Sandviken Municipality

Sandviken Municipality

*Sandvikens kommun*
Sandviken Municipality Sandvikens kommun
Municipality
	Sandviken Railway Station
	Coat of arms
	Coordinates: 60°37′N 16°47′E / 60.617°N 16.783°E
Country	Sweden
County	Gävleborg County
Seat	Sandviken
Area
• Total	1,297.07 km2 (500.80 sq mi)
• Land	1,166.4 km2 (450.3 sq mi)
• Water	130.67 km2 (50.45 sq mi)
	Area as of 1 January 2014.
Population (31 December 2023)
• Total	38,628
• Density	30/km2 (77/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Gästrikland
Municipal code	2181
Website	www.sandviken.se

Sandviken Municipality (Sandvikens kommun) is a municipality in Gävleborg County, in east central Sweden. The seat is the town of Sandviken.

The present municipality was created in 1971 through the amalgamation of the City of Sandviken (itself instituted in 1943) with a number of surrounding rural municipalities.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms was granted to the then City of Sandviken upon its institution in 1943. The device in the middle is a steam hammer. After the municipality reform of 1971 the arms was taken over by the new, larger, entity.

Name

Sandviken means "sandy bay". There are numerous other places by that name throughout Scandinavia.

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Sandviken 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 29,612 Swedish citizens of voting age resident in the municipality.^[3] 50.2% voted for the left coalition and 48.6% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Location

%

Barrsätra

1,865

1,445

54.3

44.9

78

76

24

25,756

41

Björksätra

2,633

1,423

62.7

35.2

56

42

58

14,756

21

Gästrike-Hammarby

2,049

1,647

44.4

55.0

75

91

9

21,597

23

Jernvallen N

1,925

1,586

54.2

44.8

86

14

27,653

39

Jernvallen S

2,337

1,811

48.5

50.6

84

85

15

29,618

41

Jäderfors-Norrsätra

1,999

1,206

53.3

45.6

68

51

49

19,538

26

Järbo

2,600

2,043

41.9

56.7

83

91

9

25,689

28

Kungsgården-Åshammar

2,528

1,944

39.6

58.9

82

89

11

25,224

23

Murgården

2,542

1,404

66.6

31.6

55

36

64

14,309

19

Sandbacka

2,372

1,866

49.2

49.8

82

18

27,126

36

Sandviken C

2,069

1,835

54.5

44.0

72

28

22,038

30

Sandviken N

2,529

2,000

50.1

49.1

88

91

9

29,927

45

Stadsparken

1,879

1,655

62.3

36.6

74

78

22

19,961

31

Storvik N

1,672

1,321

48.0

50.7

83

90

10

26,163

32

Säljan

2,229

1,736

46.2

53.0

88

90

10

31,033

42

Vallhov

2,498

1,769

52.9

46.3

80

72

28

25,685

36

Årsunda

2,250

1,872

42.7

56.7

88

94

6

27,414

30

Österfärnebo

1,234

1,049

46.6

51.6

80

92

8

22,467

25

Source: SVT^[3]

Sports

Sandviken Municipality was one of the co-arrangers of the 2017 Bandy World Championship, which was held in Göransson Arena, a municipality owned bandy arena in Sandviken.^[4]