Timrå Municipality

Timrå Municipality (Template:Langx) is a municipality in Västernorrland County, Sweden. The town of Timrå is the municipal seat.

The rural municipality Timrå was made a market town (köping) in 1947. The present municipality was created in 1971 when Timrå was amalgamated with Hässjö.

Geography

Timrå is located in a terrain of forest and hills. Traditionally the industry has been dominated by forestry. The timber was transported through the rivers and streams to their destination, most often to sawmills. In tribute to this, the city arms depicts trees and water.

Localities

• Bergeforsen
• Stavreviken
• Söråker
• Sörberge
• Timrå (seat)

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Timrå 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=TimråVal2022>Template:Cite web</ref>

In total there were 17,904 residents, including 13,943 Swedish citizens of voting age.<ref name=TimråVal2022/> 53.2% voted for the left coalition and 45.9% 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;" | % % Ala 1,125 887 46.5 52.1 84 94 6 27,082 31 Bergeforsen 1,891 1,435 47.4 52.2 86 94 6 28,674 33 Böle 1,973 1,499 58.1 41.0 88 91 9 29,248 38 Centrum 1,859 1,638 64.3 34.8 71 77 23 19,989 24 Ljustorp 970 760 50.3 48.8 84 93 7 24,703 27 Nyvista 1,669 1,145 57.1 41.6 67 69 31 20,904 22 Sörberge 1,879 1,469 52.1 47.1 85 90 10 26,951 35 Söråker 2,108 1,598 52.0 47.1 81 92 8 24,727 36 Timrådalen 1,949 1,489 48.5 50.8 86 89 11 27,873 52 Tynderö 756 653 49.7 49.4 83 95 5 26,494 36 Vivsta 1,725 1,370 56.4 42.8 78 82 18 23,133 27 Source: SVT<ref name=TimråVal2022/>

Notable citizens

• Lennart Svedberg (1944-1972), ice hockey player
• Magdalena Forsberg (1967), cross country skier, biathlete
• Henrik Flyman, guitarist, composer, producer
• Henrik Forsberg (1967), cross country skier

External links

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• Timrå - Official site