Ystad Municipality

Municipality in Scania County, Sweden

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Ystad Art Museum
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Coordinates: 55°25′N 13°50′E / 55.417°N 13.833°E / 55.417; 13.833
Country	Sweden
County	Scania County
Seat	Ystad
Area ^[1]
• Total	1,189.32 km² (459.20 sq mi)
• Land	350.08 km² (135.17 sq mi)
• Water	839.24 km² (324.03 sq mi)
	Area as of 1 January 2014.
Population (31 December 2023)^[2]
• Total	31,911
• Density	27/km² (69/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Scania
Municipal code	1286
Website	www.ystad.se

Ystad Municipality (Swedish: Ystads kommun) is a municipality in Scania County in southern Sweden. Its seat is the town of Ystad. The present municipality was created in 1971 by the amalgamation of the former City of Ystad with four surrounding municipalities.

Localities

There were ten localities in the municipality as of 2018.^[3]

Locality	Population
Ystad	19,498
Köpingebro	1,252
Nybrostrand	1,119
Svarte	920
Löderup	642
Glemmingebro	425
Sövestad	367
Stora Herrestad	331
Hedeskoga	262
Rynge och Vallösa	217

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Ystad Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.^[4]

In total there were 31,531 residents, including 25,215 Swedish citizens of voting age.^[4] 39.4% voted for the left coalition and 59.5% 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

Bellevue N

2,075

1,718

39.2

59.5

26,874

Bellevue S

1,315

1,088

46.0

53.1

25,074

Edvinshem N

1,453

1,229

45.1

54.5

25,068

Edvinshem SÖ-Gjuteriet

1,629

1,389

44.6

54.2

22,409

Egna hem-Solbacken SÖ

1,245

972

44.7

54.1

28,768

Gamla staden V

1,801

1,532

47.7

51.0

21,679

Gamla staden Ö

1,861

1,568

42.7

55.9

22,554

Glemmingebro-Ingelstorp

1,329

1,030

39.6

59.2

22,646

Hälsobacken

1,310

1,052

42.9

56.3

25,887

Köpingebro

1,323

940

33.4

65.1

27,175

Löderup

1,171

994

39.3

60.2

22,864

Nybrostrand-St Köpinge

2,000

1,570

30.0

69.3

28,089

Solbacken N

1,589

1,242

40.9

57.1

26,648

St Herrestad-Hedskoga

2,221

1,588

33.8

65.2

29,677

Surbrunnen-Ö förstaden N

2,159

1,869

41.1

58.2

22,465

Svarte-Snårestad

2,193

1,631

37.3

61.9

29,810

Sövestad-Baldringe

1,401

1,094

32.7

65.9

27,432

V Sjöstaden-Åkerholm

1,804

1,365

33.9

64.8

27,430

Ö Förstaden S-Regementet

1,652

1,344

39.4

60.0

22,285

Source: SVT^[4]

International relations

Twin towns — sister cities

Ystad is twinned with:

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.
^ "Folkmängd per tätort efter region och vart 5:e år" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. Retrieved 2019-07-30.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Valresultat 2022 för Ystad i riksdagsvalet" (in Swedish). SVT. 11 September 2022. Retrieved 14 January 2024.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ystad Municipality.

Ystad Municipality - Official site
Österlen - Official site
Kurt Wallander English Language site for fans of Henning Mankell's detective series, including information on, and photographs of, Ystad
Branagh's Wallander - Website relating to the BBC's English language Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh