Sandviken Municipality
Sandvikens kommun
Municipality
Sandviken Railway Station
Sandviken Railway Station
Coat of arms of Sandviken Municipality
Coat of arms
Coordinates: 60°37′N 16°47′E / 60.617°N 16.783°E / 60.617; 16.783
CountrySweden
CountyGävleborg County
SeatSandviken
Area
[1]
 • Total1,297.07 km2 (500.80 sq mi)
 • Land1,166.4 km2 (450.3 sq mi)
 • Water130.67 km2 (50.45 sq mi)
 Area as of 1 January 2014.
Population
 (31 December 2021)[2]
 • Total39,250
 • Density30/km2 (78/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 codeSE
ProvinceGästrikland
Municipal code2181
Websitewww.sandviken.se

Sandviken Municipality (Sandvikens kommun) is a municipality in Gävleborg County, in east central Sweden. The seat is the town of Sandviken.

The present municipality was created in 1971 through the amalgamation of the City of Sandviken (itself instituted in 1943) with a number of surrounding rural municipalities.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms was granted to the then City of Sandviken upon its institution in 1943. The device in the middle is a steam hammer. After the municipality reform of 1971 the arms was taken over by the new, larger, entity.

Name

Sandviken means "sandy bay". There are numerous other places by that name throughout Scandinavia.

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Sandviken Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.[3]

Residents include everyone registered as living in the district, regardless of age or citizenship status. Valid voters indicate Swedish citizens above the age of 18 who therefore can vote in general elections. Left vote and right vote indicate the result between the two major blocs in said district in the 2022 general election. Employment indicates the share of people between the ages of 20 and 64 who are working taxpayers. Foreign background is defined as residents either born abroad or with two parents born outside of Sweden. Median income is the received monthly income through either employment, capital gains or social grants for the median adult above 20, also including pensioners in Swedish kronor. The section about college graduates indicates any degree accumulated after high school.

In total there were 29,612 Swedish citizens of voting age resident in the municipality.[3] 50.2 % voted for the left coalition and 48.6 % for the right coalition.

Sports

Sandviken Municipality was one of the co-arrangers of the 2017 Bandy World Championship, which was held in Göransson Arena, a municipality owned bandy arena in Sandviken.[4]

See also

  • Sandvik - engineering company founded in Sandviken

References

  1. ↑ "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.
  2. ↑ "Folkmängd i riket, län och kommuner 31 december 2021" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. February 22, 2022. Retrieved February 22, 2022.
  3. 1 2 3 "Valresultat 2022 för Sandviken i riksdagsvalet" (in Swedish). SVT. 11 September 2022. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  4. ↑ "Bandy-VM 2017 till Sandviken" (in Swedish). Sandviken Municipality. 20 May 2015. Retrieved 21 November 2015.


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