Hofors Municipality (Hofors kommun) is a municipality in Gävleborg County, east central Sweden. Its seat is in Hofors with 7,400 inhabitants, situated at 60°33′N 16°17′E.

The first municipality with the name of Hofors was broken away from Torsåker in 1925. In 1971 the two entities were reunited to form the present municipality.

The coat of arms stem from 1968, and is derived from a map from 1539, where the town Hofors was surrounded by iron mines. ().

Nearest cities are Gävle, 50 kilometers away, and Falun, 30 kilometers away.

This is a demographic table based on Hofors 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 7,375 Swedish citizens of voting age resident in the municipality.^[3] 50.8% voted for the left coalition and 48.1% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Two sister cities:

• Denmark: Fladså,
• Finland: Kontiolahti

Until recently, Tokke in Norway was a sister city, but it has for some reason been discontinued. (Source: )