Reported offences per 100,000 residents · 2025 · municipality
All offences reported in the municipality in 2025 (4,462 offences), per 100,000 residents. Reported offences are not the same as committed or cleared offences.
How much violence in public places is reported in Falkenberg?
167
Violence in public places against adults, reported offences per 100,000 residents · 2025 · municipality
Rank 120 of 290 ranked municipalities (2025) — highest number of reported offences per 100,000 residents. An order of reported offences, not of victimisation, safety or risk.
Reported offences of assault, including aggravated assault, committed outdoors in public places against people aged 18 or over (3 kap. 5, 6 § BrB Misshandel inkl. grov). Reported offences are not the same as committed or cleared offences; reporting propensity, police operations and local movement patterns affect the level.
Neutral differences from the source’s official figure for Sweden in the same period. Selection threshold: at least 2 percentage points, or 5% for other units.
Reported violent offences (per 100,000)
Falkenberg783.9 /100k
Sweden1,066.8 /100k
Falkenberg is below Sweden by 282.9 /100k.
2025 · Brå via Kolada N07403 · rank 181 of 290
Voter turnout, municipal election (%)
Falkenberg83.0 %
Sweden80.0 %
Falkenberg is above Sweden by 3.0 percentage points.
2025 · SCB:s valdeltagandeundersökning via Kolada N05401 · rank 82 of 287
Compare with nearby municipalities
Comparable values from the same period and definition. Sweden is the source’s official national figure.
Indicator
Falkenberg
Varberg
Hylte
Halmstad
Laholm
Sweden
Municipal tax rate (%)2025 · SCB via Kolada N00901
21.1 %
20.3 %
22.5 %
21.0 %
21.4 %
20.7 %
Openly unemployed 18–65, share of population (%)2025 · Arbetsförmedlingen via Kolada N03937
2.6 %
2.2 %
3.5 %
3.3 %
2.7 %
3.1 %
Year 9 pupils eligible for vocational upper secondary programmes, municipality of location (%)2025 · Skolverket via Kolada N15424
83.0 %
84.4 %
81.7 %
80.7 %
77.4 %
84.1 %
Overcrowding in apartment blocks (norm 2), share (%)2025 · SCB via Kolada N07907
Most similar to Falkenberg on share aged 0–19, share aged 65–79, share aged 80+, population, inhabitants per km² (2025), in order. An exploration aid — not a ranking of quality or a recommendation.
Measures: share aged 0–19, 65–79 and 80+ (Kolada), population on 31 December (Statistics Sweden BE0101N1) and inhabitants per km² (own calculation: population ÷ land area from Kolada, same year). Share aged 20–64 is omitted because the four age shares sum to 100. Population and density are compared on a logarithmic scale because they span several orders of magnitude.
Each measure is standardised (z-score across all municipalities with every measure used); the distance is the Euclidean distance with equal weight per measure. Equal distances are ordered by municipality code. A measure is only used if at least 90% of municipalities have it for the same year; if this municipality lacks a measure, that measure is left out rather than showing an empty list. Missing values are never treated as zero. No similarity percentage is shown.
Actual net cost per inhabitant in 2025, from Statistics Sweden's Municipal Accounts via Kolada. This is a verified selection, not a complete budget, and the values must not be added as total expenditure.
Actual outcome 2025
Elderly care
15,022 SEK/inh.
Compulsory school, preschool class–year 9
14,283 SEK/inh.
Preschool, school-age childcare and other educational activities
10,643 SEK/inh.
Disability services
8,784 SEK/inh.
Individual and family care
6,032 SEK/inh.
Upper-secondary school
5,115 SEK/inh.
Infrastructure, protection and related activities
4,871 SEK/inh.
Leisure activities
2,364 SEK/inh.
Cultural activities
1,377 SEK/inh.
Political activities
813 SEK/inh.
Budget (plan)
No verified budget for Falkenberg is shown. Municipal budgets are adopted by each council and published as documents; there is no common machine-readable official source for all 290 municipalities, so we do not copy figures that cannot be checked automatically. The budget is never mixed with the actual outcome above.
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What has changed in Falkenberg?
Latest observed period compared with the preceding period in the same series. A change between two periods — not a revision or a change of definition.
Population (31 Dec)2024: 47,337 people → 2025: 47,321 people
Municipal tax rate (%)2024: 21.1 % → 2025: 21.1 %(unchanged)
Median income, 20+2023: 324,600 SEK → 2024: 338,000 SEK
Openly unemployed 18–65, share of population (%)2024: 2.7 % → 2025: 2.6 %
Falkenberg had 47,321 residents on 31 December 2025 (Statistics Sweden, BE0101N1). Since 2002 the population has grown by 8,425 people. The largest urban area Falkenberg had 29,671 residents (2023, SCB MI0810).
Larger chart and tableForeign-born, or born in Sweden to two foreign-born parents, as a share of the population on 31 December. The 2025 observation uses Statistics Sweden's CKM disclosure-control method. Source: SCB BE0101Q2. Primary data, shown unchanged.
