Falkenberg Municipality Facts for Kids

Falkenberg Municipality (Falkenbergs kommun) is a municipality in Halland County on the Swedish west coast. The town Falkenberg is the municipal seat.

The municipality was created in 1971 when the City of Falkenberg was amalgamated with six rural municipalities (themselves formed by the 1952 local government reform) and part of a seventh. There are 24 original entities within the area.

Today, Falkenberg holds a strong position in the food and beverage industry with companies such as Arla Foods, Carlsberg and SIA Glass having plants in the city. In the inland Gekås, a major department store, draws visitors from all over the country. Falkenberg is also a tourist city, mainly for its many beaches.

Economy
Demographics
Localities
Parks
International relations
- Twin towns — Sister cities
Notable natives
See also

Economy

The main income for the Municipality is tourism from around Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Holland and Norway. The food industry is important. Here has Carlsberg Brewery a plant with 570 employees and Arla Foods who makes cheese has a factory with 400 employees. Other important workplaces is the Gekås shoppingcentre in Ullared which has more than 1,100 employees. The centre is a "Mecka" for low-price shoppers and the company earns more than 2 700 000 000 (340 500 000 US Dollars) kronor each year. The shoppingcentre in Wal-Mart style (almost without food)company has 3,800,000 visitors each year which makes it Sweden's most visited place.

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Falkenberg 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 46,717 inhabitants, including 35,872 Swedish citizens of voting age. 47.7% voted for the left coalition and 51.3% 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

1 V Gärdet-Hamnen

1,855

1,524

50.0

49.1

24,103

2 Arvidstorp

2,249

1,729

56.2

43.0

22,520

3 Herting

2,184

1,634

51.8

46.6

25,125

4 V Gärdet-Smedjeholm

1,963

1,512

51.6

46.6

23,479

5 Centrum

1,798

1,645

49.8

49.4

22,586

6 Ö Gärdet-Vindlien

2,103

1,646

57.0

42.6

27,270

7 N Skrea Strand

1,485

1,224

38.7

60.9

28,104

8 Hjortsberg

1,958

1,633

50.9

48.3

23,021

9 Tånga-Sloalyckan

2,098

1,515

57.2

41.7

22,152

10 Falkagård-Stafsinge

1,845

1,349

54.4

44.7

22,668

11 Slätten

1,616

1,257

55.9

43.6

27,856

12 S Skrea-Strand

1,771

1,314

38.3

61.1

31,562

Glommen-Olofsbo

1,878

1,602

44.4

54.6

25,745

Köinge-Okome

1,094

849

44.0

54.5

24,346

Ljungby

1,214

937

42.9

56.8

26,417

Långås-Morup

1,339

898

43.6

55.8

24,156

Skogstorp

2,287

1,663

52.4

46.4

25,295

Skrea-Ringsegård

2,120

1,587

45.6

53.3

29,961

Slöinge

1,371

985

48.2

50.3

22,584

Tröingeberg

2,398

1,730

49.2

49.8

28,257

Ugglarp-Långasand

1,127

952

44.3

54.7

27,270

Ullared

1,496

1,149

40.9

57.8

22,357

Vessigebro

1,666

1,239

47.9

50.9

24,829

Vinbergs samhälle

1,482

1,050

41.7

57.0

25,925

Årstad

1,703

1,257

39.0

60.1

25,060

Älvsered

1,339

1,026

35.4

63.5

21,436

Ätran-Fegen

1,278

966

39.4

59.2

22,145

Source: SVT

Localities

There are 17 urban areas (also called a tätort, or locality) in Falkenberg Municipality.

In the table the localities are listed according to the size of the population as of 31 December 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters.

#	Locality	Population
1	Falkenberg	18,972
2	Skogstorp	2,180
3	Slöinge	974
4	Ullared	820
5	Skrea	789
6	Vessigebro	774
7	Glommen	687
8	Vinberg	598
9	Långås	516
10	Älvsered	475
11	Heberg	463
12	Ätran	400
13	Ringsegård	383
14	Bergagård	265
15	Årstad	258
16	Morup	248
17	Vinbergs kyrkby	216