Sandviken Municipality
Sandviken Municipality
Sandvikens kommun | |
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| Sandviken Railway Station Sandviken Railway Station | |
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Coat of arms of Sandviken Municipality Coat of arms | |
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| Country | Sweden |
| County | Gävleborg County |
| Seat | Sandviken |
| Area | |
• Total | 1,297.07 km2 (500.80 sq mi) |
| • Land | 1,166.4 km2 (450.3 sq mi) |
| • Water | 130.67 km2 (50.45 sq mi) |
| Area as of 1 January 2014. | |
| Population (30 June 2025)[2] | |
• Total | 38,340 |
| • Density | 32.87/km2 (85.13/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| ISO 3166 code | SE |
| Province | Gästrikland |
| Municipal code | 2181 |
| Website | sandviken.se |
Sandviken Municipality (Swedish: Sandvikens kommun) is a municipality in Gävleborg County, in east central Sweden. The seat is the town of Sandviken.
The present municipality was created in 1971 through the amalgamation of the City of Sandviken (itself instituted in 1943) with a number of surrounding rural municipalities.
Coat of arms
[edit | edit source]The coat of arms was granted to the then City of Sandviken upon its institution in 1943. The device in the middle is a steam hammer. After the municipality reform of 1971 the arms was taken over by the new, larger, entity.
Name
[edit | edit source]Sandviken means "sandy bay". There are numerous other places by that name throughout Scandinavia.
Demographics
[edit | edit source]This is a demographic table based on Sandviken 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 29,612 Swedish citizens of voting age resident in the municipality.[3] 50.2% voted for the left coalition and 48.6% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | % | ||||||||
| Barrsätra | 1,865 | 1,445 | 54.3 | 44.9 | 78 | 76 | 24 | 25,756 | 41 |
| Björksätra | 2,633 | 1,423 | 62.7 | 35.2 | 56 | 42 | 58 | 14,756 | 21 |
| Gästrike-Hammarby | 2,049 | 1,647 | 44.4 | 55.0 | 75 | 91 | 9 | 21,597 | 23 |
| Jernvallen N | 1,925 | 1,586 | 54.2 | 44.8 | 86 | 86 | 14 | 27,653 | 39 |
| Jernvallen S | 2,337 | 1,811 | 48.5 | 50.6 | 84 | 85 | 15 | 29,618 | 41 |
| Jäderfors-Norrsätra | 1,999 | 1,206 | 53.3 | 45.6 | 68 | 51 | 49 | 19,538 | 26 |
| Järbo | 2,600 | 2,043 | 41.9 | 56.7 | 83 | 91 | 9 | 25,689 | 28 |
| Kungsgården-Åshammar | 2,528 | 1,944 | 39.6 | 58.9 | 82 | 89 | 11 | 25,224 | 23 |
| Murgården | 2,542 | 1,404 | 66.6 | 31.6 | 55 | 36 | 64 | 14,309 | 19 |
| Sandbacka | 2,372 | 1,866 | 49.2 | 49.8 | 82 | 82 | 18 | 27,126 | 36 |
| Sandviken C | 2,069 | 1,835 | 54.5 | 44.0 | 72 | 72 | 28 | 22,038 | 30 |
| Sandviken N | 2,529 | 2,000 | 50.1 | 49.1 | 88 | 91 | 9 | 29,927 | 45 |
| Stadsparken | 1,879 | 1,655 | 62.3 | 36.6 | 74 | 78 | 22 | 19,961 | 31 |
| Storvik N | 1,672 | 1,321 | 48.0 | 50.7 | 83 | 90 | 10 | 26,163 | 32 |
| Säljan | 2,229 | 1,736 | 46.2 | 53.0 | 88 | 90 | 10 | 31,033 | 42 |
| Vallhov | 2,498 | 1,769 | 52.9 | 46.3 | 80 | 72 | 28 | 25,685 | 36 |
| Årsunda | 2,250 | 1,872 | 42.7 | 56.7 | 88 | 94 | 6 | 27,414 | 30 |
| Österfärnebo | 1,234 | 1,049 | 46.6 | 51.6 | 80 | 92 | 8 | 22,467 | 25 |
| Source: SVT[3] | |||||||||
Sports
[edit | edit source]Sandviken Municipality was one of the co-arrangers of the 2017 Bandy World Championship, which was held in Göransson Arena, a municipality owned bandy arena in Sandviken.[4]
See also
[edit | edit source]- Sandvik - engineering company founded in Sandviken
References
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External links
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- Sandviken - Official site
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