Oskarshamn Municipality

Municipality in Kalmar County, Sweden

Oskarshamn Municipality Oskarshamns kommun
Municipality
Oskarshamn Railway Station
Coat of arms

Coordinates: 57°16′N 16°27′E / 57.267°N 16.450°E / 57.267; 16.450
Country	Sweden
County	Kalmar County
Seat	Oskarshamn
Area ^[1]
• Total	2,277.35 km² (879.29 sq mi)
• Land	1,046.62 km² (404.10 sq mi)
• Water	1,230.73 km² (475.19 sq mi)
	Area as of 1 January 2014.
Population (31 December 2023)^[2]
• Total	26,918
• Density	12/km² (31/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Småland
Municipal code	0882
Website	www.oskarshamn.se

Oskarshamn Municipality (Oskarshamns kommun) is a municipality in Kalmar County in south-eastern Sweden, where the city Oskarshamn is seat.

The amalgamations in the present municipality took place in 1967 when three rural municipalities joined the City of Oskarshamn, which was transformed into a municipality of unitary type in 1971.

In 1966 construction started on the first nuclear power plant, OKG, within the present municipality. Since then two more reactors have been built and the plant today produces about 10% of Sweden's electricity. In October 2020 the municipal council voted in favour of the building of Forsmark nuclear waste repository, with the final decision needing to be made by the Swedish government.^[3]

Coat of arms

Oskarshamn was named after King Oscar I of Sweden. The top of the coat of arms show the insignia of the King. In the other fields there are symbols for shipping (the anchor), trade (the staff of Mercury) and wealth (the cornucopia).

Its current design stems from 1942, but it basically only differers from the old in the alignment of the symbols. The coat of arms was re-used for the new municipality after 1971 and the arms of Döderhult and Misterhult became obsolete.

Localities

There are nine urban areas (also called localities, Swedish: tätorter) in Oskarshamn 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	Oskarshamn	17,143
2	Påskallavik	1,077
3	Kristdala	994
4	Figeholm	802
5	Fårbo	520
6	Mysingsö	398
7	Emsfors 1)	353
8	Bockara	351
9	Saltvik	285

1) A minor part of Emsfors is in Mönsterås Municipality

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Oskarshamn Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.^[4]

In total there were 27,180 residents, including 20,862 Swedish citizens of voting age.^[4] 41.6 % voted for the left coalition and 57.2 % 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

Centrum

1,845

1,530

44.1

55.0

22,129

Döderhult-Bockara

2,182

1,655

32.2

67.1

28,237

Figeholm

996

780

40.5

58.9

24,399

Fårbo-Misterhult

1,548

1,200

37.3

60.8

25,451

Gröndal

1,019

841

49.7

49.1

26,600

Humlekärrshult

1,421

1,006

38.6

60.4

28,445

Kolberga-Mockebo

1,923

1,450

35.5

63.9

32,316

Kristdala-Bråbo-Ishult

1,649

1,274

37.7

61.5

23,448

Kristineberg V

1,830

1,283

54.0

43.8

22,793

Kristineberg Ö

2,198

1,612

46.3

52.4

25,890

Norrtorn

1,701

1,343

42.1

55.9

26,715

Orrängen-Syrenhagen

1,215

971

41.1

58.2

26,406

Påskallavik

1,710

1,336

38.4

60.5

26,292

Rödsle-Norrby

1,589

1,217

37.6

61.9

28,619

Solbacka-Åsa

1,625

1,330

46.1

52.3

23,209

Svalliden

1,281

950

40.9

57.8

27,986

Södertorn

1,448

1,084

54.6

43.4

23,533

Source: SVT^[4]

Politics

The Swedish Social Democratic Party has been governing the city and later the municipality since 1932, however not always forming an absolute majority^{[citation needed]}. It usually builds a majority with the Left Party of Sweden. All parties that are represented in the Riksdag are also represented in the municipal assembly kommunfullmäktige.

Media

Oskarshamn has two local newspapers: Oskarshamns-Tidningen (conservative) and Nyheterna (social democratic).

Notability

The Blå Jungfrun is a small island outside the coast, between the mainland and the island of Öland, and is classified as a national park.

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.
^ "Swedish municipality gives approval for fuel repository". World Nuclear News. 14 October 2020. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Valresultat 2022 för Oskarshamn i riksdagsvalet" (in Swedish). SVT. 11 September 2022. Retrieved 14 January 2024.