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Nora Municipality

Nora kommun
Nora Railway Station
Nora Railway Station
Coat of arms of Nora Municipality
Coat of arms
Nora Municipality in Örebro County.png
Country Sweden
County Örebro County
Seat Nora
Area
 • Total 694.71 km2 (268.23 sq mi)
 • Land 621.85 km2 (240.10 sq mi)
 • Water 72.86 km2 (28.13 sq mi)
  Area as of January 1, 2010.
Population
 (June 30, 2012)
 • Total 10,403
 • Density 14.9746/km2 (38.7840/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code SE
Province Västmanland
Municipal code 1884
Website www.nora.se

Nora Municipality (Nora kommun) is a municipality in Örebro County in central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Nora.

The amalgamation leading to the present municipality took place already in 1967 and in 1971 the City of Nora became a unitary municipality.

Localities

  • Dalkarlsberg
  • Gyttorp
  • Järnboås
  • Nora (seat)
  • Nyhyttan
  • Pershyttan
  • Striberg
  • Vikersvik
  • Ås

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Nora 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 10,707 residents, including 8,277 Swedish citizens of voting age resident in the municipality. 48.0% voted for the left coalition and 50.1% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Riksdag elections

Year % Votes V S MP C L KD M SD NyD Left Right
1973 89.9 5,833 5.0 49.9 24.0 9.2 2.8 8.8 54.9 42.0
1976 91.5 6,277 3.9 49.0 25.8 9.7 2.2 9.3 52.9 44.8
1979 90.3 6,515 4.5 49.3 20.5 9.9 2.1 12.7 53.8 43.1
1982 91.1 6,683 4.4 53.0 2.1 16.8 6.0 2.2 15.6 57.4 38.4
1985 89.3 6,594 4.4 51.7 2.1 12.3 13.6 15.8 56.1 41.7
1988 85.5 6,327 5.8 49.3 5.9 10.9 11.7 3.5 12.6 61.0 35.2
1991 86.0 6,585 5.6 42.2 3.4 9.1 8.1 7.6 15.6 7.8 47.8 40.4
1994 86.5 6,754 7.0 50.4 5.4 7.8 7.3 4.2 16.2 1.1 62.8 35.5
1998 81.4 6,332 14.1 42.1 4.2 5.7 4.5 11.4 16.2 60.4 37.8
2002 79.5 6,273 9.1 45.2 4.0 7.8 11.3 8.9 11.0 1.4 58.3 39.0
2006 81.1 6,362 5.5 43.1 4.6 9.0 6.7 6.2 18.6 4.1 53.2 40.5
2010 84.9 6,745 4.5 40.4 6.1 6.2 6.4 5.5 24.2 5.8 51.0 42.3
2014 85.9 6,924 5.4 39.5 5.1 7.5 3.5 3.9 16.4 15.4 50.0 31.4
2018 86.9 6,922 6.3 33.7 3.4 8.9 3.6 6.3 14.7 21.2 52.3 46.0

Twin towns

Nora's twin towns with the year of its establishing:

  • Estonia Kõo, Estonia (1991)
  • Germany Fladungen, Germany (1996)
  • Italy Hône, Italy (2008)

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Municipio de Nora (Suecia) para niños

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