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Huddinge Municipality Huddinge kommun
Municipality
Huddinge town hall
Coat of arms

Coordinates: 59°14′N 17°59′E / 59.233°N 17.983°E / 59.233; 17.983
Country	Sweden
County	Stockholm County
Seat	Huddinge
Area
• Total	140.63 km (54.30 sq mi)
• Land	131.01 km (50.58 sq mi)
• Water	9.62 km (3.71 sq mi)
	Area as of 1 January 2014.
Population
• Total	113,920
• Density	810/km (2,100/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Södermanland
Municipal code	0126
Website	www.huddinge.se
Density is calculated using land area only.

Huddinge Municipality (Swedish: Huddinge kommun) is a municipality in Stockholm County, east central Sweden. Its seat is located in Huddinge (pronounced [hɵ̂dːɪŋɛ] ), which is a part of Stockholm urban area.

The municipality is, with its approximately 110,000 inhabitants, the second most populated in Stockholm County.

Geography

The municipality covers the entire central part of the Södertörn peninsula. More than half of the land area consists of agriculture, forests, hills, or lakes, and it contains 13 nature reserves.

Huddinge borders the following municipalities: Stockholm Municipality, Ekerö Municipality (by water), Botkyrka Municipality, Haninge Municipality and Tyresö Municipality (by water).

Localities

Stockholm urban area (part of) 86,802 inh.
Vidja 633 inh.
Rural areas 2,465 inh.

Subdivisions

Huddinge municipality is sub-divided into six districts:

Flemingsberg (pop. 14,924)
Segeltorp (pop. 11,870)
Sjödalen-Fullersta (pop. 22,304)
Skogås (pop. 13,783)
Stuvsta-Snättringe (pop. 15,847)
Trångsund (pop. 9,912)
Vårby (pop. 10,115), including Masmo

There are four territorial parishes of the Church of Sweden within the municipality: Huddinge, Trångsund, Flemingsberg and St. Mikael.

Natural reserves

Source:

Björksättra Peninsula Nature Reserve
Drevviken Nature Reserve
Flemingsbergsskogen Nature Reserve
Gladö Kvarnsjön Nature Reserve
Gladöskogen Nature Reserve
Gömmaren Nature Reserve, including the Fullersta kvarn Natura 2000 area.
Gömsta Äng Nature Reserve
Korpberget Nature Reserve
Lissmadalen Nature Reserve
Lännaskogen Nature Reserve, including Lissma-Kvarnsjö and Lännaskogen Natura 2000 areas.
Orlången Nature Reserve
Paradiset Nature Reserve, including Granby and Hanveden Natura 2000 areas.
Trångsundsskogen Nature Reserve

Lakes

Source:

History

It is believed that the history of Huddinge goes back at least 1,000 years, to before the Viking Age. When hostile ships approached the community, the inhabitants of Huddinge would climb to high locations and light beacons. Beacons were located around the entirety of Lake Mälaren. Huddinge's coat of arms has its origins in this tradition. The name Huddinge is believed to come from the Uddung's - the first inhabitants in this area, which during the Iron Age lived on the shores of Lake Mälaren nearby Vårby.

Split into two municipalities

After years of protests from inhabitants and after much debate, it was decided in 2007 to hold a referendum in 2008 regarding a split to make the eastern part of Huddinge its own municipality, named in published documents as Huddinge östra ("Huddinge East"). However only the inhabitants of eastern Huddinge would be allowed to vote. This caused a major political split of opinions as the political opposition wanted to see a vote. At least 60% of the inhabitants of eastern Huddinge had to vote "yes" for the split for it to be approved.

The referendum ended with a clear "no" to the split, ending the discussion.

Demography

Huddinge has a total population of roughly 110,000, or 4.5% of the population of Stockholm County. The average age is 36.7 years, but one-third of the population is under 25 years of age. This means that Huddinge has a slightly younger population than both Stockholm County (38.9 years) and the whole country (40.6 years). The population density of the municipality is increasing significantly. Since the 1960s, the population has doubled in size and is currently among the 14 largest municipalities in Sweden. The population of Huddinge passed the one of Gävle in 2008, and the ones of Eskilstuna and Sundsvall as well in 2009.

