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Krokom Municipality

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Krokom Municipality (, ) is a municipality in Jämtland County in northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Krokom.

The present municipality was formed in 1974, when the former municipalities of Alsen, Föllinge, Offerdal and Rödön were amalgamated. The number of original local government entities in the area is nine, and amalgamations had also taken place in 1952 and 1969.

Localities

There are eleven localities (or urban areas) in Krokom Municipality:

#LocalityPopulation
1Krokom2,087
2Ås1,097
3Nälden881
4Föllinge509
5Dvärsätt437
5Östersund (part of)437
7Änge387
8Aspås352
9Trångsviken269
10Vaplan259
11Ytterån203

The municipal seat is shown in bold

Villages

  • Flykälen
  • Kaxås
  • Rönnöfors

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Krokom 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 11,366 Swedish citizens of voting age resident in the municipality. 54.0% voted for the left coalition and 44.8% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

LocationSwedish Social Democratic Party}};color:#FFFFFF;"Moderate Party}};color:#FFFFFF;"%%
Alsenbygden1,22193553.045.7
Aspås1,06679845.354.1
Dvärsätt1,3881,00452.646.7
Föllinge-Laxsjö1,5431,24550.747.5
Krokom1,9731,48755.743.0
Nälden1,8181,25551.047.9
Offerdalsbygden2,0101,57452.546.6
Rödöbygden74859057.142.0
Ås Norra2,0541,59062.036.9
Ås Södra1,52888858.640.9
Source: SVT

Sports

The following sports clubs are located in Krokom Municipality:

  • Alsens IF
  • Ås IF

Notable people

  • Ann-Margret (1941–), Swedish-American actress and singer

References

References

  1. [http://www.scb.se/statistik/MI/MI0810/2005A01A/Tatorternami0810tab1en.xls Statistics Sweden as of December 31, 2005]
  2. (11 September 2022). "Valresultat 2022 för Krokom i riksdagsvalet". [[Swedish Television.
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