Alvesta Municipality

Not to be confused with Avesta Municipality.

Alvesta Municipality Alvesta kommun
Municipality
Alvesta town hall
Coat of arms
Coordinates: 56°54′N 14°33′E
Country	Sweden
County	Kronoberg County
Seat	Alvesta
Area
• Total	1,074.26 km2 (414.77 sq mi)
• Land	974.19 km2 (376.14 sq mi)
• Water	100.07 km2 (38.64 sq mi)
	Area as of 1 January 2014.
Population  (31 December 2023)
• Total	20,040
• Density	19/km2 (48/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC 1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC 2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Småland
Municipal code	0764
Website	www.alvesta.se

Alvesta Municipality (Alvesta kommun) is a municipality in Kronoberg County, southern Sweden. Its seat is in Alvesta.

The present municipality was created in 1971, when the market town (köping) Alvesta (instituted in 1945) was amalgamated with four surrounding rural municipalities. Amalgamations had also taken place in 1952 and 1963. The number of original local government entities within the present municipality is twelve.

The municipal arms are from 1951 and depict three bees and a winged wheel. This symbolizes the railway that is so vital for the industry, while the bees signify the hard-working spirit that the locals pride themselves with.

The municipality boasts nature areas and is suitable for fishing, canoeing or playing golf.

The mansion of Huseby is a popular place to visit, located some 15 kilometers south of the town Alvesta, and hosts a couple of museums. There are also old churches scattered around the municipality, some medieval, among them the Alvesta Church.

Localities

There are 6 urban areas (or tätort) in Alvesta Municipality.

In the table the localities are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters.

#	Locality	Population
1	Alvesta	7,647
2	Moheda	1,852
3	Vislanda	1,773
4	Grimslöv	638
5	Torpsbruk	354
6	Hjortsberga	229

Demographics

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

In total there were 20,256 inhabitants, including 14,578 Swedish citizens of voting age. 42.0% voted for the left coalition and 56.0% 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 % % Alvesta N 2,001 1,268 51.4 43.7 60 39 61 17,538 25 Alvesta S-Blädinge 2,673 1,893 48.7 48.3 74 60 40 21,641 32 Alvesta V 1,966 1,280 53.5 41.2 68 45 55 22,221 25 Aringsås 1,871 1,362 41.1 58.2 87 79 21 27,599 41 Hjortsberga 987 745 31.8 66.5 89 89 11 27,377 34 Lekaryd-Härlöv 2,089 1,514 39.1 58.9 90 81 19 28,830 41 Moheda Ö 1,228 956 43.0 55.9 88 90 10 27,395 31 Skatelöv 1,548 1,189 37.8 61.1 86 93 7 26,906 32 Slätthög-Mistelås 2,352 1,773 37.6 61.6 86 89 11 23,855 32 Vislanda 2,419 1,753 36.5 62.3 84 81 19 25,350 25 Västra Torsås 1,122 845 39.5 59.4 83 88 12 23,676 29 Source: SVT

Notable natives

Some well-known natives of Alvesta are the national famous magician Joe Labero and the ATP tennis player Jonas Björkman. The former world #1 in the same sport, Mats Wilander, was originally from Torpsbruk in the north part of the municipality.

Swan J. Turnblad (1860–1933) American newspaper publisher associated with Svenska Amerikanska Posten, a Swedish language newspaper once published in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was born in Tubbemåla in Vislanda parish.

Politics

Result of the 2010 election:

• Moderate Party 30,28%
• Centre party 11,24%
• Liberal People's Party 4,69%
• Christian Democrats 5,42%
• Swedish Social Democratic Party 30,95%
• Left Party 4,50%
• Green Party 4,33%
• Sweden Democrats 7,82%
• Other Parties 0,76%

References

• Statistics Sweden

External links

• Alvesta Municipality - Official site
• Coat of arms