Flen Municipality

Municipality in Södermanland County, Sweden

Flen Municipality Flens kommun
Municipality

Coat of arms

Coordinates: 59°03′N 16°35′E / 59.050°N 16.583°E / 59.050; 16.583
Country	Sweden
County	Södermanland County
Seat	Flen
Area ^[1]
• Total	826.04 km² (318.94 sq mi)
• Land	718.83 km² (277.54 sq mi)
• Water	107.21 km² (41.39 sq mi)
	Area as of 1 January 2014.
Population (31 December 2023)^[2]
• Total	15,668
• Density	19/km² (49/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Södermanland
Municipal code	0482
Website	www.flen.se

Flen Municipality (Flens kommun) is a municipality in central Södermanland County in southeast Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Flen.

The present municipality was formed in 1971 through the amalgamation of the City of Flen (instituted in 1949), the market town (köping) Malmköping and the surrounding countryside, including a southeastern portion of the former Oppunda hundred that was split between Flen and Nyköping municipalities. It also includes all of the former Villåttinge hundred.

Geography

Flen Municipality is a lowland inland municipality that falls to 19 metres (62 ft) above sea level on the lakes of Långhalsen and Torpfjärden in the southeastern area.^[3] The highest peak is at 103 metres (338 ft) on the tripoint between Flen, Gnesta and Strängnäs municipalities.^[4]

Localities

Figures from Statistics Sweden, 2004.

Flen 6,107
Malmköping 2,006
Hälleforsnäs 1,737
Sparreholm 799
Skebokvarn 225
Mellösa 549
Bettna 410
Vadsbro 118

Of these places, Malmköping, located about 15 km north of Flen, surpasses Flen as a tourism attraction due to its two annual markets. The traditions of markets in Malmköping goes back centuries, as Malmköping got market town rights (became a köping) already in 1785.

Elections

The following results are since the 1972 municipal reform onwards.

Riksdag

Year	Turnout	Votes	V	S	MP	C	L	KD	M	SD	NyD	Left	Right
1973^[5]	93.5	11,513	3.2	49.4		26.8	8.0	1.8	10.6			52.6	45.4
1976^[6]	93.1	11,658	2.8	49.2		26.9	8.1	1.6	11.3			52.0	46.3
1979^[7]	92.3	11,747	3.5	49.5		21.9	8.5	1.5	14.6			53.0	45.0
1982^[8]	93.2	11,762	4.0	52.1	1.6	18.5	4.4	1.6	17.5			56.1	40.4
1985^[9]	91.2	11,499	4.2	51.9	1.8	15.3	10.6		15.4			56.1	41.3
1988^[10]	87.3	10,821	5.0	50.2	5.2	14.3	9.3	2.3	13.2			60.4	36.8
1991^[11]	87.0	10,765	4.1	45.4	3.1	11.8	7.0	6.4	15.6		6.1	49.5	40.8
1994^[12]	87.7	10,924	6.1	52.1	5.0	9.2	5.1	3.6	17.1		0.7	63.2	35.0
1998^[13]	81.4	9,924	12.1	43.3	4.9	6.8	2.7	11.2	17.6			60.3	38.3
2002^[14]	80.3	9,724	7.5	48.1	4.5	7.5	9.2	8.6	12.1	1.0		60.1	37.4
2006^[15]	81.9	9,911	5.4	46.5	4.3	8.7	4.9	5.6	20.2	2.7		56.2	39.4
2010^[16]	84.7	10,271	5.5	38.7	5.9	8.2	4.8	4.9	24.2	6.9		50.1	42.3
2014^[17]	85.4	10,136	5.5	36.2	4.9	7.5	3.4	3.5	18.6	17.8		46.6	33.0
2018^[18]	86.0	10,118	6.2	33.0	3.5	8.3	3.2	5.6	16.9	21.2		51.7	46.9

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Flen Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.^[19]

Flen is a poor municipality by lower Svealand standards.^[19] As of 2022 it was a rather segregated municipality with very high levels of ethnic minority populations concentrated south of the railway, while people of Swedish background are in a sizeable majority in the outer parts of town and in the countryside. Every district was beneath the median income of its southern neighbour Nyköping.^[19]^[20] In total there were 16,271 inhabitants with 11,959 Swedish citizen adults eligible to vote.^[19] The political demographics were 50.4 % for the left bloc and 48.4 % for the right bloc, with the left dominating the town and the right sizeably winning the villages and countryside.^[19] No district reached 35% college graduates and unemployment was high throughout much of the municipality.^[19] 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

Bettna

1,502

1,199

42.2

56.5

24,876

Flens C

1,359

877

64.8

34.2

18,802

Flens N

1,479

1,197

51.0

48.0

24,872

Flens S

1,554

893

68.5

27.5

14,764

Flens V

1,218

965

57.1

42.3

20,676

Flens Ö

1,284

963

47.3

50.4

23,164

Helgesta-Hyltinge

1,558

1,289

46.3

52.6

23,559

Hälleforsnäs

1,684

1,160

53.2

45.9

19,390

Malmköping V

1,546

1,104

42.4

56.6

20,273

Malmköping Ö

1,796

1,303

47.0

51.2

22,908

Mellösa

1,291

1,009

47.5

51.6

25,069

Source: SVT^[19]

References

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^ "Folkmängd och befolkningsförändringar - Kvartal 4, 2023" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. February 22, 2024. Retrieved February 22, 2024.
^ "Min Karta - 58°53'39.8"N 16°43'6"E". Lantmäteriet. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
^ "Min Karta - 59°12'18.3"N 16°56'13.6"E". Lantmäteriet. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
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^ "Riksdagsvalet 1985" (PDF) (in Swedish). SCB. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
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^ "Riksdagsvalet 1994" (PDF) (in Swedish). SCB. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
^ "Riksdagsvalet 1998" (PDF) (in Swedish). SCB. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
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^ "Valresultat Riksdag Flens kommun 2006" (in Swedish). Valmyndigheten. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
^ "Valresultat Riksdag Flens kommun 2010" (in Swedish). Valmyndigheten. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
^ "Valresultat Riksdag Flens kommun 2014" (in Swedish). Valmyndigheten. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
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^ "Valresultat 2022 för Nyköping i riksdagsvalet". SVT. 11 September 2022. Retrieved 3 January 2023.