Flen Municipality
Municipality in Södermanland County, Sweden
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Flen Municipality (Swedish: Flens kommun) is a municipality in central Södermanland County in southeast Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Flen.
Flen Municipality
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| Coordinates: 59°03′N 16°35′E | |
| Country | Sweden |
| County | Södermanland County |
| Seat | Flen |
| Area | |
• 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 (30 June 2025)[2] | |
• Total | 15,295 |
| • Density | 21.278/km2 (55.109/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 |
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 |
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| 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 |
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| Bettna | 1,502 | 1,199 | 42.2 | 56.5 | 82 | 88 | 12 | 24,876 | 30 |
| Flens C | 1,359 | 877 | 64.8 | 34.2 | 63 | 52 | 48 | 18,802 | 25 |
| Flens N | 1,479 | 1,197 | 51.0 | 48.0 | 80 | 79 | 21 | 24,872 | 30 |
| Flens S | 1,554 | 893 | 68.5 | 27.5 | 50 | 26 | 74 | 14,764 | 19 |
| Flens V | 1,218 | 965 | 57.1 | 42.3 | 71 | 63 | 37 | 20,676 | 26 |
| Flens Ö | 1,284 | 963 | 47.3 | 50.4 | 74 | 66 | 34 | 23,164 | 31 |
| Helgesta-Hyltinge | 1,558 | 1,289 | 46.3 | 52.6 | 82 | 85 | 15 | 23,559 | 34 |
| Hälleforsnäs | 1,684 | 1,160 | 53.2 | 45.9 | 63 | 64 | 36 | 19,390 | 23 |
| Malmköping V | 1,546 | 1,104 | 42.4 | 56.6 | 68 | 73 | 27 | 20,273 | 23 |
| Malmköping Ö | 1,796 | 1,303 | 47.0 | 51.2 | 77 | 84 | 16 | 22,908 | 30 |
| Mellösa | 1,291 | 1,009 | 47.5 | 51.6 | 83 | 89 | 11 | 25,069 | 34 |
| Source: SVT[19] | |||||||||
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