Umeå Municipality

Umeå Municipality Umeå kommun
Municipality
Umeå City Hall
Coat of arms
Coordinates: 63°50′N 20°15′E
Country	Sweden
County	Västerbotten County
Seat	Umeå
Area
• Total	5,214.16 km2 (2,013.20 sq mi)
• Land	2,316.61 km2 (894.45 sq mi)
• Water	2,897.55 km2 (1,118.75 sq mi)
	Area as of 1 January 2014.
Population  (31 December 2023)
• Total	133,091
• Density	26/km2 (66/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Västerbotten and Ångermanland
Municipal code	2480
Website	www.umea.se/umeakommun

Umeå Municipality (Swedish: Umeå kommun, Northern Sami: Ubmi gielda) is a municipality in Västerbotten County in northern Sweden. Its seat is Umeå, which is also the county seat of Västerbotten County.

Administration

Umeå Town Hall

The municipality is an administrative entity defined by geographical borders, consisting of Umeå and a large area around it. The present municipality consists of many former local government units joined together in a series of municipal reforms carried out between 1952 and 1974.

A 65-member municipal assembly (kommunfullmäktige) is elected by proportional representation for a four-year term. The assembly appoints the 9-member executive committee (kommunstyrelsen) and the 7 governing commissioners. The executive committee and the commissioners are headed by the chairman (kommunstyrelsens ordförande), since 1996 Social Democrat Lennart Holmlund (b. 1946). Since the 2010 municipal election the municipality is headed by a Social Democratic-Left Party coalition a single seat short of absolute majority. Of the eight parties represented in the Riksdag since 2010, all but the Sweden Democrats are found in the assembly, as well as the breakaway Socialist Justice Party headed by former Social Democrat Jan Hägglund (holding its only seat), renamed the Workers' Party in 2011.

Localities

There are 20 localities (or urban areas) in Umeå Municipality:

#	Locality	Population
1	Umeå	75,645
2	Holmsund	5,482
3	Sävar	2,672
4	Hörnefors	2,573
5	Röbäck	2,300
6	Obbola	2,175
7	Ersmark	1,486
8	Täfteå	1,029
9	Tomtebo	633
10	Innertavle	549
11	Stöcke	477
12	Hissjön	447
13	Sörfors	397
14	Bullmark	343
15	Flurkmark	302
16	Tavelsjö	247
17	Sörmjöle	231
18	Västibyn	219
19	Botsmark	209
20	Stöcksjö	205

The municipal seat in bold

Other villages:

• Brännland
• Gravmark
• Gunnismark

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Umeå 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 130,881 residents, including 99,226 Swedish citizens of voting age. 65.9% voted for the left coalition and 32.9% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income. Umeå was the strongest municipality in Sweden for the left coalition, with a 33-point margin of advantage.

