Sandviken Municipality

Municipality in Gävleborg County, Sweden

Sandviken Municipality Sandvikens kommun
Municipality
Sandviken Railway Station
Coat of arms

Coordinates: 60°37′N 16°47′E / 60.617°N 16.783°E / 60.617; 16.783
Country	Sweden
County	Gävleborg County
Seat	Sandviken
Area ^[1]
• Total	1,297.07 km² (500.80 sq mi)
• Land	1,166.4 km² (450.3 sq mi)
• Water	130.67 km² (50.45 sq mi)
	Area as of 1 January 2014.
Population (31 December 2023)^[2]
• Total	38,628
• Density	30/km² (77/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Gästrikland
Municipal code	2181
Website	www.sandviken.se

Sandviken Municipality (Sandvikens kommun) is a municipality in Gävleborg County, in east central Sweden. The seat is the town of Sandviken.

The present municipality was created in 1971 through the amalgamation of the City of Sandviken (itself instituted in 1943) with a number of surrounding rural municipalities.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms was granted to the then City of Sandviken upon its institution in 1943. The device in the middle is a steam hammer. After the municipality reform of 1971 the arms was taken over by the new, larger, entity.

Name

Sandviken means "sandy bay". There are numerous other places by that name throughout Scandinavia.

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Sandviken Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.^[3]

In total there were 29,612 Swedish citizens of voting age resident in the municipality.^[3] 50.2% voted for the left coalition and 48.6% 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

Barrsätra

1,865

1,445

54.3

44.9

25,756

Björksätra

2,633

1,423

62.7

35.2

14,756

Gästrike-Hammarby

2,049

1,647

44.4

55.0

21,597

Jernvallen N

1,925

1,586

54.2

44.8

27,653

Jernvallen S

2,337

1,811

48.5

50.6

29,618

Jäderfors-Norrsätra

1,999

1,206

53.3

45.6

19,538

Järbo

2,600

2,043

41.9

56.7

25,689

Kungsgården-Åshammar

2,528

1,944

39.6

58.9

25,224

Murgården

2,542

1,404

66.6

31.6

14,309

Sandbacka

2,372

1,866

49.2

49.8

27,126

Sandviken C

2,069

1,835

54.5

44.0

22,038

Sandviken N

2,529

2,000

50.1

49.1

29,927

Stadsparken

1,879

1,655

62.3

36.6

19,961

Storvik N

1,672

1,321

48.0

50.7

26,163

Säljan

2,229

1,736

46.2

53.0

31,033

Vallhov

2,498

1,769

52.9

46.3

25,685

Årsunda

2,250

1,872

42.7

56.7

27,414

Österfärnebo

1,234

1,049

46.6

51.6

22,467

Source: SVT^[3]

Sports

Sandviken Municipality was one of the co-arrangers of the 2017 Bandy World Championship, which was held in Göransson Arena, a municipality owned bandy arena in Sandviken.^[4]

References

^ "Statistiska centralbyrån, Kommunarealer den 1 januari 2014" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. 2014-01-01. Archived from the original (Microsoft Excel) on 2016-09-27. Retrieved 2014-04-18.
^ "Folkmängd och befolkningsförändringar - Kvartal 4, 2023" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. February 22, 2024. Retrieved February 22, 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Valresultat 2022 för Sandviken i riksdagsvalet" (in Swedish). SVT. 11 September 2022. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
^ "Bandy-VM 2017 till Sandviken" (in Swedish). Sandviken Municipality. 20 May 2015. Retrieved 21 November 2015.