Population

Population development in Huddinge Municipality 1970–2017
Year	Population
1970	54,732
1975	62,576
1980	66,570
1985	70,209
1990	73,829
1995	77,384
2000	84,535
2005	88,750
2010	97,453
2015	105,311
2017	110,003
2019	112,848

2022 by district

This is a demographic table based on Huddinge 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 113,678 residents, including 76,114 Swedish citizens of voting age. 50.9% voted for the left coalition and 46.9% 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

Balingsnäs

1,943

1,271

49.0

49.5

35,218

Flemingsberg N

1,113

774

67.2

26.6

16,146

Flemingsberg S

2,071

867

74.8

21.1

5,478

Fridhem

1,999

1,428

48.9

50.4

35,663

Fullersta gård

1,466

1,097

51.4

47.0

31,970

Fullersta torg

1,282

1,106

50.2

49.0

26,979

Fållan-Nytorp

2,182

1,522

47.5

51.4

33,837

Gladökvarn-Lissma

1,565

1,149

35.8

63.0

29,947

Glömsta N

1,635

973

39.0

59.1

31,531

Glömsta S

1,574

1,002

43.4

55.4

32,887

Grantorp N

1,863

1,131

68.3

20.8

17,323

Grantorp Ö

2,256

1,177

65.7

28.9

19,095

Haga

1,610

1,079

63.6

31.6

17,901

Hammartorp

1,774

1,288

49.9

49.0

26,199

Huddinge C

1,516

1,182

58.4

38.8

21,683

Hörningsnäs

1,765

1,195

51.8

47.4

35,511

Juringe

1,830

1,358

43.6

55.7

33,562

Kråkvik-Kungens kurva

2,399

1,611

47.0

51.6

31,737

Kvarnbergsplan

1,343

1,040

52.3

46.2

26,868

Kynäs

2,296

1,614

44.7

54.4

35,322

Källbrink

1,639

1,137

44.5

54.9

39,751

Kästa

1,492

944

47.5

49.8

26,206

Länna

2,624

1,675

38.0

59.8

32,394

Milsten

1,795

1,217

49.6

49.4

35,722

Myrstuguberget

1,127

740

60.2

35.1

22,543

Myrängen-Högmora

2,566

1,716

46.0

53.2

35,310

Paradisbacken

1,615

1,354

48.5

49.8

26,617

Segeltorp C

1,678

1,221

50.4

48.6

35,398

Segersminne

1,413

1,052

53.2

46.4

32,054

Sjöängen

1,742

1,179

41.1

57.7

42,174

Skogsäng

2,133

1,539

52.9

45.7

36,537

Smista V

1,595

1,073

49.1

48.3

29,325

Smista Ö

2,135

1,408

46.2

52.1

30,470

Snättringe gård

1,603

1,162

45.8

53.7

40,517

Solgård

2,069

1,420

47.4

51.6

33,495

Stensängen

1,416

956

52.5

46.4

37,573

Stortorp

1,794

1,256

42.7

56.3

34,463

Storängen

1,301

1,067

48.5

49.1

31,086

Stuvsta C

1,519

1,083

52.6

46.8

33,072

Stuvsta gård

1,580

1,107

49.6

48.9

34,869

Sörskogen

1,271

897

44.2

54.8

32,151

Tomtberga N

1,626

1,198

49.3

48.0

26,507

Tomtberga S

1,664

1,292

55.6

42.7

24,981

Trångsund C

1,859

1,389

53.1

45.2

23,365

Utsälje

1,927

1,355

40.3

59.0

37,806

Utsälje C

1,622

1,178

46.9

52.1

33,233

Vidja-Mellansjö

1,714

1,165

40.6

58.1

31,900

Vistaberg

2,734

1,482

49.7

49.2

41,268

Visättra

1,631

914

63.7

32.0

22,974

Visättra V

1,963

1,385

66.0

29.1

17,287

Visättra Ö

1,839

1,066

64.6

31.2

20,807

Visättra-Björnkulla

1,315

773

60.6

36.0

19,655

Vårby gård

1,476

905

60.3

33.4

22,361

Vårby gård C

2,103

1,270

70.1

24.3

19,453

Vårby gård V

2,015

951

75.4

20.6

18,123

Vårby gård Ö

2,269

1,333

72.2

21.0

16,064

Vårdkasen-Rosenhill

1,895

1,282

46.2

52.6

31,959

Västra Skogås C

2,179

1,391

61.8

32.6

17,739

Västra Skogås N

1,860

1,186

57.2

38.9

22,571

Västra Skogås S

1,349

784

58.6

35.3

23,295

Västra Skogås V

1,737

930

60.7

30.7

21,121

Östra Skogås C

1,502

1,077

50.6

46.4

25,879

Östra Skogås N

1,996

1,399

48.7

49.3

30,515

Östra Skogås S

1,814

1,342

50.1

48.4

29,524

Source: SVT

Residents with a foreign background

On 31 December 2017, the number of people with a foreign background (persons born outside Sweden or with two parents born abroad) was 43,699, or 39.73% of the population (110,003 on 31 December 2017). On 31 December 2002, the number of residents with a foreign background was (per the same definition) 24,319, or 28.13% of the population (86,457 on 31 December 2002). On 31 December 2017, there were 110,003 residents in Huddinge, of which 32,190 people (29.26%) were born in a country other than Sweden. Divided by country in the table below - the Nordic countries as well as the 12 most common countries of birth outside Sweden for Swedish residents have been included, with other countries of birth bundled together by continent by Statistics Sweden.

