Kalmar Municipality

Kalmar Municipality (Swedish: Kalmar kommun) is a municipality in Kalmar County, southeastern Sweden. The city of Kalmar is the municipal seat.

Kalmar Municipality Kalmar kommun
Municipality
Kalmar City Hall
Coat of arms
Coordinates: 56°40′N 16°22′E
Country	Sweden
County	Kalmar County
Seat	Kalmar
Area
• Total	1,250.96 km2 (483.00 sq mi)
• Land	956.9 km2 (369.5 sq mi)
• Water	294.06 km2 (113.54 sq mi)
	Area as of 1 January 2014.
Population  (30 June 2025)
• Total	72,657
• Density	75.93/km2 (196.7/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Småland
Municipal code	0880
Website	www.kalmar.se
Density is calculated using land area only.

The present municipality was created in 1971, when the City of Kalmar was amalgamated with five surrounding rural municipalities. The municipality consists of fifteen original local government units.

Localities

There are 16 urban areas (also called a Tätort or locality) in Kalmar Municipality.

Kalmar castle

In the table the localities are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2019. The municipal seat is in bold characters.

#	Locality	Population
1	Kalmar	41,110
2	Lindsdal	5,958
3	Smedby	3,658
4	Ljungbyholm	1,809
5	Rinkabyholm	1,659
6	Trekanten	1,608
7	Rockneby	960
8	Läckeby	943
9	Hagby	831
10	Påryd	685
11	Drag	550
12	Vassmolösa	534
13	Dunö	430
14	Tvärskog	394
15	Åmunnen	343
16	Halltorp	286

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Kalmar 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 54,430 Swedish citizens of voting age resident in the municipality. 48.4 % voted for the left coalition and 50.5 % 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 % % Berga 2,120 1,611 47.8 51.7 88 91 9 32,411 64 Berga C 2,098 1,644 52.9 45.6 74 68 32 20,807 33 Bergavik 1,629 1,216 46.7 52.2 87 84 16 30,744 58 Björkenäs 1,289 1,035 49.0 50.6 82 86 14 27,948 63 Djurängen V 1,543 1,260 55.6 42.8 70 71 29 21,565 43 Djurängen Ö 1,933 1,794 49.1 49.6 77 78 22 22,566 46 Drag-Revsudden 1,429 1,079 41.6 57.8 87 92 8 29,606 52 Falkenberg 1,843 1,500 57.9 40.8 71 76 24 21,466 52 Funkabo 1,804 1,301 58.4 40.2 70 64 36 20,046 39 Gamla stan 1,796 1,546 47.7 51.4 81 90 10 27,873 57 Getinge-Tallhagen 1,246 960 49.8 49.5 75 87 13 28,844 67 Hagby Vassmolösa S 1,941 1,521 47.6 51.2 87 91 9 25,734 41 Halltorp-Voxtorp 1,022 794 39.8 59.2 83 91 9 24,952 40 Kalmarsundsparken 1,467 1,230 47.0 52.5 88 92 8 32,806 67 Kvarnholmen 1,991 1,805 47.2 51.7 82 87 13 27,507 52 Lindsdal NO 1,523 1,106 51.3 47.5 84 87 13 25,649 42 Lindsdal NV-Förlösa 1,648 1,271 40.4 58.7 88 91 9 29,298 47 Lindsdal SO-Fjölebro 1,964 1,322 47.1 52.2 91 87 13 29,275 54 Lindsdal SV-Kläckeberga 1,537 1,109 48.2 50.4 83 80 20 26,515 45 Ljungbyholm-Vassmolösa 2,503 1,836 43.5 55.5 87 90 10 28,125 47 Läckeby 1,771 1,300 42.7 56.8 87 93 7 28,176 41 Malmen S 1,201 956 48.7 50.4 71 80 20 23,397 55 Malmen V 1,882 1,552 53.2 45.8 72 82 18 24,281 53 Malmen-Norrgårdsgärdet 1,843 1,768 49.6 49.0 80 88 12 25,870 52 Norrgårdsgärdet V 1,134 1,002 47.0 51.6 81 84 16 24,955 46 Norrliden V 2,020 1,227 66.1 31.1 65 38 62 18,201 29 Norrliden Ö 2,030 1,195 67.8 29.3 59 38 62 16,211 29 Oxhagen 1,851 1,329 60.7 37.8 67 55 45 19,015 34 Påryd 922 732 44.3 54.3 76 84 16 20,757 25 Rinkabyholm S-Hossmo 2,179 1,486 41.7 57.1 90 95 5 32,119 61 Rockneby 1,453 1,115 40.7 57.8 85 93 7 26,592 34 Sandås-Stensberg 2,008 1,606 46.6 52.0 81 86 14 25,794 53 Skälby 1,269 1,009 53.8 44.7 64 79 21 16,704 51 Smedby S-Rinkabyholm N 1,807 1,280 43.8 55.9 88 90 10 30,348 54 Smedby V 1,540 1,076 56.6 41.5 69 60 40 21,191 33 Smedby Ö 1,729 1,194 50.9 47.3 82 79 21 26,328 39 Snurrom 1,219 781 43.5 55.1 77 72 28 22,536 35 Tegelviken-Johannesborg 1,678 1,317 50.6 48.5 83 89 11 29,154 56 Trekanten 2,310 1,649 38.0 60.6 87 90 10 27,836 40 Tvärskog 1,168 855 46.2 52.9 85 91 9 26,174 34 Vimpeltorpet 2,468 1,712 45.2 54.3 86 78 22 30,102 55 Ängö-Varvsholmen 1,437 1,349 36.4 62.7 85 92 8 30,709 56 Source: SVT

International relations

Main article: List of twin towns and sister cities in Sweden

Twin towns — sister cities

Kalmar is twinned with:

• Gdańsk, Poland (since 1991)
• Kaliningrad, Russia
• Wilmington, Delaware, United States
• Savonlinna, Finland
• Samsun, Turkey
• Panevėžys, Lithuania

References

• Statistics Sweden

External links

• Kalmar Municipality - Official site
• University of Kalmar