Filipstad Municipality (''Filipstads kommun'') is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

Värmland County Värmland County (''Värmlands län'') is a county or '' län'' in west central Sweden. It borders the Swedish counties of Dalarna, Örebro and Västra Götaland, as well as the Norwegian counties of Viken and Innlandet to the west. Prince Carl P ...

in west central

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. Its seat is located in the

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Filipstad Filipstad is a locality and the seat of Filipstad Municipality, Värmland County, Sweden, with 10,644 inhabitants in 2019. Filipstad was granted city privileges in 1611 by Charles IX of Sweden, who named it after his son Duke Carl Philip (1601&n ...

. The present municipality was created in 1971 when the City of Filipstad was merged with the rural municipalities of Kroppa, Rämmen and Värmlandsberg.

Localities

With at least 200 inhabitants: *

, 6,300 inhabitants (seat) *

Lesjöfors Lesjöfors is a locality situated in Filipstad Municipality, Värmland County, Sweden with 1,062 inhabitants in 2010. Located in the Bergslagen area, where mining and metal preparation historically was the leading industry, the town grew up around ...

, 1,247 inhabitants *

Nykroppa Nykroppa is a locality situated in Filipstad Municipality, Värmland County, Sweden with 846 inhabitants in 2010. Riksdag elections Being an industrial village, Nykroppa has been dominated by the Social Democrats Social democracy is a p ...

, 1,020 inhabitants *

Persberg Persberg is a locality situated in Filipstad Municipality, Värmland County, Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of ...

, 350 inhabitants *

Nordmark The Northern March or North March (german: Nordmark) was created out of the division of the vast ''Marca Geronis'' in 965. It initially comprised the northern third of the ''Marca'' (roughly corresponding to the modern state of Brandenburg) and ...

, 250 inhabitants

Demographics

2022

This is a demographic table based on Filipstad Municipality's electoral districts in the

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sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics. Residents include everyone registered as living in the district, regardless of age or citizenship status. Valid voters indicate Swedish citizens above the age of 18 who therefore can vote in general elections. Left vote and right vote indicate the result between the two major blocs in said district in the 2022 general election. Employment indicates the share of people between the ages of 20 and 64 who are working taxpayers. Foreign background denotes residents either born abroad or with two parents born outside of Sweden. Median income is the received monthly income through either employment, capital gains or social grants for the median adult above 20, also including pensioners in

Swedish kronor The krona (; plural: ''kronor''; sign: kr; code: SEK) is the official currency of the Kingdom of Sweden. Both the ISO code "SEK" and currency sign "kr" are in common use; the former precedes or follows the value, the latter usually follows it b ...

. College graduates indicates any degree accumulated after high school. In total there were 10,387 residents with 7,763 Swedish citizen adults eligible to vote. The political demographics were 46.5 % for the left bloc and 52.3 % for the right bloc. Filipstad is generally a low-income municipality, with low attainment of college degrees and about 22 % were of foreign background.

References

External links

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Filipstad Municipality
- Official site
filipstad.ifolkmun.se
- Local news site {{authority control Municipalities of Värmland County