Vimmerby Municipality

Vimmerby Municipality Vimmerby kommun
Municipality
Vimmerby City Hall
Coat of arms
Coordinates: 57°40′N 15°51′E
Country	Sweden
County	Kalmar County
Seat	Vimmerby
Area
• Total	1,219.8 km2 (471.0 sq mi)
• Land	1,140.23 km2 (440.25 sq mi)
• Water	79.57 km2 (30.72 sq mi)
	Area as of 1 January 2014.
Population  (31 December 2023)
• Total	15,461
• Density	13/km2 (33/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC 1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC 2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Småland
Municipal code	0884
Website	www.vimmerby.se

Vimmerby Municipality (Vimmerby kommun) is a municipality in Kalmar County, south-eastern Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Vimmerby.

Stångån is a small river running through the municipality.

The municipality was created by the local government reform of 1971, when the City of Vimmerby was amalgamated with the surrounding rural municipalities to form an entity of unitary type.

Localities

There are 6 urban areas (also called a Tätort or locality) in Vimmerby 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	Vimmerby	7,827
2	Södra Vi	1,197
3	Storebro	977
4	Gullringen	560
5	Frödinge	364
6	Tuna	249

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Vimmerby 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 15,555 residents, including 12,022 Swedish citizens of voting age. 46.1% voted for the left coalition and 52.2% 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 % % Djursdala 406 315 33.3 65.0 90 95 5 24,225 31 Frödinge 991 799 44.5 53.9 86 97 3 25,859 30 Gullringen 749 597 43.6 54.5 86 88 12 24,094 23 Locknevi 461 360 36.6 60.9 83 89 11 21,999 29 Rumskulla 730 527 40.4 58.9 86 86 14 24,023 30 Storebro 1,172 894 42.5 56.3 80 82 18 22,205 24 Stora Vi 1,541 1,194 46.9 51.2 84 89 11 25,198 22 Tuna 673 531 47.7 50.8 85 90 10 22,987 26 Vimmerby 1 1,772 1,483 45.7 52.9 84 87 13 25,550 29 Vimmerby 2 1,922 1,325 54.6 42.7 70 63 37 20,657 26 Vimmerby 3 1,886 1,449 45.5 53.6 87 90 10 25,702 35 Vimmerby 4 1,640 1,272 48.6 48.6 78 71 29 23,538 25 Vimmerby 5 1,612 1,276 46.8 52.3 92 92 8 29,600 32 Source: SVT

Sister cities

Sister cities are cities or towns related to one another in size and history.

• Fargo, North Dakota, U.S.
• Moorhead, Minnesota, U.S.
• Skærbæk, Denmark
• Kauhava, Finland
• Þorlákshöfn, Iceland
• Rygge, Norway
• Joniškis, Lithuania

References

• Statistics Sweden

External links

• Vimmerby Municipality - Official site