| Tranås Municipality | |
| Native Name: | Tranås kommun |
| Native Name Lang: | sv |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Sweden |
| Subdivision Type1: | County |
| Subdivision Name1: | Jönköping County |
| Seat Type: | Seat |
| Seat: | Tranås |
| Unit Pref: | Metric |
| Area Note: | Area as of . |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone1: | CET |
| Utc Offset1: | +1 |
| Timezone1 Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset1 Dst: | +2 |
| Blank Name Sec1: | Province |
| Blank Info Sec1: | Småland |
| Blank1 Name Sec1: | Municipal code |
| Blank1 Info Sec1: | 0687 |
| Iso Code: | SE |
| Website: | www.tranas.se |
Tranås Municipality (Tranås kommun) is a municipality in Jönköping County, southern Sweden, where the town Tranås is seat.
The original entity Tranås was detached from the rural municipality Säby as a market town (köping) in 1882 and made a city in 1919. The reunification took place in 1951 when Säby was made a part of Tranås. In 1967 Linderås was amalgamated with the City of Tranås, which in 1971 was made a municipality of unitary type when all differences between rural and urban municipalities were abolished.
Tranås was once well known for its fur industry, but there is almost no such activity today.
There are 3 urban areas (also called a Tätort or locality) in Tranås Municipality.
In the table the localities are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2005. The municipal seat is in bold characters.
| Locality | Population | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tranås | 14,017 | |
| 2 | 789 | ||
| 3 | 282 |
This is a demographic table based on Tranås Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.[1]
In total there were 18,854 residents, including 14,204 Swedish citizens of voting age.[1] 47.1% voted for the left coalition and 51.8% for the right coalition.
| Location | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | % | data-sort-type="number" | % | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | data-sort-type="number" | |||||||
| Centrum | 2,342 | 1,857 | 53.4 | 45.7 | 65 | 66 | 34 | 17,961 | 26 | ||||||||
| Ekmarksberg | 1,556 | 1,234 | 52.3 | 46.3 | 71 | 76 | 24 | 21,683 | 29 | ||||||||
| Fröafall | 2,275 | 1,694 | 42.2 | 56.9 | 91 | 92 | 8 | 29,008 | 40 | ||||||||
| Junkaremålen | 1,969 | 1,601 | 48.5 | 50.8 | 89 | 90 | 10 | 26,423 | 42 | ||||||||
| Sommen | 854 | 651 | 38.5 | 61.1 | 81 | 89 | 11 | 26,441 | 26 | ||||||||
| Tranås Kvarn | 1,900 | 1,464 | 46.7 | 52.1 | 84 | 85 | 15 | 26,721 | 38 | ||||||||
| Tranås N | 1,620 | 925 | 52.2 | 47.1 | 62 | 51 | 49 | 19,534 | 26 | ||||||||
| Tranås S | 2,064 | 1,561 | 48.3 | 49.8 | 76 | 76 | 24 | 23,997 | 31 | ||||||||
| Tranås V | 1,989 | 1,506 | 37.5 | 61.5 | 87 | 95 | 5 | 25,861 | 30 | ||||||||
| Ängaryd | 2,285 | 1,711 | 50.6 | 48.0 | 73 | 79 | 21 | 22,854 | 29 | ||||||||
| Source: SVT | |||||||||||||||||
Music plays an important part of everyday life in Tranås. There are bands such as Rövsvett, El Scorschos, The Trick and Feel Flows. Tranås as a town still holds itself in high esteem since winning the annual national award as "music municipal of the year", despite the politicians trying their best to shut down important meeting places like Sobelhuset and be very anti-rock band in their stance.
Nowadays the best known band from Tranås is The Bombdolls, a punk rock band that regularly tours in Sweden and Germany.
Tranås musikkår, founded in 1934, is a symphonic wind orchestra with about 50 members between 15 and 90 years old.[2]
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