Enköping Municipality

Municipality in Uppsala County, Sweden

Enköping Municipality Enköpings kommun
Municipality
Enköping Town Hall
Coat of arms

Coordinates: 59°38′N 17°05′E / 59.633°N 17.083°E / 59.633; 17.083
Country	Sweden
County	Uppsala County
Seat	Enköping
Area ^[1]
• Total	1,323.82 km² (511.13 sq mi)
• Land	1,178.5 km² (455.0 sq mi)
• Water	145.32 km² (56.11 sq mi)
	Area as of 1 January 2014.
Population (31 December 2023)^[2]
• Total	48,292
• Density	36/km² (94/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Uppland
Municipal code	0381
Website	www.enkoping.se

Enköping Municipality (Enköpings kommun) is a municipality in Uppsala County in east central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Enköping.

The present municipality consists of nearly forty original local government units. They were grouped into greater municipalities in 1952 and Enköping Municipality was created in 1971 when the City of Enköping was amalgamated with five surrounding units.

Localities

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Enköping 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 34,998 Swedish citizens of voting age resident in the municipality.^[3] 42.2% voted for the left coalition and 56.4% 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

Bergvreten

2,214

1,594

45.3

53.7

27,738

Bredsand

1,879

1,341

33.9

65.4

33,585

Enögla

2,101

1,441

50.1

48.1

19,652

Fanna

1,887

1,523

43.4

55.7

28,953

Fjärdhundra

1,977

1,482

37.9

60.8

24,640

Grillby

2,115

1,579

36.4

62.2

28,387

Gånsta

1,869

1,343

41.8

57.4

31,116

Hummelsta

1,930

1,447

38.2

61.1

27,179

Korsängen

2,207

1,344

52.6

45.3

21,831

Kryddgården

1,851

1,692

44.7

54.2

22,872

Lillkyrka

2,268

1,760

37.6

61.5

28,016

Munksundet

2,335

1,851

44.1

54.9

28,570

Romberga

2,394

1,507

53.5

41.5

19,172

S:t Ilian N

2,127

1,748

41.7

56.6

25,809

S:t Ilian S

1,664

1,407

44.4

54.4

22,253

Skolsta

1,792

1,380

33.1

66.3

28,533

Sparrsätra

1,458

1,123

35.1

64.2

28,165

Svinnegarn

1,524

1,138

38.4

60.0

30,905

Torstuna

1,754

1,363

38.6

60.1

27,334

Västerleden N

1,882

1,278

49.3

48.5

22,406

Västerleden S

2,288

1,353

54.7

41.0

20,294

Åkersberg

1,413

972

41.4

57.3

29,027

Örsundsbro V

2,135

1,618

39.5

59.2

27,719

Örsundsbro Ö

2,327

1,714

40.9

57.5

27,683

Source: SVT^[3]

Sister cities

Kaarina, Finland
Ølstykke, Denmark (about to change due to the upcoming major municipality changes in Denmark)
Nedre Eiker, Norway
Jõgeva, Estonia
Santa Rosa, Philippines

(Source:[1])

Sports

The most successful sports team of the city has for several years been the football team Enköpings SK, with one peak season in the Swedish Premier Division (Allsvenskan) in 2003. Unfortunately, the team has now faced the harsh reality of sports and economics and will be playing in Division 2 in 2008. Their home arena is called Enavallen and is situated in downtown Enköping.

References

^ "Statistiska centralbyrån, Kommunarealer den 1 januari 2014" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. 2014-01-01. Archived from the original (Microsoft Excel) on 2016-09-27. Retrieved 2014-04-18.
^ "Folkmängd och befolkningsförändringar - Kvartal 4, 2023" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. February 22, 2024. Retrieved February 22, 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Valresultat 2022 för Enköping i riksdagsvalet" (in Swedish). SVT. 11 September 2022. Retrieved 29 November 2023.