Alingsås_Municipality

Alingsås Municipality

Alingsås Municipality

Municipality in Västra Götaland County, Sweden


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

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The present municipality was formed in 1974 then the former City of Alingsås (itself a municipality of unitary type since the subdivision reform of 1971) was amalgamated with Bjärke and Hemsjö.

Location, population

Alingsås is part (together with 12 other municipalities) of the Gothenburg Metropolitan Area with 900,000 inhabitants. As of 31 December 2021 Alingsås Municipality had 41,853 inhabitants, most of which lived in Alingsås city (ca 25,000).

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Alingsås 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 41,777 residents, including 31,871 Swedish citizens of voting age.[3] 49.1% voted for the left coalition and 49.4% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

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Sister cities

Alingsås has seven sister cities:


References

  1. "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.
  2. "Folkmängd och befolkningsförändringar - Kvartal 4, 2023" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. February 22, 2024. Retrieved February 22, 2024.
  3. "Valresultat 2022 för Alingsås i riksdagsvalet" (in Swedish). SVT. 11 September 2022. Retrieved 9 January 2024.

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