Filipstad Municipality () 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.
Location % % Brattfors 464 367 39.6 57.8 86 93 7 23,622 20Filipstads N 1,734 1,341 49.1 49.8 71 84 16 21,432 21Filipstads S 1,751 1,250 44.8 54.4 72 74 26 22,890 20Filipstads V-C 1,680 1,220 51.7 47.3 61 62 38 17,035 16Filipstads Ö 1,638 1,221 41.5 57.8 77 81 19 23,520 22Kroppa 887 688 45.0 53.1 68 78 22 19,462 17Långban-Gåsborn 385 298 44.8 53.6 78 89 11 22,088 23Nordmark 423 296 44.6 54.1 80 86 14 23,862 32Persberg 436 332 39.6 58.5 75 84 16 23,129 24Rämmen 988 750 54.3 44.4 76 80 20 20,115 17Source: SVT
References
External links
Filipstad Municipality - Official site filipstad.ifolkmun.se - Local news site