Vetlanda Municipality

Municipality in Jönköping County, Sweden

Vetlanda Municipality Vetlanda kommun
Municipality
Vetlanda City Hall
Coat of arms

Coordinates: 57°26′N 15°04′E / 57.433°N 15.067°E / 57.433; 15.067
Country	Sweden
County	Jönköping County
Seat	Vetlanda
Area ^[1]
• Total	1,600.43 km² (617.93 sq mi)
• Land	1,500.51 km² (579.35 sq mi)
• Water	99.92 km² (38.58 sq mi)
	Area as of 1 January 2014.
Population (31 December 2023)^[2]
• Total	27,498
• Density	17/km² (45/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Småland
Municipal code	0685
Website	www.vetlanda.se

Vetlanda Municipality (Vetlanda kommun) is a municipality in Jönköping County, southern Sweden. The town of Vetlanda is the municipality's seat.

The municipality was created in 1971 when the City of Vetlanda (instituted in 1920) was amalgamated with the surrounding rural municipalities to form a unitary municipality. When Sweden's first local government laws went into effect in 1863, there were more than 20 entities located within the current municipality's boundaries.

Vetlanda is the birthplace of Johan Franzén, a professional ice hockey center who played for the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League.

Geography

Vetlanda Municipality is the largest municipality in Jönköping County. The municipality is situated on the South Swedish highlands, an area situated some 250 meters above sea level and also includes Eksjö Municipality and Nässjö Municipality. It is a sight-worthy nature that is visited by tourists for the scenery alone.

The distance to any of the three largest Swedish cities Malmö (south-west), Gothenburg (west) and Stockholm (north-east) is rather similar; about 300 km.

Localities

There are 12 urban areas (also called a Tätort or locality) in Vetlanda 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	Vetlanda	12,691
2	Ekenässjön	1,551
3	Landsbro	1,454
4	Holsbybrunn	780
5	Korsberga	731
6	Myresjö	644
7	Kvillsfors	560
8	Sjunnen	417
9	Skede	345
10	Björköby	312
11	Pauliström	257
12	Nye	203

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Vetlanda 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 27,601 residents, including 20,663 Swedish citizens of voting age.^[3] 40.5% voted for the left coalition and 58.1% 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

Alseda-Skede

2,463

1,808

39.6

58.6

24,455

Björkö-Nävelsjö

2,143

1,538

37.6

61.5

25,689

Brunnsgård

1,853

1,549

41.6

57.6

26,382

Bäckseda

2,515

1,907

37.5

61.5

30,132

Ekenässjön

1,766

1,259

42.6

56.1

24,008

Karlslund

1,657

1,310

41.7

57.6

26,476

Korsberga-Ramkvilla

2,076

1,526

38.5

60.4

24,331

Lannaskede-Fröderyd

1,930

1,389

38.6

60.2

22,885

Mellangården

2,333

1,815

43.7

55.1

23,787

Nye-Skirö-Näshult

1,260

944

34.6

63.1

25,641

Pukaregården

1,735

1,426

41.8

56.4

23,947

Tomaslunden

2,509

1,822

44.3

54.2

26,958

Vetlanda Flugeby

2,281

1,581

43.0

55.6

22,343

Ökna-Karlstorp

1,080

789

37.2

61.7

19,618

Source: SVT^[3]

History

The history of Vetlanda goes back to at least the medieval age when it was the seat for the regional assembly called þing (thing). According to the imaginations of Petter Rudebeck (1660–1710), Vetlanda was before that known as Vitala, and the centre of a mythological kingdom. However, all later archeological research has failed in finding any evidence of it. But the myth was popular during the 18th and 19th century, which displays in the naming of several companies and locations around the municipality.

Sports

Vetlanda boasts successful clubs in bandy (Vetlanda BK) and in motorcycle speedway (Vetlanda Speedway).

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 Vetlanda i riksdagsvalet" (in Swedish). SVT. 11 September 2022. Retrieved 24 January 2024.