Mönsterås Municipality

Municipality in Kalmar County, Sweden

Mönsterås Municipality Mönsterås kommun
Municipality

Coat of arms

Coordinates: 57°02′N 16°27′E / 57.033°N 16.450°E / 57.033; 16.450
Country	Sweden
County	Kalmar County
Seat	Mönsterås
Area ^[1]
• Total	941.04 km² (363.34 sq mi)
• Land	599.46 km² (231.45 sq mi)
• Water	341.58 km² (131.88 sq mi)
	Area as of 1 January 2014.
Population (31 December 2023)^[2]
• Total	13,134
• Density	14/km² (36/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Småland
Municipal code	0861
Website	www.monsteras.se

Mönsterås Municipality (Mönsterås kommun) is a municipality in Kalmar County, south-eastern Sweden, with its seat located in the town Mönsterås.

Mönsterås was an original market town köping, which in 1952 was united with the rural municipality by the same name. By the local government reform of 1971 it became a municipality of unitary type and amalgamated with Fliseryd and Ålem in 1974.

The municipal arms show the ridge which the town centre with its church has been situated on since the medieval age. The cross symbolizes the Knights Hospitallers, a monastic order that was built in the town in the fifteenth century and had a large influence on its development. It is an etymological design showing the origin of the name of the municipality: Mönster comes from monastery while ås means ridge.

Geography

The coastal line is signified by an archipelago with some 300 islands and islets, whereof two are nature reserves. On the island farthest from land, the lighthouse of Dämman was built in 1873; an automatic lighthouse has replaced its function, but the house itself is visited by tourists and conferences.

The geography of the rest is by some parts covered with forests, as the Småland province generally is. There is also some agricultural areas closer to the sea. There are two rivers flowing through the municipality towards to sea: Emån and Alsterån, that designate the wildlife and geography.

Localities

There are 5 urban areas (also called a Tätort or locality) in Mönsterås Municipality.

In the table the localities are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2007. The municipal seat is in bold characters.

#	Locality	Population
1	Mönsterås	4,783
2	Blomstermåla	1,599
3	Timmernabben	1,425
4	Ålem	1015
5	Fliseryd	762

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Mönsterås Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.^[3]

In total there were 13,242 residents, including 10,143 Swedish citizens of voting age.^[3] 43.6% voted for the left coalition and 55.2% 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

Blomstermåla

1,930

1,379

42.6

56.4

22,956

Fliseryd

1,443

996

34.5

64.4

24,737

Mönsterås C-N

1,200

836

49.2

49.4

19,733

Mönsterås C-S

1,472

1,197

54.4

44.0

19,921

Mönsterås Ljungnäs

1,314

1,086

42.8

56.4

27,951

Mönsterås N

1,428

1,131

39.3

59.9

27,609

Mönsterås S

1,271

972

49.7

48.4

23,957

Timmernabben

1,476

1,175

42.7

56.8

27,009

Ålem

1,708

1,371

39.8

58.6

24,053

Source: SVT^[3]

References

Statistics Sweden

^ "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.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Valresultat 2022 för Mönsterås i riksdagsvalet" (in Swedish). SVT. 11 September 2022. Retrieved 27 January 2024.