| Bräcke Municipality | |
| Native Name: | Bräcke kommun |
| Native Name Lang: | sv |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Sweden |
| Subdivision Type1: | County |
| Subdivision Name1: | Jämtland County |
| Seat Type: | Seat |
| Seat: | Bräcke |
| 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: | Jämtland |
| Blank1 Name Sec1: | Municipal code |
| Blank1 Info Sec1: | 2305 |
| Iso Code: | SE |
| Website: | www.bracke.se |
Bräcke Municipality is a municipality in Jämtland County in northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Bräcke.
The present municipality was formed in 1974 when "old" Bräcke Municipality was amalgamated with Kälarne and Revsund. The three former municipalities had been created in 1952. The number of original entities (as of 1863) were six. Due to the declining population in the area further amalgamations have been proposed, but rejected.
There are four localities (or urban areas) in Bräcke Municipality:[1]
| Locality | Population | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bräcke | 1,566 | |
| 2 | 758 | ||
| 3 | 492 | ||
| 4 | 405 |
The municipal seat in bold
This is a demographic table based on Bräcke Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.[2]
In total there were 6,167 residents, including 4,820 Swedish citizens of voting age.[2] 52.1% voted for the left coalition and 46.7% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.
| 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" | |||||||
| Bräcke-Bodsjö | 2,475 | 1,943 | 52.6 | 46.2 | 76 | 83 | 17 | 20,985 | 23 | ||||||||
| Gällö-Sundsjö | 2,494 | 1,890 | 51.4 | 47.2 | 80 | 87 | 13 | 23,615 | 29 | ||||||||
| Kälarne | 1,198 | 987 | 53.7 | 45.1 | 78 | 90 | 10 | 21,431 | 22 | ||||||||
| Source: SVT | |||||||||||||||||
One of the most famous people coming from Bräcke Municipality is the former middle distance runner and world record holder Gunder Hägg, who was born in the village Albacken outside of the town Bräcke.