Country of birth
31 December 2017
1	Sweden	77,813
2	Asia: Other countries	4,810
3	European Union: Other countries	3,797
4	Iraq	2,847
5	Africa: Other countries	2,812
6	Finland	2,381
7	Turkey	2,340
8	Poland	2,267
9	South America	2,019
10	Europe outside the EU: other countries	1,657
11	Syria	1,061
12	Iran	980
13	Yugoslavia/ Yugoslavia SFR Yugoslavia/ Serbia and Montenegro	878
14	Afghanistan	762
15	North America	703
16	Thailand	585
17	Germany	507
18	Bosnia and Herzegovina	457
19	Eritrea	366
20	Norway	248
21	Somalia	235
22	Denmark	148
23	Soviet Union	123
24	Iceland	102
25	Oceania	81
26	Unknown country of birth	24

Schools

In 2012 there were 27 public schools and five independent schools. Huddinge also has five public high schools with about 3400 students combined, these are:

Huddingegymnasiet
Östra Gymnasiet
Sjödalsgymnasiet
Sågbäcksgymnasiet
Widerströmska gymnasiet

Public transport

Huddinge is served by the Stockholm public transport system. There are two stations on the Stockholm Metro and five on the Stockholm commuter rail system as well as large bus network. Some main line trains call at Flemingsberg.

2018 Election

Elections to Swedish municipalities are held every fourth year on the second Sunday in September. The 2018 election to the 61-seat council resulted in the centre-right Alliance of four parties (M, L, KD and C) plus two local parties (HP and DP) staying in power without a majority. The Alliance and local parties gained a seat since the 2014 election and maintains power. The three Red-Green parties (S, MP and V) are in opposition and the far right Sweden Democrats (SD) holds the balance of power but normally votes with the Alliance.

		M	L	C	KD	S	MP	V	SD	HP	DP	Others	Alliance & Local (M, L, C, KD, HD, DP)	R-G (S, MP, V)
Polling period	Polling agency	Alliance Parties				Red-Green Parties			Other				Alliance & Local (M, L, C, KD, HD, DP)	R-G (S, MP, V)	SD

2018 Election		24.0%	6.5%	5.6%	4.0%	25.5%	5.3%	8.7%	11.4%	2.8%	5.1%	1.2%	48.5%	39.0%	12.5%
2018 Seats		15	4	4	2	16	3	5	7	2	3	0	30	24	7

Culture

The municipality contains six public libraries, Södertörn University College and one of the campuses for Karolinska Institutet.

Kungens Kurva is one of Sweden's largest shopping areas. It hosts, among other things, the largest IKEA store in the world, the largest cinema in the country, and a large shopping centre. In total, it generates a turnover of 6 billion Swedish kronor and has 15 million visitors per year. Mikael Akerfeldt from Opeth and song writer and pop artist Orup both grew up in Huddinge.

Sports

The most known sports club in Huddinge is the ice hockey club Huddinge IK, which has fostered a long line of well-known Swedish ice hockey players, such as Michael Nylander, Mattias Norström and Kent Johansson, and used to be a regular runner up in the Swedish second division and the qualifications for the Elitserien. Peter Forsberg also happened to make his debut as a senior player with his original club Modo Hockey, facing Huddinge away.

Twin cities

Notes

"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.
^ "Korta fakta om Huddinge" (in Swedish). Huddinge Municipality. Archived from the original on 18 August 2018. Retrieved 18 August 2018. År 2017 hade Huddinge kommun 110 003 invånare ...
"Naturreservat" (in Swedish). Huddinge Municipality. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
Huddinge Municipality, Sjöar och vattendrag
Nya kommunerna efter delning – Huddinge kommun Archived 2008-03-18 at the Wayback Machine
Huddinges invånare kan få folkomrösta om delning Archived 2007-06-26 at the Wayback Machine
SCB - Folkmängd efter region och år
^ "Valresultat 2022 för Huddinge i riksdagsvalet" (in Swedish). SVT. 11 September 2022. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
Antal personer efter region, utländsk/svensk bakgrund och år (Read 4 januari 2019)
^ Statistiska centralbyrån: Utrikes födda efter län, kommun och födelseland 31 december 2017 (XLS-fil) Läst 4 januari 2019
"Borgerliga koalitionen går framåt i Huddinge". 10 September 2018.
"Valresultat för Kommunvalet: Huddinge".
IKEA Group Stores - Sweden Archived 2009-04-23 at the Wayback Machine

References

"Nature reserves of Huddinge" (in Swedish). Huddinge Municipality. Retrieved 2008-02-24.
"Sjöar och vattendrag" (in Swedish). Huddinge Municipality. Retrieved 2008-02-24.

External links

Huddinge Municipality - Official site

Places adjacent to Huddinge Municipality

Huddinge

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