Eksjö Municipality () is a municipality in Jönköping County, southern Sweden, where the town Eksjö is seat.
The present municipality was created in 1971 when the former City of Eksjö was amalgamated with three neighboring municipalities.
Localities There are 6 urban areas (also called a Tätort or locality) in Eksjö Municipality.
In the table the localities are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters.
# Locality Population 1 Eksjö 9,676 2 Mariannelund 1,554 3 Ingatorp 501 4 Hult 473 5 Hjältevad 345 6 Bruzaholm 274
Demographics This is a demographic table based on Eksjö 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 17,823 residents, including 13,389 Swedish citizens of voting age. 44.2% voted for the left coalition and 53.9% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.
Location % % Blåsippan 1,360 885 50.8 45.2 68 58 42 20,500 36Gamla Stan 2,033 1,519 53.0 44.2 74 68 32 20,226 38Grevhagen 1,899 1,421 45.5 52.5 84 84 16 26,612 44Hult 988 756 42.4 56.4 85 90 10 26,812 34Höreda 1,530 1,208 38.5 60.3 91 96 4 28,873 36Ingatorp 1,658 1,284 39.9 59.0 73 78 22 21,340 23Kaffekullen 1,216 951 38.8 60.4 90 93 7 29,799 46Kvarnarp 1,462 1,104 45.6 52.9 87 86 14 27,612 40Mariannelund 1,938 1,347 46.1 51.6 73 77 23 21,475 25Norrtull 1,482 1,117 47.0 51.1 82 82 18 26,457 42Sjöängen 2,257 1,797 40.0 58.5 81 83 17 26,122 45Source: SVT
Natives Albert Engström (1869-1940) was an author, poet and drawer and subsequently member of the Swedish Academy, who grew up in a small village outside of the city Eksjö.
Sister cities Marstal, in Denmark Barlinek, in Poland (See sister city.)
References Statistics Sweden
External links
Official Eksjö Municipality website