Östhammar Municipality

Östhammar Municipality (Template:Langx) is a municipality in Uppsala County in east central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Östhammar.

The present municipality was created during the local government reform in the late sixties and early seventies. Already in 1967 the City of Öregrund joined the City of Östhammar in a common municipality. It was the first time a former city joined another local government unit. By 1971 the new combined city became a municipality of unitary type and in 1974 more units were added.

In June 2018 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.<ref name=wnn-20201014>Template:Cite news</ref>

Localities

All towns with over 200 inhabitants in 2000, from Statistics Sweden.

• Östhammar (seat)
• Gimo
• Österbybruk
• Hargshamn
• Dannemora
• Öregrund
• Alunda
• Skoby (part of this bimunicipal [1] locality is in Uppsala Municipality)
• Norrskedika

Another notable village is Forsmark (pop. 59), where the Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant is situated.

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Östhammar Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.<ref name="ÖsthammarVal2022">Template:Cite web</ref>

In total there were 17,497 Swedish citizens of voting age resident in the municipality.<ref name="ÖsthammarVal2022"/> 42.1% voted for the left coalition and 56.9% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Location Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip Template:Tooltip style="background:Template:Party color;color:#FFFFFF;" | style="background:Template:Party color;color:#FFFFFF;" | % % Alunda-Ekeby 2,138 1,651 35.8 63.0 88 94 6 26,935 29 Alunda tätort 2,544 1,829 39.0 59.9 88 92 8 26,275 32 Ed 1,588 1,211 42.4 57.0 90 89 11 27,948 30 Gimo-Hökhuvud-Vattensta 1,611 1,240 44.8 54.3 88 86 14 27,335 23 Gimo V 1,812 1,306 45.1 54.0 76 71 29 23,488 22 Hargshamn-Boda 1,387 1,131 45.5 53.4 86 89 11 25,644 29 Kristinelund-Boda 1,534 1,101 46.5 52.5 78 80 20 23,682 32 Norrskedika-Valö-Forsmark 1,332 1,131 40.5 58.6 85 92 8 25,930 23 Öregrund N-Gräsö 1,408 1,261 42.9 56.6 84 94 6 23,926 30 Öregrund S-Söderön 1,785 1,450 39.7 59.9 87 92 8 26,182 30 Österbybruk-Dannemora 2,076 1,584 42.5 56.1 86 85 15 24,980 21 Österbybruk-Morkarla 1,667 1,315 40.0 57.8 85 87 13 25,694 20 Östhammars C 1,470 1,287 47.1 52.3 85 90 10 23,710 29 Source: SVT<ref name=ÖsthammarVal2022/>

Climate

Österbybruk has a humid continental climate that is quite mild throughout the year, especially considering its northerly latitude.

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External links

• Östhammar Municipality - Official site