Östhammar Municipality () 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.
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 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.
In total there were 17,497 Swedish citizens of voting age resident in the municipality. 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 % % Alunda-Ekeby 2,138 1,651 35.8 63.0 88 94 6 26,935 29Alunda tätort 2,544 1,829 39.0 59.9 88 92 8 26,275 32Ed 1,588 1,211 42.4 57.0 90 89 11 27,948 30Gimo-Hökhuvud-Vattensta 1,611 1,240 44.8 54.3 88 86 14 27,335 23Gimo V 1,812 1,306 45.1 54.0 76 71 29 23,488 22Hargshamn-Boda 1,387 1,131 45.5 53.4 86 89 11 25,644 29Kristinelund-Boda 1,534 1,101 46.5 52.5 78 80 20 23,682 32Norrskedika-Valö-Forsmark 1,332 1,131 40.5 58.6 85 92 8 25,930 23Öregrund N-Gräsö 1,408 1,261 42.9 56.6 84 94 6 23,926 30Öregrund S-Söderön 1,785 1,450 39.7 59.9 87 92 8 26,182 30Österbybruk-Dannemora 2,076 1,584 42.5 56.1 86 85 15 24,980 21Österbybruk-Morkarla 1,667 1,315 40.0 57.8 85 87 13 25,694 20Östhammars C 1,470 1,287 47.1 52.3 85 90 10 23,710 29Source: SVT
Climate Österbybruk has a humid continental climate that is quite mild throughout the year, especially considering its northerly latitude.
References
External links
Östhammar Municipality - Official site