Södertälje Municipality

Södertälje Municipality (Södertälje kommun) is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Södertälje.

Södertälje Municipality Södertälje kommun
Municipality
Södertälje Old Town Hall
Coat of arms
Coordinates: 59°11′N 17°38′E
Country	Sweden
County	Stockholm County
Seat	Södertälje
Area
• Total	694.24 km2 (268.05 sq mi)
• Land	525.15 km2 (202.76 sq mi)
• Water	169.09 km2 (65.29 sq mi)
	Area as of 1 January 2014.
Population  (31 December 2023)
• Total	102,519
• Density	150/km2 (380/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Södermanland
Municipal code	0181
Website	www.sodertalje.se
Density is calculated using land area only.

It borders to Lake Mälaren in the north and the Baltic Sea in the south, and within the Stockholm County to Nykvarn Municipality and Salem Municipality and also border Södermanland County and its municipals Gnesta and Trosa.

The municipality was created 1967–1971 through the amalgamation of the former City of Södertälje with large rural and suburban areas surrounding it. In 1999, it was split when a new entity, Nykvarn Municipality, was detached from Södertälje Municipality.

Economy

Two big industries dominate Södertälje. Scania AB is a world leading manufacturer of trucks and busses and employed over 9,000 people. AstraZeneca is an international manufacturer of drugs (medicine) employing over 3,000 people. The municipal Södertälje itself employs over 5,600 people including teachers and people working with elderly people.

Södertälje has a canal, Södertälje Canal, that is very important for the ships who want to reach the big lake Mälaren from the Baltic Sea.

Demography

Södertälje has the fifth largest number of Finnish-speaking Sweden Finns in Sweden: 11,000, or around 13 per cent of the city population. Thus, taken together, Finns and an estimated 120,000 Assyrians in Sweden and account for 40 per cent of the inhabitants of the city.

2022 population by district

This is a demographic table based on Södertälje 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 67,079 Swedish citizens of voting age resident in the municipality. 44.9% voted for the left coalition and 53.4% 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 % % 1 Södra Värdsholmen 1,845 1,307 49.8 48.9 77 49 51 25,927 37 2 Saltskog Ö 1,785 1,083 44.4 53.7 79 39 61 25,822 40 3 Saltskog V 1,846 1,042 47.4 50.3 69 26 74 21,837 32 4 Västergård-Vibergen 2,256 1,412 40.7 57.9 79 45 55 26,731 33 5 Mariekälla S 1,594 1,391 44.1 54.8 81 49 51 28,539 44 6 Västergård-Högmo 2,273 1,406 41.4 56.8 76 28 72 26,636 47 7 Mariekälla N 1,794 1,344 48.7 50.0 83 59 41 27,993 46 8 Centrum S 1,550 1,160 48.5 50.1 75 51 49 25,415 38 9 Blombacka 2,882 1,594 48.1 48.5 69 22 78 21,384 32 10 Tälje 2,174 1,580 47.7 50.7 76 55 45 25,995 36 11 Centrum N 1,470 1,058 48.8 50.0 73 46 54 24,167 38 12 Bårstabergen V 992 674 45.3 52.6 75 48 52 23,982 24 13 Bårstabergen Ö 2,099 1,583 48.6 50.5 73 45 55 22,489 40 14 Snäckviken 1,848 940 49.3 47.3 72 20 80 22,334 38 15 Glasberga 3,050 1,847 23.5 75.6 83 24 76 28,594 44 16 Östertälje 2,293 1,772 47.3 51.5 83 62 38 31,041 53 17 Fornbacka 2,205 1,102 50.3 46.0 62 19 81 18,286 32 18 Hagaberg-Majtorp 1,754 1,390 44.8 53.5 83 66 34 30,305 47 19 Rosenlund V 1,679 1,222 47.2 51.3 78 55 45 25,957 39 20 Rosenlund Ö 1,581 1,206 50.1 48.3 80 54 46 26,502 33 21 Grusåsen V 2,245 1,663 44.2 54.0 74 49 51 25,307 41 22 Grusåsen Ö 1,979 1,332 45.2 52.5 69 42 58 22,858 33 23 Brunnsäng Ö 1,854 1,291 44.4 53.9 75 45 55 24,283 32 24 Brunnsäng V 1,647 987 48.3 50.6 69 27 73 20,525 34 25 Bergvik 1,380 1,085 48.3 50.1 75 51 49 23,170 38 26 Fornhöjden 1,985 1,229 55.3 42.3 65 15 85 19,385 32 27 Viksberg 1,375 1,029 35.9 63.0 87 76 24 34,619 39 28 Vitorp 2,093 1,361 28.7 70.3 82 36 64 27,643 43 29 Ragnhildsborg 1,500 1,014 38.1 60.6 85 40 60 28,443 46 30 Pershagen 2,263 1,697 39.1 59.9 87 75 25 33,898 49 31 Hovsjö N 1,601 926 58.3 38.1 52 7 93 10,065 27 32 Hovsjö S 1,911 969 52.7 44.4 60 7 93 15,504 27 33 Hovsjö-Tveta 2,432 1,505 39.7 58.4 66 23 77 19,871 31 35 Enhörna-Ekeby 1,565 1,156 40.0 59.6 86 69 31 29,901 35 36 Enhörna V 1,652 1,241 42.1 57.1 87 84 16 32,554 37 40 Vårdinge 2,207 1,571 52.8 45.7 79 78 22 27,448 38 41 Järna C 2,353 1,740 52.7 45.5 82 77 23 27,241 41 42 Järna N 1,851 1,104 58.4 37.0 70 61 39 22,304 32 43 Järna V 1,819 1,367 52.1 46.0 80 78 22 26,116 36 44 Järna-Kallfors 1,815 1,191 34.4 64.5 90 74 26 37,120 48 45 Järna landsbygd 2,237 1,632 52.0 44.6 78 72 28 26,583 43 47 Hölö V 2,601 1,760 42.5 56.5 86 75 25 29,859 33 48 Hölö-Mörkö 1,350 1,012 56.3 41.1 82 80 20 27,850 44 50 Geneta S 1,567 1,197 33.6 65.0 74 26 74 22,111 28 51 Geneta N 2,353 1,273 47.3 50.9 56 9 91 13,812 25 52 Bårstafältet 1,858 1,152 40.5 57.6 59 17 83 16,045 30 53 Ronna S 2,180 1,391 38.8 59.8 58 10 90 14,792 26 54 Ronna V 2,355 1,249 47.7 50.4 61 9 91 16,000 28 55 Ronna N 2,092 942 53.6 42.9 54 4 96 11,974 27 56 Ronna-Karlhov 2,238 1,419 41.8 56.1 67 23 77 19,824 30 57 Lina V 1,854 1,224 42.8 55.2 71 19 81 20,801 31 58 Lina Ö 1,741 1,257 34.2 64.6 74 29 71 22,435 35 Source: SVT

