Ängelholm Municipality

Ängelholm Municipality () is a municipality in Scania County in South Sweden in southern Sweden. Its seat is located in the city Ängelholm.

In 1971 the City of Ängelholm was amalgamated with the rural municipalities Ausås, Barkåkra, Hjärnarp and Munka-Ljungby, thus creating a municipality of unitary type. In 1974 a parish from the dissolved municipality Östra Ljungby was added.

Ängelholm was until recently the home of a major airforce base. The base is now closed down and the premises taken over by the sports car manufacturer Koenigsegg.

A notable landmark is the UFO memorial at Ängelholm. It is a model of a flying saucer, situated on a site where a UFO allegedly landed 18 May 1946.

Localities There are 9 urban areas (also called a tätort, or locality) in Ängelholm Municipality.

In the table the localities are listed according to the size of the population as of 31 December 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters.

# Locality Population 1 Ängelholm 22,533 2 Munka-Ljungby 2,877 3 Vejbystrand 1) 2,764 4 Strövelstorp 1,012 5 Hjärnarp 871 6 Skepparkroken 705 7 Svenstorp 238 8 Margretetorp 211 9 Höja 200

1) A minor part of Vejbystrand is in Båstad Municipality

Demographics This is a demographic table based on Ängelholm 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 43,599 residents, including 34,038 Swedish citizens of voting age. 37.9% voted for the left coalition and 61.0% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.

Location % % Ausås-Strövelstorp 2,314 1,637 28.3 70.7 83 80 20 27,401 29Centrum N 1,756 1,489 37.3 62.0 83 80 20 24,047 34Centrum S 1,650 1,482 38.6 60.2 78 86 14 24,615 38Danielslund 1,915 1,648 35.3 63.6 82 88 12 29,425 53Hjärnarp N 1,624 1,248 32.4 66.5 87 90 10 28,195 39Hjärnarp S 1,487 1,073 36.5 63.2 86 87 13 27,092 35Höja-Starby 1,432 1,079 26.8 71.8 83 87 13 27,680 36Kungsgården 2,387 1,778 47.9 51.2 76 65 35 23,324 35Magnarp 2,179 1,721 35.3 64.2 86 93 7 33,654 58Munka Ljungby N 2,040 1,539 36.0 63.3 85 89 11 25,927 37Munka Ljungby S 2,277 1,610 35.7 63.3 83 81 19 24,679 31Nya Torg 1,688 1,397 43.5 55.6 78 75 25 21,846 32Pomona 1,836 1,406 37.6 62.0 89 89 11 31,354 54Rebbelberga 2,234 1,729 40.6 58.7 88 85 15 28,635 45Skälderviken 1,614 1,243 34.8 64.2 83 91 9 32,773 56Skörpinge 1,855 1,464 36.3 62.9 87 85 15 31,774 48Sockerbruket 1,735 1,677 45.2 53.7 78 86 14 21,510 35Södra Utmarken 2,462 1,833 44.2 55.2 84 89 11 28,046 43Tåssjö-Össjö 2,411 1,831 30.1 68.8 84 89 11 25,991 31Vejbystrand 2,262 1,846 39.8 59.0 83 89 11 27,453 50Willan 2,110 1,577 46.1 51.7 71 62 38 19,561 30Ängavången 2,331 1,731 43.5 54.4 81 77 23 26,522 43Source: SVT

International relations The municipality is twinned with:

Høje-Taastrup Municipality, Denmark Maaninka, Finland Dobele, Latvia Kamen, Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia)

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