Jordbro is a suburban

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situated in

Haninge Municipality Haninge Municipality (''Haninge kommun'') is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. Its seat is located in Handen, a part of the Stockholm urban area. Haninge Municipality was formed in 1971 when ''Västerhaninge'' and ''Öst ...

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with 10,291 inhabitants in 2010. The suburb is separated in two by the

Stockholm commuter rail Stockholm commuter rail ( sv, Stockholms pendeltåg) is the commuter rail system in Stockholm County, Sweden. The system is an important part of the public transport in Stockholm, and is controlled by Storstockholms Lokaltrafik. The tracks are ...

. Route 73 (Nynäsvägen), passes just east of Jordbro and connects

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and

Nynäshamn Nynäshamn is a locality and the seat of Nynäshamn Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden with 13,510 inhabitants in 2010. While interest in the area as a potentially useful port grew from the mid 19th Century, it was only with the opening of the ...

. East of the railway lies a housing area built as part of the

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, in the 1960s and 1970s. The housing area is made up of blocks of flats, with single family homes to the north and to the south. To the west of the housing area and the railway lies a relatively large industrial area, containing the main offices and production plant of

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. Dagab, Lagena, Osram and Åhlens also have distribution warehouses in the industrial area. Just to the south, between Jordbro and

Västerhaninge Västerhaninge () is a locality situated in Haninge Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden. It had 15,134 inhabitants in 2010. It is connected to Stockholm by commuter rail. Västerhaninge borders the large Hanveden forest to the north, the Jordbr ...

Jordbro Grave Field Jordbro Grave Field ( sv, Jordbro gravfält) is located in Haninge kommun in the southern part of Stockholm County, Sweden. It is thought to be the largest grave field dating from the Iron Age in the Nordic countries. It is situated south of t ...

, a burial ground, thought to have been used somewhere between 500 BC and 500 CE. Jordbro has three schools, Kvarnbäcksskolan, Höglundaskolan and Fredsduvan, which are lower primary schools with preschools. Starting in 1973, filmmaker

Rainer Hartleb Rainer Hartleb (born 29 February 1944 in Hildburghausen, Germany) is a German-Swedish director of documentary films. He is best known for the ''Jordbro'' suite, a series of films that follows a group of people from Jordbro from the age of seven, w ...

has made a series of documentaries focusing on the lives of a number of Jordbro residents, collectively known as the ''Jordbro'' suite.

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Populated places in Haninge Municipality Metropolitan Stockholm {{Stockholm-geo-stub