| Östhammar Municipality | |
| Native Name: | Östhammars kommun |
| Native Name Lang: | sv |
| Settlement Type: | Municipality |
| Coordinates: | 60.2667°N 40°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Sweden |
| Subdivision Type1: | County |
| Subdivision Name1: | Uppsala County |
| Seat Type: | Seat |
| Seat: | Östhammar |
| Leader Party: | Moderate Party |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| 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: | Uppland |
| Blank1 Name Sec1: | Municipal code |
| Blank1 Info Sec1: | 0382 |
| Iso Code: | SE |
| Website: | www.osthammar.se |
Östhammar Municipality (Östhammars kommun) is a municipality in Uppsala County in east central Sweden. Its seat is located in the city of Östhammar.
The present municipality was created during the local government reform in the late sixties and early seventies. Already in 1967 the City of Öregrund joined the City of Östhammar in a common municipality. It was the first time a former city joined another local government unit. By 1971 the new combined city became a municipality of unitary type and in 1974 more units were added.
In June 2018 the municipal council voted in favour of the building of Forsmark nuclear waste repository, with the final decision needing to be made by the Swedish government.[1]
All towns with over 200 inhabitants in 2000, from Statistics Sweden.
Another notable village is Forsmark (pop. 59), where the Forsmark Nuclear Power Plant is situated.
This is a demographic table based on Östhammar 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 17,497 Swedish citizens of voting age resident in the municipality.[2] 42.1% voted for the left coalition and 56.9% for the right coalition. Indicators are in percentage points except population totals and income.
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| 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" | |||||||
| Alunda-Ekeby | 2,138 | 1,651 | 35.8 | 63.0 | 88 | 94 | 6 | 26,935 | 29 | ||||||||
| Alunda tätort | 2,544 | 1,829 | 39.0 | 59.9 | 88 | 92 | 8 | 26,275 | 32 | ||||||||
| Ed | 1,588 | 1,211 | 42.4 | 57.0 | 90 | 89 | 11 | 27,948 | 30 | ||||||||
| Gimo-Hökhuvud-Vattensta | 1,611 | 1,240 | 44.8 | 54.3 | 88 | 86 | 14 | 27,335 | 23 | ||||||||
| Gimo V | 1,812 | 1,306 | 45.1 | 54.0 | 76 | 71 | 29 | 23,488 | 22 | ||||||||
| Hargshamn-Boda | 1,387 | 1,131 | 45.5 | 53.4 | 86 | 89 | 11 | 25,644 | 29 | ||||||||
| Kristinelund-Boda | 1,534 | 1,101 | 46.5 | 52.5 | 78 | 80 | 20 | 23,682 | 32 | ||||||||
| Norrskedika-Valö-Forsmark | 1,332 | 1,131 | 40.5 | 58.6 | 85 | 92 | 8 | 25,930 | 23 | ||||||||
| Öregrund N-Gräsö | 1,408 | 1,261 | 42.9 | 56.6 | 84 | 94 | 6 | 23,926 | 30 | ||||||||
| Öregrund S-Söderön | 1,785 | 1,450 | 39.7 | 59.9 | 87 | 92 | 8 | 26,182 | 30 | ||||||||
| Österbybruk-Dannemora | 2,076 | 1,584 | 42.5 | 56.1 | 86 | 85 | 15 | 24,980 | 21 | ||||||||
| Österbybruk-Morkarla | 1,667 | 1,315 | 40.0 | 57.8 | 85 | 87 | 13 | 25,694 | 20 | ||||||||
| Östhammars C | 1,470 | 1,287 | 47.1 | 52.3 | 85 | 90 | 10 | 23,710 | 29 | ||||||||
| Source: SVT | |||||||||||||||||
Österbybruk has a humid continental climate that is quite mild throughout the year, especially considering its northerly latitude.