Location Residents Citizen
adults Left vote Right vote Employed Swedish
parents Foreign
heritage Income
SEK Degree % % Backen 1,314 1,046 65.7 33.8 85 93 7 26,144 60 Berghem N 2,218 1,685 71.4 27.4 71 84 16 25,876 76 Berghem S 1,237 1,035 75.4 23.7 68 83 17 21,671 75 Brinkvägen 1,322 1,180 61.0 38.0 80 89 11 24,094 58 Brännland 2,564 1,856 56.6 42.6 88 94 6 30,227 50 Bullmark 1,309 1,010 54.1 45.1 85 94 6 25,906 34 Böleå 1,796 1,650 58.7 40.5 82 92 8 25,203 46 Böleäng V 2,332 1,665 63.0 35.8 86 89 11 30,118 51 Böleäng Ö 1,680 1,257 63.6 35.6 85 88 12 28,486 53 Carlshem V 2,621 1,974 72.7 25.9 71 78 22 24,178 68 Carlshem Ö 1,584 1,149 73.1 25.6 68 74 26 22,804 64 Centrum 1,260 1,185 63.8 35.8 75 84 16 24,977 56 Centrum V 1,898 1,647 65.5 33.4 81 88 12 26,064 56 Centrum Ö 1,747 1,455 68.4 30.4 78 87 13 25,500 68 Dragonfältet 1,190 1,101 61.8 37.4 86 90 10 28,262 60 Ersboda M 2,182 1,585 72.2 25.9 73 70 30 22,911 41 Ersboda N 2,392 1,531 71.9 26.0 70 55 45 21,647 36 Ersboda V 2,302 1,708 69.6 29.4 78 78 22 25,511 48 Ersboda Ö 1,160 816 68.7 29.4 79 68 32 25,641 45 Ersmark 1,829 1,270 58.5 41.0 91 94 6 33,672 62 Grubbe N 1,676 1,298 59.6 39.6 83 93 7 29,367 56 Grubbe S 2,045 1,622 65.9 33.4 84 92 8 29,251 61 Haga N 1,534 1,348 69.3 29.8 77 90 10 24,702 63 Haga S 1,587 1,342 68.2 30.6 80 88 12 27,717 62 Haga Ö 1,574 1,333 69.1 29.7 77 88 12 24,461 64 Hissjö 1,358 1,033 55.0 44.6 91 95 5 29,640 47 Holmsund S 2,419 1,762 61.9 37.6 90 92 8 30,332 55 Holmsund V 2,047 1,508 63.6 35.0 76 84 16 23,301 40 Holmsund Ö 2,044 1,452 66.1 33.2 86 88 12 28,143 53 Hörnefors V 1,969 1,544 56.9 42.3 84 93 7 24,929 36 Hörnefors Ö 1,321 1,022 65.9 32.4 89 96 4 27,560 43 Innertavle-Tavleliden 2,376 1,485 65.8 33.6 91 89 11 34,467 69 Kronoparken 1,724 1,360 65.2 33.8 85 92 8 27,696 52 Marieberg 1,966 1,382 70.6 28.3 80 83 17 27,365 58 Mariedal 1,578 1,271 70.4 28.3 87 90 10 27,762 65 Mariehem 1,922 1,410 75.5 23.3 79 78 22 26,711 67 Mariehemshöjd 1,988 1,365 70.2 27.0 69 61 39 20,284 49 Mariestrand Olovsdal 2,303 1,976 66.2 32.9 61 78 22 18,838 67 Nydalahöjd 1,662 1,321 73.4 25.0 48 71 29 7,859 77 Obbola 2,851 2,132 63.4 36.1 87 90 10 28,808 46 Röbäck V-Skravelsjö 1,585 1,114 62.9 36.6 84 89 11 29,286 44 Röbäck Ö-Klabböle 1,463 1,026 57.8 41.4 90 93 7 31,829 57 Sandabrånet 2,138 1,732 70.7 27.2 79 88 12 25,377 60 Sandbacka 1,702 1,337 72.0 26.6 82 90 10 28,348 59 Sandåkern 1,384 1,246 59.8 38.9 85 91 9 27,386 53 Sofiehem 1,638 1,207 72.5 26.2 80 84 16 27,818 72 Stöcke 1,480 1,046 54.7 45.1 89 94 6 31,048 50 Stöcksjö-Degernäs 1,507 1,047 54.3 44.8 92 92 8 32,141 50 Sävar V 1,869 1,354 64.0 35.8 87 94 6 28,162 49 Sävar Ö 2,157 1,547 64.5 34.9 90 95 5 29,111 53 Södra Teg 1,057 856 57.4 41.4 81 88 12 24,556 41 Sörmjöle-Norrmjöle 1,445 1,198 59.2 40.4 89 94 6 29,278 49 Tavelsjö 2,426 1,828 55.4 43.6 90 96 4 28,890 41 Tomtebo 1,890 1,270 75.7 23.2 76 76 24 25,194 67 Tomtebo N 2,409 1,714 67.3 31.7 70 78 22 24,043 73 Tomtebo S 1,754 1,237 73.4 25.7 84 83 17 30,102 72 Täfteå 1,754 1,219 62.7 36.2 89 95 5 33,106 60 Umedalen V 2,335 1,598 65.3 33.4 81 84 16 28,092 56 Umedalen Ö 1,712 1,208 68.4 28.6 78 80 20 24,919 46 Universitetsområdet 2,232 1,813 68.4 30.5 39 69 31 6,214 77 Universitetsom. Ö 1,707 1,461 75.0 22.9 58 77 23 14,467 69 Västerslätt 1,918 1,463 66.3 33.3 87 93 7 29,968 57 Västteg 1,669 1,486 60.5 38.8 83 92 8 27,339 51 Ytterhiske 1,247 1,060 66.1 32.4 80 88 12 25,077 52 Yttersjö 1,708 1,207 59.8 39.2 91 95 5 30,333 47 Ålidhem S 1,993 1,378 76.8 20.9 65 60 40 18,647 59 Ålidhem V 1,965 1,199 71.8 25.7 35 50 50 4,821 72 Ålidhem Ö 2,415 1,449 76.7 20.7 45 46 54 6,843 66 Öbacka-Rosendal 1,715 1,402 76.6 22.5 78 87 13 25,795 67 Öbackastrand 1,418 1,180 65.8 33.0 78 83 17 28,161 72 Östermalm-Fridhem 1,342 1,099 69.3 30.0 73 84 16 24,627 69 Östteg 1,966 1,474 60.6 39.0 86 90 10 31,859 64 Source: SVT

International relations

Main article: List of twin towns and sister cities in Sweden

Twin towns — Sister cities

Umeå Municipality is twinned with:

• Saskatoon, Canada
• Qufu, People's Republic of China
• Helsingør Municipality, Denmark
• Vaasa, Finland
• Würzburg, Germany
• Guanajuato, Mexico
• Harstad, Norway
• Petrozavodsk, Russia
• Osmangazi (Bursa), Turkey
• Nilufer (Bursa), Turkey

Vänortsparken in Umeå.

In Twin Towns' Park (Vänortsparken) is the artwork Tellus: it is a map of the world, with each sister city's location. Each sister city also has a designated themed area in the park.

See also

• Blue Highway, tourist route (Norway - Sweden - Finland - Russia)

External links

• Umeå Municipality - Official site