Population development

Population development in Södertälje Municipality 1970–2019

Year	Population
1970	75,751
1975	77,695
1980	80,045
1985	79,764
1990	81,786
1995	82,355
2000	77,882
2005	80,553
2010	86,246
2015	93,202
2017	96,032
2019	98,979
Source: SCB - Folkmängd efter region och år.

Localities

• Gnesta (minor part of)
• Hölö
• Järna
• Mölnbo
• Södertälje (seat)

Elections

Riksdag

These are the local results of the Riksdag elections since the 1972 municipality reform. The results of the Sweden Democrats were not published by SCB between 1988 and 1998 at a municipal level to the party's small nationwide size at the time. "Votes" denotes valid votes, whereas "Turnout" denotes also blank and invalid votes.

Year	Turnout	Votes	V	S	MP	C	L	KD	M	SD	ND
1973	90.2	42,332	6.5	46.0	0.0	23.2	8.1	1.5	13.9	0.0	0.0
1976	90.9	43,826	5.5	44.4	0.0	22.2	10.4	1.0	15.9	0.0	0.0
1979	89.5	43,789	6.6	46.5	0.0	14.8	10.1	1.2	19.9	0.0	0.0
1982	90.4	45,372	6.5	49.2	2.3	11.5	4.8	1.3	24.0	0.0	0.0
1985	88.8	46,230	6.3	47.1	1.9	7.1	15.6	0.0	21.0	0.0	0.0
1988	83.0	44,563	6.8	43.7	6.5	7.7	14.0	1.8	18.3	0.0	0.0
1991	83.9	45,204	4.3	40.3	4.1	5.3	9.6	5.0	22.9	0.0	7.9
1994	84.6	46,151	5.5	49.2	5.9	4.5	7.1	3.1	22.8	0.0	1.1
1998	77.2	39,428	10.3	41.4	5.4	3.4	3.9	10.3	22.5	0.0	0.0
2002	76.1	40,914	7.5	42.2	5.9	3.3	12.9	9.6	14.4	0.7	0.0
2006	77.5	42,920	5.6	36.0	6.4	5.4	7.2	7.2	26.8	1.9	0.0
2010	79.5	45,458	5.2	34.0	8.3	3.9	6.2	5.4	29.5	5.6	0.0
2014	77.9	47,151	5.8	32.0	7.3	3.8	4.7	6.9	23.1	12.4	0.0

Blocs

This lists the relative strength of the socialist and centre-right blocs since 1973, but parties not elected to the Riksdag are inserted as "other", including the Sweden Democrats results from 1988 to 2006, but also the Christian Democrats pre-1991 and the Greens in 1982, 1985 and 1991. The sources are identical to the table above. The coalition or government mandate marked in bold formed the government after the election. New Democracy got elected in 1991 but are still listed as "other" due to the short lifespan of the party. "Elected" is the total number of percentage points from the municipality that went to parties who were elected to the Riksdag.

Year	Turnout	Votes	Left	Right	SD	Other	Elected
1973	90.2	42,332	52.5	45.2	0.0	2.3	97.7
1976	90.9	43,826	49.9	48.5	0.0	1.6	98.4
1979	89.5	43,789	53.1	44.8	0.0	2.1	97.9
1982	90.4	45,372	55.7	40.3	0.0	4.0	96.0
1985	88.8	46,230	53.4	43.7	0.0	2.9	97.1
1988	83.0	44,563	57.0	40.0	0.0	3.0	97.0
1991	83.9	45,204	44.6	42.8	0.0	12.6	95.3
1994	84.6	46,151	60.6	37.5	0.0	1.9	98.1
1998	77.2	39,428	57.1	40.1	0.0	2.8	97.2
2002	76.1	40,914	55.6	40.2	0.0	4.2	95.8
2006	77.5	42,920	48.0	46.6	0.0	5.4	94.6
2010	79.5	45,458	47.5	45.0	5.6	1.9	98.1
2014	77.9	47,151	45.1	38.5	12.4	4.0	96.0

Notable people

• Björn Borg, former tennis player
• Johan Edlund, singer and leader of the bands Tiamat and Lucyfire
• Tom Wandell, NHL Player

International relations

The municipality is twinned with:

• Struer Municipality, Denmark
• Pärnu, Estonia
• Forssa, Finland
• Angers, France
• Sarpsborg, Norway

External links

• Södertälje Municipality - Official site