Filipstad Municipality facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Filipstad Municipality Filipstads kommun
Municipality
Coat of arms
Country	Sweden
County	Värmland County
Seat	Filipstad
Area
• Total	1,721.72 km2 (664.76 sq mi)
• Land	1,543.1 km2 (595.8 sq mi)
• Water	178.62 km2 (68.97 sq mi)
	Area as of January 1, 2010.
Population  (June 30, 2012)
• Total	10,582
• Density	6.14618/km2 (15.9185/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Värmland and Dalarna
Municipal code	1782
Website	www.filipstad.se

Filipstad Municipality (Filipstads kommun) is a municipality in Värmland County in west central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Filipstad.

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:

• Filipstad, 6,300 inhabitants (seat)
• Lesjöfors, 1,247 inhabitants
• Nykroppa, 1,020 inhabitants
• Persberg, 350 inhabitants
• Nordmark, 250 inhabitants

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Filipstad 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 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 university degrees and about 22% were of foreign background. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.