Jönköping Municipality (Swedish: Jönköpings kommun) is a municipality in Jönköping County, southern Sweden. The city of Jönköping is the municipal seat. The municipality is situated by the southern end of lake Vättern.
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Historical background
The area of the present municipality consists of more than 20 original municipal entities, among them three former cities. In 1952 the number of units was reduced to 13. The present municipality was created in connection with the nationwide local government reform of 1971.
Localities
There are 17 urban areas (also called a Tätort or locality) in Jönköping Municipality.
In the table the localities are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2015. The municipal seat is in bold characters.
Demographics
This is a demographic table based on Jönköping 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 107,336 Swedish citizens of voting age. 46.4% voted for the left coalition and 52.3% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.
Sport
International Floorball Federation was founded in the eastern part of Jönköping, in Huskvarna, 1986.
Twin towns – sister cities
Jönköping is twinned with:
Bodø, Norway
Kuopio, Finland
Lääne-Viru County, Estonia
Svendborg, Denmark
Tianjin, China