Share with a foreign background in Falkenberg, 2002–2025
Foreign background by age and sex is not published at municipal level by Statistics Sweden. Foreign background for this municipality is shown by area (DeSO) further down the page.
Households in Falkenberg
Register-based household statistics from Statistics Sweden. Shares are derived from compatible published cells within the same SCB table and reference year.
SCB applies CKM disclosure control to the 2025 figures; published values contain a small amount of controlled random uncertainty.
Municipal election 2026
Final · Source: Valmyndigheten
Turnout
83.27 %
Seats
61
Valid votes
30,805
Blank votes
514
Result per party, municipal council election 2026
Party
Share
vs 2022
Votes
Seats
Social Democratic Party
30.21 %
–
9,307
19
Moderate Party
21.67 %
–
6,674
13
Sweden Democrats
15.19 %
–
4,679
9
Centre Party
14.10 %
–
4,344
9
Left Party
5.68 %
–
1,749
4
Christian Democrats
4.43 %
–
1,366
3
Green Party
3.63 %
–
1,119
2
Liberals
3.17 %
–
976
2
Other parties (14)
1.92 %
–
591
–
Latest actual election: 13 September 2026 (final count). Turnout figures in Kolada series elsewhere on this page refer to an earlier election and are labelled with their series year.
Riksdag election 2026, result per party in Falkenbergs kommun
Party
Share
vs 2022
Votes
Social Democratic Party
28.15 %
−3.3
8,728
Moderate Party
20.82 %
+0.7
6,456
Sweden Democrats
19.24 %
−2.4
5,965
Centre Party
8.75 %
+0.3
2,714
Christian Democrats
6.35 %
+0.9
1,969
Left Party
6.00 %
+1.8
1,862
Liberals
5.10 %
+1.1
1,582
Green Party
4.31 %
+0.8
1,338
AFSAlternativ för Sverige
0.47 %
+0.2
146
Other parties (15)
0.81 %
–
250
Total valid votes
100 %
31,010
Share of valid votes cast in the municipality. ± 2022 is the change in percentage points as reported by the Election Authority for the same party code; "–" means no comparable 2022 value. Votes are shown on wider screens. Source updated 2026-09-19 · retrieved 2026-10-01.
In 2025, Falkenberg municipality had 47,321 residents according to Statistics Sweden (BefolkningCKM (000007ME)). Of these, 29,671 lived in the main urban area Falkenberg (2023).
›How has the population of Falkenberg changed?
Since 2002 the population has grown by 8,425 people (+21.7 %). Source: Statistics Sweden BE0101N1.
›Which county is Falkenberg in?
Falkenberg municipality is located in Halland County (county code 13).
›What is the municipal tax rate in Falkenberg?
In 2026 the total local tax rate in Falkenberg is 32.50 % (municipality 21.10 % plus region 11.40 %). That is rank 68 of 290 municipalities from lowest to highest. Source: Statistics Sweden OE0101.
›How does Falkenberg use municipal funds?
Selected actual net costs in 2025 include Elderly care: 15,022 SEK per inhabitant; Compulsory school, preschool class–year 9: 14,283 SEK per inhabitant; Preschool, school-age childcare and other educational activities: 10,643 SEK per inhabitant. These are outcomes from Statistics Sweden's Municipal Accounts via Kolada, not a complete budget and not figures to add as total expenditure.
›What does unemployment look like in Falkenberg?
In Falkenberg, openly unemployed 18–65, share of population (%) was 2.6 % (2025). The national figure is 2.7 %. Source: Arbetsförmedlingen via Kolada N03937. Observation SF.KOLADATS-ARBETSLOSHET-18-65.1382.2025.
›How are school results in Falkenberg?
In Falkenberg, year 9 pupils eligible for vocational upper secondary programmes, municipality of location (%) was 83.0 % (2025). The national figure is 81.5 %. Source: Skolverket via Kolada N15424. Observation SF.KOLADATS-BEHORIGHET-GYMNASIUM.1382.2025.
›How much crime is reported in Falkenberg?
In Falkenberg, reported offences, total (per 100,000) was 9,427.6 /100k (2025). The national figure is 9,856.9 /100k. Source: Brå via Kolada N07540. Observation SF.KOLADATS-ANMALDA-BROTT-TOTALT.1382.2025.
›Where does the data come from?
Population comes from Statistics Sweden BE0101N1 and foreign background from BE0101Q2. Local key figures come from Kolada (RKA) and Statistics Sweden via SVERIGEFAKTA's municipal data engine, and every figure carries its own observation ID.
Sources and method
BE0101N1Population by municipality, age, sex and year (31 Dec)
The figures on this page can be traced to their stated sources. Where an observation ID is available, it is shown with the corresponding fact. Read the method.
Foreign background: 20.1 % in 2025 (SCB BE0101Q2).
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Short source
SVERIGEFAKTA, “SVERIGEFAKTA”. Original source: SCB, SCB, Kolada. https://sverigefakta.com/en/municipality/falkenberg
