Piteå Municipality (; ) is a municipality in Norrbotten County in northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Piteå.
Localities There are 14 localities (or urban areas) in Piteå Municipality:Statistics Sweden as of 31 December 2005
# Locality Population 1 Piteå 22,650 2 Bergsviken 2,317 3 Rosvik 1,766 4 Norrfjärden 1,423 5 Hortlax 1,247 6 Roknäs 1,242 7 Jävre 572 8 Lillpite 454 9 Böle 418 10 Hemmingsmark 398 11 Sjulsmark 369 12 Svensbyn 362 13 Blåsmark 332 14 Sikfors 211
The municipal seat in bold
Demographics This is a demographic table based on Piteå 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 42,282 residents, including 33,405 Swedish citizens of voting age. 63.9% voted for the left coalition and 35.0% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.
Location % % Backen Annelund 1,891 1,444 66.1 33.3 86 90 10 27,146 39Backen Källbo 1,824 1,603 64.9 33.9 84 89 11 23,899 37Bergsviken V 1,417 1,078 65.5 33.7 88 95 5 29,339 39Bergsviken Ö 1,138 910 64.4 34.8 88 96 4 29,878 44Blåsmark 968 727 70.2 29.3 89 96 4 27,716 33Djupviken N 2,046 1,608 66.7 32.2 71 88 12 23,353 49Djupviken S 1,804 1,358 65.8 33.6 87 92 8 30,681 50Hortlax 2,002 1,507 61.1 38.0 90 96 4 28,773 39Häggholmen V 1,783 1,583 68.9 30.2 77 88 12 21,053 31Häggholmen Ö 1,613 1,499 76.8 22.0 65 88 12 18,462 31Jävre 1,026 807 64.7 34.3 88 95 5 27,839 39Klubbgärdet 1,466 1,167 59.8 38.8 84 92 8 28,845 39Munksund N 1,675 1,331 65.6 34.0 81 93 7 26,146 37Munksund S 1,596 1,289 60.1 39.0 87 92 8 29,291 35Norrmalm 849 746 68.4 30.6 81 91 9 24,826 39Pitholm 1,705 1,352 66.4 32.6 86 93 7 31,032 47Porsnäs V 1,199 879 61.5 36.9 86 92 8 25,800 36Porsnäs Ö 1,301 1,029 62.5 36.2 91 97 3 29,044 44Roknäs Lillpite 1,734 1,416 60.1 38.1 82 94 6 24,998 27Rosvik 2,161 1,592 55.3 43.9 85 90 10 26,408 36Sjulnäs Böle 1,772 1,313 63.1 35.0 90 97 3 29,512 34Sjulsmark 1,759 1,372 57.0 40.8 85 95 5 26,567 32Strömnäs 1,620 1,241 60.7 38.6 84 90 10 29,709 51Svensbyn 938 738 66.8 32.9 86 97 3 29,726 37Öjebyn C 1,263 912 66.4 32.2 68 85 15 22,030 26Öjebyn N 1,948 1,479 64.3 34.7 76 87 13 23,049 30Öjebyn S 1,784 1,425 66.3 32.8 77 90 10 25,039 28Source: SVT
Twin towns – sister cities
Piteå is twinned with: Grindavík, Iceland Kandalaksha, Russia (Paused due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine) Saint Barthélemy, France
Notable natives Lina Andersson, cross-country skier Christopher Jacob Boström, philosopher Curt Boström, politician Moki Cherry, artist Nicolai Dunger, artist Nils Edén, politician Tomas Holmström, ice hockey player Niklas Jonsson, cross-country skier Liza Marklund, author Peter Mattei, opera singer Stefan Persson, ice hockey player Mikael Renberg, ice hockey player Daniel Solander, botanist Mattias Öhlund, ice hockey player
See also List of islands of the Piteå archipelago Gråträsk
References
External links
Piteå Municipality – Official site