Nybro Municipality

Municipality in Kalmar County, Sweden

Nybro Municipality Nybro kommun
Municipality
Nybro Railway Station
Coat of arms

Coordinates: 56°44′N 15°54′E / 56.733°N 15.900°E / 56.733; 15.900
Country	Sweden
County	Kalmar County
Seat	Nybro
Area ^[1]
• Total	1,201.54 km² (463.92 sq mi)
• Land	1,171.69 km² (452.39 sq mi)
• Water	29.85 km² (11.53 sq mi)
	Area as of 1 January 2014.
Population (31 December 2023)^[2]
• Total	20,145
• Density	17/km² (43/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Småland
Municipal code	0881
Website	www.nybro.se

Nybro Municipality (Nybro kommun) is a municipality in Kalmar County, south-eastern Sweden, with its seat in the town Nybro.

The amalgamation of the City of Nybro (instituted in 1932) with its surrounding municipalities took place in 1969.

The municipality was inhabited by a few hundred people until the railways came in the late 19th century, and the town Nybro was in its location between Kalmar on the east coast and Gothenburg on the west coast; later also on the railway from Kalmar and Malmö in the south-west. Until then Nybro mostly consisted of minor industries, including a match factory, marked by its traditionally Småland forest nature, largely unsuitable for agriculture.

Nybro Municipality is in the eastern part of the "Kingdom of Crystal" area (Swedish: Glasriket), that covers a total of four municipalities.

Localities

There are nine urban areas (also called localities, Swedish: tätorter) in Nybro Municipality.

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

#	Locality	Population
1	Nybro	12,598
2	Orrefors	696
3	Alsterbro	462
4	Örsjö	373
5	Kristvallabrunn	262
6	Flygsfors	255
7	Bäckebo	241
8	Målerås	228
9	Flerohopp	209

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Nybro 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 20,252 residents, including 15,131 Swedish citizens of voting age.^[3] 45.9% voted for the left coalition and 52.6% 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

Bäckebo

688

543

39.1

60.0

22,982

Hälleberga

1,609

1,130

44.8

52.9

20,748

Kristvalla

638

528

39.5

58.4

24,166

Kråksmåla

651

485

45.6

53.9

22,290

Madesjö 1

1,832

1,379

44.8

54.4

26,486

Madesjö 2

1,667

1,245

40.2

58.5

25,989

Nybro 1

1,765

1,528

52.5

45.8

18,533

Nybro 2

1,590

1,176

52.2

46.6

21,045

Nybro 3

1,857

1,041

65.5

28.9

15,054

Nybro 4

1,543

1,223

48.3

50.1

20,900

Nybro 5

1,712

1,299

43.4

55.7

26,050

Nybro 6

1,635

1,302

45.2

54.1

27,124

Nybro 7

2,102

1,524

44.3

55.1

26,919

Örsjö-Oskar

963

728

36.3

61.8

24,653

Source: SVT^[3]

References

Statistics Sweden

^ "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 Nybro i riksdagsvalet" (in Swedish). SVT. 11 September 2022. Retrieved 27 January 2024.