Älmhult Municipality () is a municipality in central Kronoberg County in southern Sweden. The town of Älmhult is its seat.
In 1901, Älmhult was detached from Stenbrohult and made a market town (köping). The present municipality was created by the local government reform of 1971, when Älmhult was amalgamated with the surrounding rural municipalities.
Of historical significance is that the botanist Carl von Linné was born and grew up in the parish of Stenbrohult in the early 18th century. Today, the estate on which he was born and lived his first months has been turned into a museum at Råshult and is still surrounded by the same meadows and fields as 300 years ago.
Allegedly, the area has a variety of different specimens of plants, likely to trigger the interest of a botanical minded youngster. The geography is probably not distinguished from its neighbouring municipalities, however. Like all other Småland municipalities, it contains a variety of lakes, streams and especially forests.
The first IKEA store was opened in Älmhult by Ingvar Kamprad, who grew up in the municipality.
Localities
There are 5 urban areas (also called a Tätort or locality) in Älmhult Municipality.
In the table the localities are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2014.Älmhult Kommun Fakta och statistik The municipal seat is in bold characters.
# Locality Population 1 Älmhult 9,374 2 Diö 899 3 Liatorp 527 4 Eneryda 323 5 Delary 208
Demographics This is a demographic table based on Älmhult 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 17,950 residents, including 12,132 Swedish citizens of voting age. 45.3% voted for the left coalition and 53.5% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.
Location % % Centrum 1,421 987 50.1 49.1 76 62 38 23,316 42Diö-Stenbrohult 1,918 1,363 43.9 55.2 84 82 18 26,965 38Froafälle 1,576 1,131 47.0 51.7 82 70 30 26,864 39Gemön-Möckeln 1,839 1,302 48.3 51.0 84 65 35 28,116 43Göteryd 1,594 1,188 34.3 64.3 82 83 17 24,561 32Haganäs 2,508 1,224 58.2 38.9 58 29 71 16,449 42Häradsbäck 1,368 1,031 33.4 65.1 87 88 12 25,949 35Klöxhult 2,174 1,395 45.6 53.6 85 71 29 31,303 47Norregård 1,850 1,212 45.9 53.9 89 71 29 34,917 57Virestad-Eneryda 1,702 1,299 46.5 52.3 83 84 16 24,702 30Source: SVT
Notable natives Carl Linnaeus Ingvar Kamprad
References Statistics Sweden
External links
Älmhult Municipality - Official site Älmhult.com