Flen Municipality Flens kommun | |
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| Coordinates:59°03′N16°35′E / 59.050°N 16.583°E /59.050; 16.583 | |
| 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 |
Flen Municipality (Swedish:Flens kommun) is amunicipality in centralSödermanland County in southeastSweden. Its seat is located in thecity ofFlen.
The present municipality was formed in 1971 through theamalgamation of theCity of Flen (instituted in 1949), the market town (köping)Malmköping and the surrounding countryside, including a southeastern portion of the formerOppunda hundred that was split between Flen andNyköping municipalities. It also includes all of the formerVillåttinge hundred.
Flen Municipality is a lowland inland municipality that falls to 19 metres (62 ft) above sea level on the lakes ofLånghalsen and Torpfjärden in the southeastern area.[3] The highest peak is at 103 metres (338 ft) on the tripoint between Flen,Gnesta andSträngnäs municipalities.[4]
Figures fromStatistics Sweden, 2004.
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 aköping) already in 1785.
The following results are since the 1972 municipal reform onwards.
| 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 |
This is a demographic table based on Flen Municipality's electoral districts in the2022 Swedish general election sourced fromSVT's election platform, in turn taken fromSCB 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 neighbourNyköping.[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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