Simrishamn Municipality

Simrishamn Municipality Simrishamns kommun
Municipality
Simrishamn Library
Coat of arms
Coordinates: 55°33′N 14°21′E
Country	Sweden
County	Skåne County
Seat	Simrishamn
Area
• Total	1,261.15 km2 (486.93 sq mi)
• Land	391.36 km2 (151.10 sq mi)
• Water	869.79 km2 (335.83 sq mi)
	Area as of 1 January 2014.
Population  (31 December 2023)
• Total	18,962
• Density	15/km2 (39/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Scania
Municipal code	1291
Website	www.simrishamn.se

Simrishamn Municipality (Swedish: Simrishamns kommun) is a municipality in Skåne County in southern Sweden. Its seat is located in the city Simrishamn.

The creation of the present municipality took place during the last of the two nationwide municipal reforms carried out in Sweden during the second half of the 20th century. In 1969 a number of surrounding rural municipalities were merged with the City of Simrishamn. The enlarged city became a municipality of unitary type in 1971 and in 1974 more territory was added. The number of original entities (pre-1952) is twenty.

Geography

The landscape south and west of Simrishamn is mainly open and flat farmland. To the north of Simrishamn the landscape is broken up by small forests and gently sloping hills. The coastline directly south and north of Simrishamn is stony. Stenshuvud National Park is located by the shore, within the municipal borders. Simrishamn is located in the Österlen area.

Vitemölla, Simrishamn municipality

Åkarps brydestua is a barn for flax drying from the 18th century in Simrishamn municipality

Farm in Rörum, Simrishamn municipality

Hammenhögs Kyrka in Hammenhög, Simrishamn Municipality

Malarhusen, Simrishamn Municipality

Localities

There are 13 urban areas (also called tätorter or localities) in Simrishamn Municipality. In the table they are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters.

#	Locality	Population
1	Simrishamn	6546
2	Kivik	1013
3	Skillinge	1005
4	Gärsnäs	955
5	Borrby	947
6	Hammenhög	908
7	Sankt Olof	640
8	Brantevik	451
9	Östra Tommarp	279
10	Vik	264
11	Vitaby	255
12	Baskemölla	238
13	Simris	235

Minor localities

There are 14 minor localities (also called småorter) in Simrishamn Municipality. In the table they are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2005.

#	Minor locality	Population
14	Östra Vemmerlöv	194
15	Gröstorp	190
16	Järrestad	170
17	Gladsax	128
18	Ravlunda	111
19	Sandby	105
20	Vitemölla	100
21	Södra Mellby	92
22	Örnahusen	87
23	Gyllebo	69
24	Vallby	67
25	Skräddaröd	58
26	Östra Hoby	55
27	Raskarum + Ljunglyckorna*	54

* Counted together

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Simrishamn 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 19,250 residents, including 15,679 Swedish citizens of voting age. 42.5% voted for the left coalition and 55.9% 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 % % Borrby 1,356 1,102 37.8 60.7 74 84 16 21,800 32 Gladsax 1,152 964 42.4 55.8 82 91 9 25,764 40 Gärsnäs 2,595 2,075 37.9 61.0 80 88 12 23,170 31 Hammenhög 1,599 1,212 37.3 60.4 80 85 15 24,855 29 Kivik 992 867 45.2 53.5 79 89 11 23,935 49 Rörum 683 551 51.0 48.2 83 91 9 25,642 57 S:t Olof 1,151 881 41.7 56.5 84 87 13 22,367 34 Simris 1,709 1,398 42.6 56.5 82 87 13 25,250 36 Simrishamn C 1,672 1,412 48.5 50.0 74 73 27 19,960 31 Simrishamn N 2,110 1,742 44.5 54.3 79 84 16 22,799 38 Simrishamn S 2,012 1,531 42.9 53.9 68 74 26 19,605 30 Skillinge 1,100 978 37.8 61.3 78 92 8 23,596 43 Vitaby 1,119 966 47.9 50.8 78 89 11 23,103 46 Source: SVT

Politics

The 2018 municipal election resulted in the following composition of the municipal council:

Party		Seats
	Moderate Party	12
	Social Democratic Party	11
	Sweden Democrats	8
	Centre Party	4
	Liberals	3
	Feminist Initiative	3
	Green Party	2
	Left Party	2
	Christian Democrats	2
	Österlen Party	2
Total		49

International relations

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

Twin towns — Sister cities

The municipality is twinned with:

• Barth
• Bornholm
• Kołobrzeg
• Palanga

References

• Statistics Sweden

External links

• Simrishamn - Official site
• Österlen - Official site
• Österlen & Ystad - Official site