Arvika Municipality

Municipality in Värmland County, Sweden

Arvika Municipality Arvika kommun
Municipality
Arvika Town Hall
Coat of arms

Coordinates: 59°39′N 12°35′E / 59.650°N 12.583°E / 59.650; 12.583
Country	Sweden
County	Värmland County
Seat	Arvika
Area ^[1]
• Total	1,956.13 km² (755.27 sq mi)
• Land	1,649.06 km² (636.71 sq mi)
• Water	307.07 km² (118.56 sq mi)
	Area as of 1 January 2014.
Population (31 December 2023)^[2]
• Total	25,682
• Density	13/km² (34/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Värmland
Municipal code	1784
Website	www.arvika.se

Arvika Municipality (Arvika kommun) is a municipality in Värmland County in west central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Arvika.

The present municipality was created in 1971 when the former City of Arvika was amalgamated with five rural municipalities of Glava, Gunnarskog, Älgå, Brunskog and Stavnäs.

Arvika is most known for the annual Arvika Festival that attracts international artists.

Localities

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Arvika Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.^[3]

In total there were 25,838 residents, including 19,885 Swedish citizens of voting age.^[3] 50.5% voted for the left coalition and 48.6% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Location

Residents

Citizen
adults

Left vote

Right vote

Employed

Swedish
parents

Foreign
heritage

Income
SEK

Degree

Agneteberg

2,520

1,866

50.5

48.8

23,474

Degerängen

1,424

1,010

57.3

41.7

25,911

Dottevik

1,552

1,120

54.5

43.8

20,548

Edane-Mangskog

2,670

2,028

50.3

49.0

25,446

Glava

972

724

46.9

51.9

20,590

Gunnarskog-Bogen

1,937

1,518

41.8

57.7

24,764

Haga

1,260

1,030

51.4

47.5

23,790

Jössefors

1,325

991

43.0

56.4

26,552

Minneberg

1,464

1,176

53.3

45.0

21,998

Rosendal

1,255

1,017

52.8

46.5

25,712

Solberga

1,986

1,686

57.8

41.0

19,079

Solvik

1,615

1,249

50.7

48.8

28,410

Stavnäs-Högerud

1,418

1,091

47.3

52.0

25,712

Styckåsen

1,382

1,134

61.1

38.5

18,497

Taserud

1,340

953

52.0

47.3

28,520

Älgå-Ny

1,718

1,292

42.5

57.3

26,020

Source: SVT^[3]

Notable natives

Kenny Bräck, racing driver
Per Eklund, rally and rallycross driver
Tommy Kristoffersson, rallycross and racing driver
Håkan Hagegård, opera singer
Kjellaug Nordsjö, icon painter
August Warberg, actor
Jacob de la Rose, ice hockey player

Politics

Result of the 2018 municipality election (loss or gain from 2014 elections):^[4]

Moderate Party 18.36% (+3.35%)
Centre Party 12.46% (+2.02%)
Liberals 3.37% (−1.04%)
Christian Democrats 2.84% (+0.92%)
Swedish Social Democratic Party 39.18% (−7.53%)
Left Party 6.75% (−0.35%)
Green Party 3.05% (−2.32%)
Sweden Democrats 11.95% (+3.38%)
Feminist Initiative 1.87 (+1.66%)
Other parties 0.16% (−0.08%)

References

^ "Statistiska centralbyrån, Kommunarealer den 1 januari 2014" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. 1 January 2014. Archived from the original (Microsoft Excel) on 27 September 2016. Retrieved 18 April 2014.
^ "Folkmängd och befolkningsförändringar - Kvartal 4, 2023" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. 22 February 2024. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Valresultat 2022 för Arvika i riksdagsvalet" (in Swedish). SVT. 11 September 2022. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
^ "Valresultat – Arvika – Kommunval 2018". Valmyndigheten.