Alingsås Municipality () is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Alingsås.
History The present municipality was formed in 1974 then the former City of Alingsås (itself a municipality of unitary type since the subdivision reform of 1971) was amalgamated with Bjärke and Hemsjö.
The two highest-ranking politicians of the municipality resigned in January 2025 after reporting by Göteborgs-Posten about alleged inappropriate content in secret group chats.
Location, population Alingsås is part (together with 12 other municipalities) of the Gothenburg Metropolitan Area with 900,000 inhabitants. As of 31 December 2021 Alingsås Municipality had 41,853 inhabitants, most of which lived in Alingsås city (ca 25,000).
Demographics This is a demographic table based on Alingsås 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 41,777 residents, including 31,871 Swedish citizens of voting age. 49.1% voted for the left coalition and 49.4% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.
Location % % Anten/Gräfsnäs 1,128 892 46.3 50.8 83 88 12 25,572 40Bälinge/Gråbo 1,173 888 50.8 48.0 87 89 11 27,542 44Centrum N 1,837 1,598 48.6 49.8 84 87 13 24,145 40Centrum S/Tuvebo 1,889 1,594 50.3 48.7 83 87 13 24,963 39Dammen/Prästeryd 2,201 1,681 51.6 47.5 89 90 10 31,086 56Erska/Sollebrunn 1,928 1,443 44.0 54.6 82 87 13 23,944 27Hemsjö S 1,703 1,343 42.5 56.5 87 92 8 29,075 41Hemsjö/V Bodarne 1,719 1,286 50.9 48.3 85 91 9 31,857 61Ingared 1,924 1,344 52.6 46.5 90 90 10 30,612 58Kullingsberg/Hedvigsberg 2,269 1,593 50.0 49.5 86 87 13 31,416 58Kvarnbacken 1,636 1,210 52.3 46.6 90 86 14 29,486 51Långared 1,345 1,014 38.7 59.7 86 91 9 26,482 42Nolby V/Bolltorp 1,974 1,481 52.4 46.5 86 84 16 27,044 41Nolby Ö/Rödene 1,402 1,118 52.9 45.5 88 88 12 26,070 43Noltorp V 1,817 1,368 59.6 38.5 73 67 33 20,513 36Noltorp Ö 1,342 1,006 55.6 41.2 71 66 34 20,297 31Stadsskogen/Lövekulle 2,155 1,558 43.2 55.8 88 85 15 32,391 56Stockslycke/Holmalund 1,976 1,525 51.0 45.7 71 71 29 21,879 28Stora Mellby/Magra 1,751 1,320 38.8 59.7 85 93 7 24,714 29Sörhaga 1,652 1,409 47.5 50.7 83 89 11 27,532 50Tegelbruket/Simmenäs 1,634 1,196 46.7 52.6 87 85 15 28,645 44Ängabo/Maryd 1,688 1,239 53.1 46.0 88 88 12 29,154 50Ödenäs/Skaftared 1,787 1,359 42.4 55.6 85 89 11 27,155 44Östlyckan/Brogården 1,847 1,406 56.9 41.0 70 62 38 20,575 28Source: SVT
Sister cities Alingsås has seven sister cities: Leisi, Estonia Karis, Finland Kartong, Gambia Mont-de-Marsan, France Ocatal, Nicaragua Skedsmo, Norway Tårnby, Denmark
References
External links
Alingsås Municipality - Official site Articles Alingsås and Alingsås manufakturverk - From Nordisk familjebok