Hjärup () is, with its more than 4,250 inhabitants, the second largest

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Staffanstorp Municipality Staffanstorp Municipality () is a municipality in Scania County, southern Sweden. Its seat is located in the town Staffanstorp. The municipality was formed by the local government reform of 1952, when 12 original units, created out of parishes ...

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. Hjärup has a station on the

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system. The locality has a

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an character with semi-detached houses initially built in the 1960s–1970s on Lundaslätten, the fertile plain south of

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, initially on land sold off from the

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''Hjerup''. Hjärup was until the 1990s confined in between the railway and the main road

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–

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. On the other side of the railway, adjacent to Hjärup's station, a district called Jakriborg is now growing. Hjärup consists of about 1,600 households (2005) with public services chiefly limited to preschools, schools, health care center and old people's home, as virtually all inhabitants commute to work in the Greater Malmö metropolitan area. 400 of the dwellings are in the housing estate Jakriborg. The distance to

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is 5 km by bike, bus or car — or 3 minutes by train. The distance to

is about 15 km — or 10 minutes by train.

References

Populated places in Staffanstorp Municipality {{Skåne-geo-stub