Kil Municipality

Municipality in Värmland County, Sweden

Kil Municipality Kils kommun
Municipality

Coat of arms

Coordinates: 59°30′N 13°18′E / 59.5°N 13.3°E / 59.5; 13.3
Country	Sweden
County	Värmland County
Seat	Kil
Area ^[1]
• Total	406.87 km² (157.09 sq mi)
• Land	359.73 km² (138.89 sq mi)
• Water	47.14 km² (18.20 sq mi)
	Area as of 1 January 2014.
Population (31 December 2023)^[2]
• Total	12,085
• Density	30/km² (77/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
ISO 3166 code	SE
Province	Värmland
Municipal code	1715
Website	www.kil.se

Kil Municipality (Kils kommun) is a municipality in Värmland County in west central Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Kil.

The local government reform of 1971 amalgamated Stora Kil, Järnskog and a part of Brunskog, thus forming Kil Municipality.

Kil means wedge, crack or similar in Swedish, in this case referring to a bay (old Swedish). The name is at least from the fifteenth century, referring to a bay by the small lake Hyn, where the church was constructed. The town later became the seat of the juridical Kil Hundred, which is known to have existed in 1426. The wedge is noted in the coat of arms.

The town is notable as the location of Sweden's first railroad in 1849.

Localities

Demographics

This is a demographic table based on Kil Municipality's electoral districts in the 2022 Swedish general election sourced from SVT's election platform, in turn taken from SCB official statistics.^[3]

In total there were 12,129 residents, including 9,297 Swedish citizens of voting age.^[3] 46.1% voted for the left coalition and 53.2% 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

Boda

815

652

44.2

54.5

24,568

Dalliden

2,154

1,790

51.2

47.8

23,320

Fagerås

861

643

36.0

62.7

24,403

Frykerud

839

671

43.3

55.9

27,757

Sannerud

2,381

1,705

49.9

49.3

20,871

Stenåsen

2,221

1,702

46.4

53.2

27,994

Tolita

870

653

39.9

59.8

26,106

Vikstad

1,988

1,481

44.8

54.9

29,054

Source: SVT^[3]

Sister cities

References

^ "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.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Valresultat 2022 för Kil i riksdagsvalet" (in Swedish). SVT. 11 September 2022. Retrieved 18 January 2024.