxholm
Municipal seats	Åkersberga Danderyd (Djursholm) Ekerö Gustavsberg Handen Huddinge Järfälla (Jakobsberg) Kungsängen Lidingö Märsta Nacka Norrtälje Nykvarn Nynäshamn Salem Södertälje Sollentuna Solna (Skytteholm) Stockholm Sundbyberg Täby Tyresö (Bollmora) Tumba Upplands Väsby Vallentuna Vaxholm
Counties of Sweden Sweden

50 most populous urban areas of Sweden

1.	Stockholm	1,617,407 (2020)
2.	Gothenburg	607,882 (2020)
3.	Malmö	325,069 (2020)
4.	Uppsala	166,698 (2020)
5.	Upplands Väsby	149,701 (2020)
6.	Västerås	128,660 (2020)
7.	Örebro	126,604 (2020)
8.	Linköping	115,682 (2020)
9.	Helsingborg	113,828 (2020)
10.	Jönköping	100,579 (2020)

11.	Norrköping	98,088 (2020)
12.	Lund	94,393 (2020)
13.	Umeå	91,916 (2020)
14.	Gävle	79,004 (2020)
15.	Södertälje	76,320 (2020)
16.	Borås	74,042 (2020)
17.	Halmstad	71,422 (2020)
18.	Växjö	71,282 (2020)
19.	Eskilstuna	69,948 (2020)
20.	Karlstad	67,122 (2020)

21.	Sundsvall	58,813 (2020)
22.	Östersund	52,980 (2020)
23.	Trollhättan	50,502 (2020)
24.	Luleå	49,123 (2020)
25.	North-east Gothenburg	47,211 (2020)
26.	Tumba	46,014 (2020)
27.	Lidingö	44,091 (2020)
28.	Borlänge	44,898 (2020)
29.	Kalmar	41,852 (2020)
30.	Kristianstad	41,299 (2020)

31.	Skövde	39,580 (2020)
32.	Karlskrona	36,904 (2020)
33.	Falun	39,492 (2020)
34.	Skellefteå	36,388 (2020)
35.	Varberg	36,327 (demographic balance, 2020)
36.	Uddevalla	35,916 (2020)
37.	Åkersberga	35,747 (2020)
38.	Nyköping	38,780 (2020)
39.	Landskrona	33,466 (2020)
40.	Örnsköldsvik	33,348 (2020)

41.	Vallentuna	33,336 (2020)
42.	Motala	31,340 (2020)
43.	Trelleborg	30,808 (2020)
44.	Ängelholm	29,490 (2020)
45.	Märsta	29,815 (2020)
46.	Falkenberg	28,747 (2020)
47.	Lerum	28,520 (2020)
48.	Alingsås	27,433 (2020)
49.	Karlskoga	27,360 (2020)
50.	Kungälv	26,960 (2020)