Hylte Municipality () is the only inland municipality of Halland County in southwest Sweden. The industrial town Hyltebruk is the seat of the municipality.
The first Hylte Municipality was created in 1952 through the amalgamation of three minor units in Jönköping County. In 1974 further amalgamations took place and the county boundary was redrawn.
Geography The municipality straddles the boundary of two historic provinces, Halland and Småland.
Localities There are 6 urban areas (also called a Tätort or locality) in Hylte 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 Hyltebruk 3,742 2 Torup 1,239 3 Unnaryd 760 4 Rydöbruk 385 5 Landeryd 372 6 Kinnared 297
Demographics This is a demographic table based on Hylte 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 10,590 residents, including 7,442 Swedish citizens of voting age. 44.1% voted for the left coalition and 55.0% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.
Location % % Hyltebruk 1,218 879 51.4 47.7 67 56 44 18,852 22Kinnared-Drängsered 1,013 723 36.6 62.1 79 78 22 23,897 27Landeryd-Långaryd 1,293 963 41.2 57.8 84 86 14 25,671 28Rydöbruk-Femsjö 841 578 38.3 61.5 78 73 27 23,231 27Staffansbo 1,491 1,073 46.1 53.5 83 70 30 25,927 24Torup 1,706 1,256 44.4 54.7 78 76 24 23,022 27Unnaryd-Jälluntofta 1,238 870 43.7 55.2 80 71 29 22,583 29Örnabäckshult 1,790 1,100 47.9 50.8 72 45 55 23,157 21Source: SVT
Notable people Elias Magnus Fries (1794–1878), mycologist and botanist
References
Statistics Sweden
External links
Hylte Municipality - Official site