Klippan Municipality

Municipality in Skåne County, Sweden

Klippan Municipality Klippans kommun
Municipality

Coat of arms

Coordinates: 56°08′N 13°08′E / 56.133°N 13.133°E / 56.133; 13.133
Country	Sweden
County	Skåne County
Seat	Klippan
Area ^[1]
• Total	379.41 km² (146.49 sq mi)
• Land	374.32 km² (144.53 sq mi)
• Water	5.09 km² (1.97 sq mi)
	Area as of 1 January 2014.
Population (31 December 2023)^[2]
• Total	17,723
• Density	47/km² (120/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Scania
Municipal code	1276
Website	www.klippan.se

Klippan Municipality (Swedish: Klippans kommun) is a municipality in Skåne County in southern Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Klippan.

The municipality was created in 1974 through the amalgamation of the market town Klippan (itself instituted in 1945) with the rural municipality of Riseberga and part of Östra Ljungby.

Söderåsen National Park is partly situated within the municipality.

Localities

There were five localities in the municipality in 2018.^[3]

Locality	Population
Klippan	8,819
Ljungbyhed	2,168
Östra Ljungby	1,819
Klippans bruk	319
Krika	196

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Klippan Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.^[4]

In total there were 17,742 residents, including 12,988 Swedish citizens of voting age.^[4] 33.6% voted for the left coalition and 64.7% 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

Klippan N-Gråmanstorp

1,708

1,207

37.5

60.8

20,729

Klippan NÖ-Solslätt

1,680

1,202

37.0

62.0

23,484

Klippan SÖ-Nyslätt

2,266

1,667

35.9

61.8

20,850

Klippan V

2,107

1,496

37.4

60.5

19,950

Krika-Bonnarp

1,363

997

28.5

70.9

27,632

Ljungbyhed N

1,440

1,078

32.7

66.2

20,946

Ljungbyhed S

1,268

972

32.3

66.5

21,989

Riseberga-Färingtofta

1,258

986

34.1

64.6

23,404

Stidsvig

995

696

32.6

65.4

24,801

Storäng-Vedby

2,101

1,581

30.9

67.5

26,815

Östra Ljungby

1,556

1,106

29.0

69.0

23,065

Source: SVT^[4]

Buildings

The Church of St. Peter, designed by Sigurd Lewerentz, was completed in 1966.^[5]

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.
^ "Folkmängd per tätort efter region och vart 5:e år" (in Swedish). Statistics Sweden. Retrieved 2019-08-07.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ ^a ^b ^c "Valresultat 2022 för Klippan i riksdagsvalet" (in Swedish). SVT. 11 September 2022. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
^ Wilson, Colin St John (1988). "Sigurd Lewerentz and the Dilemma of the Classical". Perspecta. 24: 51–77.