Säffle Municipality

Säffle Municipality Säffle kommun
Municipality
Säffle town hall
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Coordinates: 59°08′N 12°56′E
Country	Sweden
County	Värmland County
Seat	Säffle
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Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
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ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Värmland and Dalsland
Municipal code	1785
Website	www.saffle.se

Säffle Municipality (Template:Langx) is a municipality in Värmland County in west central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Säffle.

Säffle was the last local government unit in Sweden to get the title of a city, in 1951. In 1952 the system with different types of municipalities was made obsolete, but it formally existed until 1971. The present municipality was created in that year, when the city was amalgamated with the surrounding rural municipalities.

The municipality covers a peninsula in Lake Vänern (Värmlandsnäs), and has a large fresh water archipelago.

Värmlandsnäs

Värmlandsnäs, also called Näset, is a big and important part of the municipality. The area which reaches out into the middle of Lake Vänern as a big peninsula is very significant to the economy by the produce of pork. The area supplies more than 200,000 people with pork.

Näset also has an archipelago on the east side. The boat people talk very well of Millesvik Archipelago (Millesviks skärgård), which also has a lot of old runestones and other ancient monuments.

From Ekenäs harbor you can take the tourist boat to Lurö, a small island in Lake Vänern. At Lurö you can dine and stay over night.

Many people who visit Värmlandsnäs in the summer wants to take a swim in Lake Vänern. The opportunities are plenty and good. At Ekenäs you will find a very nice bathing place. From this place you can almost walk all the way out to Lurö. Other popular bathing places are Ekôrn and the bathing place at Örud near Örö harbor (Örö hamn).

Localities

• Säffle, pop. 9,500 (seat)
• Värmlandsbro, 630
• Svanskog, ca 600
• Nysäter, ca 200
• Hulta

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Säffle 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 15,390 residents, including 11,665 Swedish citizens of voting age. 42.7% voted for the left coalition and 56.2% 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 % % Annelund 2,212 1,730 40.6 59.1 81 88 12 25,029 24 Höglunda 2,198 1,515 48.3 49.9 67 72 28 20,926 29 Nysäter 1,329 1,063 37.4 61.7 80 91 9 21,575 30 Svaneholm 991 760 38.2 61.3 80 91 9 21,198 22 Tegnér 2,297 1,697 45.0 54.2 77 84 16 24,712 35 Tingvalla 2,513 1,969 44.6 54.1 74 82 18 21,577 27 Trätälja 1,620 1,167 52.1 46.1 58 66 34 18,040 23 Värmlandsnäs N 1,233 977 37.4 61.3 79 93 7 22,873 22 Värmlandsnäs S 997 787 32.9 66.4 84 92 8 24,231 30 Source: SVT

International relations

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Sweden

Twin towns — Sister cities

Säffle Municipality is twinned with:

	Hol, Norway
	Tørring, Denmark
	Mäntyharju, Finland
	Antsla, Estonia

External links

• Säffle Municipality - Official site