Hofors Municipality () is a municipality in Gävleborg County, east central Sweden. Its seat is in Hofors with 7,400 inhabitants, situated at .
The first municipality with the name of Hofors was broken away from Torsåker in 1925. In 1971 the two entities were reunited to form the present municipality.
The coat of arms stem from 1968, and is derived from a map from 1539, where the town Hofors was surrounded by iron mines. ().
Geography Nearest cities are Gävle, 50 kilometers away, and Falun, 30 kilometers away.
Localities Hofors (seat) Torsåker
Demographics This is a demographic table based on Hofors 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 7,375 Swedish citizens of voting age resident in the municipality. 50.8% voted for the left coalition and 48.1% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.
Location % % Hofors C 1,982 1,442 58.6 39.6 70 68 32 20,254 18Hofors N 1,915 1,536 53.0 46.5 87 85 15 28,454 29Hofors S 1,972 1,510 49.2 49.7 86 87 13 27,872 23Hofors V 1,488 1,111 55.1 43.3 65 63 37 18,651 18Torsåker 2,205 1,776 44.3 54.9 85 94 6 25,849 29Source: SVT
Sister cities Two sister cities: Denmark: Fladså, Finland: Kontiolahti
Until recently, Tokke Municipality in Norway was a sister city, but it has for some reason been discontinued. (Source: )
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