Ystad Municipality () is a municipality in Scania County in southern Sweden. Its seat is the town of Ystad. The present municipality was created in 1971 by the amalgamation of the former City of Ystad with four surrounding municipalities.

Localities

There were ten localities in the municipality as of 2018.

Demographics This is a demographic table based on Ystad 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 31,531 residents, including 25,215 Swedish citizens of voting age. 39.4% voted for the left coalition and 59.5% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Location % %Bellevue N 2,075 1,718 39.2 59.5 84 88 12 26,874 42Bellevue S 1,315 1,088 46.0 53.1 82 87 13 25,074 43Edvinshem N 1,453 1,229 45.1 54.5 87 91 9 25,068 39Edvinshem SÖ-Gjuteriet 1,629 1,389 44.6 54.2 80 83 17 22,409 41Egna hem-Solbacken SÖ 1,245 972 44.7 54.1 88 89 11 28,768 52Gamla staden V 1,801 1,532 47.7 51.0 75 83 17 21,679 40Gamla staden Ö 1,861 1,568 42.7 55.9 78 83 17 22,554 39Glemmingebro-Ingelstorp 1,329 1,030 39.6 59.2 78 84 16 22,646 42Hälsobacken 1,310 1,052 42.9 56.3 88 87 13 25,887 43Köpingebro 1,323 940 33.4 65.1 87 88 12 27,175 37Löderup 1,171 994 39.3 60.2 77 86 14 22,864 39Nybrostrand-St Köpinge 2,000 1,570 30.0 69.3 84 92 8 28,089 45Solbacken N 1,589 1,242 40.9 57.1 83 85 15 26,648 42St Herrestad-Hedskoga 2,221 1,588 33.8 65.2 89 91 9 29,677 43Surbrunnen-Ö förstaden N 2,159 1,869 41.1 58.2 81 87 13 22,465 37Svarte-Snårestad 2,193 1,631 37.3 61.9 83 89 11 29,810 50Sövestad-Baldringe 1,401 1,094 32.7 65.9 87 91 9 27,432 39V Sjöstaden-Åkerholm 1,804 1,365 33.9 64.8 85 84 16 27,430 44Ö Förstaden S-Regementet 1,652 1,344 39.4 60.0 71 75 25 22,285 36Source: SVT

International relations

Twin towns — sister cities Ystad is twinned with: Druskininkai Świnoujście Haugesund Ballerup

References

External links

Ystad Municipality - Official site Österlen - Official site Kurt Wallander English Language site for fans of Henning Mankell's detective series, including information on, and photographs of, Ystad Branagh's Wallander - Website relating to the BBC's English language Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh