Reported offences per 100,000 residents · 2025 · municipality
All offences reported in the municipality in 2025 (842 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 Lessebo?
49
Violence in public places against adults, reported offences per 100,000 residents · 2025 · municipality
Rank 272 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.
Overcrowding in apartment blocks (norm 2), share (%)
Lessebo27.5 %
Sweden15.1 %
Lessebo is above Sweden by 12.4 percentage points.
2025 · SCB via Kolada N07907 · rank 4 of 290
Reported violent offences (per 100,000)
Lessebo1,243.6 /100k
Sweden1,066.8 /100k
Lessebo is above Sweden by 176.8 /100k.
2025 · Brå via Kolada N07403 · rank 29 of 290
Year 9 pupils eligible for vocational upper secondary programmes, municipality of location (%)
Lessebo78.9 %
Sweden84.1 %
Lessebo is below Sweden by 5.2 percentage points.
2025 · Skolverket via Kolada N15424 · rank 186 of 282
Compare with nearby municipalities
Comparable values from the same period and definition. Sweden is the source’s official national figure.
Indicator
Lessebo
Emmaboda
Tingsryd
Växjö
Markaryd
Sweden
Municipal tax rate (%)2025 · SCB via Kolada N00901
21.8 %
22.0 %
22.0 %
20.2 %
21.3 %
20.7 %
Openly unemployed 18–65, share of population (%)2025 · Arbetsförmedlingen via Kolada N03937
3.4 %
2.9 %
2.4 %
2.5 %
2.6 %
3.1 %
Year 9 pupils eligible for vocational upper secondary programmes, municipality of location (%)2025 · Skolverket via Kolada N15424
78.9 %
78.9 %
74.0 %
84.9 %
72.6 %
84.1 %
Overcrowding in apartment blocks (norm 2), share (%)2025 · SCB via Kolada N07907
Most similar to Lessebo 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
Compulsory school, preschool class–year 9
18,256 SEK/inh.
Elderly care
16,282 SEK/inh.
Preschool, school-age childcare and other educational activities
10,031 SEK/inh.
Disability services
8,690 SEK/inh.
Upper-secondary school
7,118 SEK/inh.
Individual and family care
5,642 SEK/inh.
Infrastructure, protection and related activities
5,118 SEK/inh.
Cultural activities
1,764 SEK/inh.
Leisure activities
1,444 SEK/inh.
Political activities
1,346 SEK/inh.
Budget (plan)
No verified budget for Lessebo 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 Lessebo?
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: 8,289 people → 2025: 8,115 people
Municipal tax rate (%)2024: 21.8 % → 2025: 21.8 %(unchanged)
Median income, 20+2023: 299,300 SEK → 2024: 308,900 SEK
Openly unemployed 18–65, share of population (%)2024: 3.2 % → 2025: 3.4 %
Lessebo had 8,115 residents on 31 December 2025 (Statistics Sweden, BE0101N1). Since 2002 the population has fallen by 140 people. The largest urban area Hovmantorp had 3,208 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 Lessebo, 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 Lessebo
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
81.87 %
Seats
35
Valid votes
5,071
Blank votes
82
Result per party, municipal council election 2026
Party
Share
vs 2022
Votes
Seats
Social Democratic Party
33.50 %
–
1,699
12
Moderate Party
27.77 %
–
1,408
10
Sweden Democrats
12.13 %
–
615
4
Left Party
9.17 %
–
465
3
Centre Party
7.69 %
–
390
3
Christian Democrats
6.90 %
–
350
3
Other parties (4)
2.84 %
–
144
–
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 Lessebo kommun
Party
Share
vs 2022
Votes
Social Democratic Party
33.13 %
−3.3
1,643
Sweden Democrats
20.73 %
−4.9
1,028
Moderate Party
17.06 %
+1.6
846
Left Party
10.06 %
+3.4
499
Christian Democrats
6.53 %
+0.6
324
Centre Party
5.06 %
+0.4
251
Green Party
3.41 %
+0.9
169
Liberals
3.02 %
+1.4
150
AFSAlternativ för Sverige
0.38 %
+0.2
19
Other parties (9)
0.63 %
–
31
Total valid votes
100 %
4,960
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, Lessebo municipality had 8,115 residents according to Statistics Sweden (BefolkningCKM (000007ME)). Of these, 3,208 lived in the main urban area Hovmantorp (2023).
›How has the population of Lessebo changed?
Since 2002 the population has fallen by 140 people (−1.7 %). Source: Statistics Sweden BE0101N1.
›Which county is Lessebo in?
Lessebo municipality is located in Kronoberg County (county code 07).
›What is the municipal tax rate in Lessebo?
In 2026 the total local tax rate in Lessebo is 33.81 % (municipality 21.81 % plus region 12.00 %). That is rank 175 of 290 municipalities from lowest to highest. Source: Statistics Sweden OE0101.
›How does Lessebo use municipal funds?
Selected actual net costs in 2025 include Compulsory school, preschool class–year 9: 18,256 SEK per inhabitant; Elderly care: 16,282 SEK per inhabitant; Preschool, school-age childcare and other educational activities: 10,031 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 Lessebo?
In Lessebo, openly unemployed 18–65, share of population (%) was 3.4 % (2025). The national figure is 2.7 %. Source: Arbetsförmedlingen via Kolada N03937. Observation SF.KOLADATS-ARBETSLOSHET-18-65.0761.2025.
›How are school results in Lessebo?
In Lessebo, year 9 pupils eligible for vocational upper secondary programmes, municipality of location (%) was 78.9 % (2025). The national figure is 81.5 %. Source: Skolverket via Kolada N15424. Observation SF.KOLADATS-BEHORIGHET-GYMNASIUM.0761.2025.
›How much crime is reported in Lessebo?
In Lessebo, reported offences, total (per 100,000) was 10,266 /100k (2025). The national figure is 9,857 /100k. Source: Brå via Kolada N07540. Observation SF.KOLADATS-ANMALDA-BROTT-TOTALT.0761.2025.
›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: 30.4 % in 2025 (SCB BE0101Q2).
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Short source
SVERIGEFAKTA, “Lessebo Municipality population 2025: 8,115 residents”. Original source: SCB, SCB, Kolada. https://sverigefakta.com/en/municipality/lessebo
Full reference
SVERIGEFAKTA, “Lessebo Municipality population 2025: 8,115 residents”. Original source: SCB (https://api.scb.se/OV0104/v1/doris/sv/ssd/START/BE/BE0101); SCB (https://api.scb.se/OV0104/v1/doris/sv/ssd/BO/BO0101/BO0101C/LagenhetNyKv16); Kolada (https://api.kolada.se/v3/kpi). https://sverigefakta.com/en/municipality/lessebo
APA 7
Lessebo Municipality population 2025: 8,115 residents. (n.d.). SVERIGEFAKTA. Retrieved 2026-10-16, from https://sverigefakta.com/en/municipality/lessebo Original source: SCB, SCB, Kolada.
Harvard
“Lessebo Municipality population 2025: 8,115 residents” (n.d.) SVERIGEFAKTA. Available at: https://sverigefakta.com/en/municipality/lessebo (Accessed: 2026-10-16). Original source: SCB, SCB, Kolada.
BibTeX
@misc{sverigefakta_2026_en_municipality_lessebo,
title = {Lessebo Municipality population 2025: 8,115 residents},
howpublished = {\url{https://sverigefakta.com/en/municipality/lessebo}},
note = {Presented by SVERIGEFAKTA; original source SCB, SCB, Kolada}
}
